{"id":392,"date":"2008-09-23T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-09-23T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:51:50","slug":"pearl-izumi-wtf-were-you-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Izumi, WTF were you thinking?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m flipping through Velonews and I come across an ad for Pearl Izumi clothing. However, the ad tells me nothing about the clothes, because it&#8217;s essentially (for lack of a better term) faceless tits in a jersey (see photo below&#8230; warning- may be offensive to some). Now, I&#8217;m not one to get worked up over some nudity in most situations, but this is blatant &#8220;sex sells&#8221; advertising. It&#8217;s objectifying and disrespectful. I find it to be somewhat of a slap in the face to the women like myself who take their sport very seriously, and don&#8217;t care to be percieved as some sort of jersey-meat for the purpose of advertising.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve emailed both Pearl Izumi and Velonews about the lack of taste in their advertising, and have encouraged others to do the same. Somehow, I doubt it will change anything. I&#8217;m &#8220;voting with my wallet&#8221; as well. Looks like I&#8217;ll be sending those gloves back that I just ordered. I encourage anyone who thinks that women in jerseys deserve better to do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>A scan of the page in question (courtesy of Mimi from the Team Estrogen web forum- I&#8217;ve made it small on purpose. Click for full-size):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/velo-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-393\" title=\"velo-girl\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/velo-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m flipping through Velonews and I come across an ad for Pearl Izumi clothing. However, the ad tells me nothing about the clothes, because it&#8217;s essentially (for lack of a better term) faceless tits in a jersey (see photo below&#8230; warning- may be offensive to some). Now, I&#8217;m not one to get worked up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-6k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}