Forum - View topicINTEREST: Shima Withdraws Official Backing for Pearl Diver Mascot
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2 Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
|
|||||
|
She'll also continue to be in use around the city, albeit in limited capacity and, presumably, in contexts unrelated to pearl diving.
Dunno about that...they are kind of skin-tight, and Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire does fetishize female divers a bit.
That sounds like a recipe for a quick death of pearl diving short of a generational resurgence by an unrelated group of people or scholars dedicated to doing it all perfectly authentically. I've seen hobbies and activities die in this way. I've also seen a hobby I'm personally into almost die until it caught the attention of young people into retro things. (Not that I'm old; I was more or less one of those young people who joined for a totally different reason.) Then again, money talks. If there's enough demand for these pearls, there will be pearl divers, even if they're not the traditional ama pearl diving. But really though, what were the ladies in the old guard expecting? For everyone to ignore the new recruit?
Wait, I thought the Playboy magazine was going to cease publishing. It's simply just moving away from porn? |
||||||
|
||||||
Ali07
 Posts: 3333 Location: Victoria, Australia |
|
|||||
|
Ah, so the mascot has been "withdrawn". The artist probably asked for this to happen due to some of the complaints.
While I can understand it not being a realistic representation of the pearl divers...but the fact that they are older people is a negative in and of itself. If your profession is made up of people that, on average, are aged 70...well, there's something wrong there. I understand that it is not an attractive job, but what are they doing to bring some attention to the profession to attract people to pick it up? Yeah, you can complain, but it is a bit pointless if you don't have an alternative to it, at the end of the day IMO.
It's sad. But only because of one thing. And that being, the old "gets caught with Playboy, says they buy it for the articles" joke no longer works. Saw an episode of FRIENDS a couple of weeks ago, that had that joke, and it was kind of sad. Further in the future, that joke in movies/tv shows will just fall flat. |
||||||
|
||||||
Hiroki not Takuya
 Posts: 2514 |
|
|||||
|
Here is the USA Today article on Playboy, still publishing, just no "fully nude" photos. Whether suggestively posing women in see-through stuff qualifies as porn I'll let someone else debate. I doubt PB will become a literary magazine anytime soon.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/10/13/playboy-magazine-nude-pictures-internet-porn/73856022/ |
||||||
|
||||||
Estelle the White Mage
 Posts: 51 |
|
|||||
|
It seems these Pearl Divers are quite out of touch in terms of advertisement. They hire someone in order to draw people to their town and its famous trade, but then throw a fit when they don't agree with how it is advertised.
The artist the town hired to promote their city did his job. He created a mascot that was to attract both tourists to their town, as well as expose people to their pearl diving. Would it make sense for Carls Jr. to put acne-ridden teenagers flipping greasy burgers in their television commercials, followed by closeups of LDLs clogging one's coronary arteries? All in an effort to accurately describe what the food product actually does? Or does it make more sense to bend the truth by putting supermodels eating the product in suggestive poses, all of whom probably have never eaten there or avoid fast food like the plague? If the pearl divers are upset that the mascot isn't "authentic" enough, then they should have drawn the mascot themselves. Surely they will go down with the ship they built (since a more authentic mascot will not have the draw the former mascot did), but that's the bed they make. |
||||||
|
||||||
TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5824 Location: Virginia, United States |
|
|||||
Just want to say I loved that analogy. Thanks. |
||||||
|
||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group