According to one employee from an ad network solicited by Tucker Max, everyone’s favorite rape culture scholar has been shopping around some ads for “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” based on his fratty “fact” catchphrases. Sample Tucker Max “facts”: “Sexism isn’t the same as misogyny, you stupid bitch,” and “The best thing about fat girls is heart disease.”

Apparently, some ad networks don’t like “facts”! According to the employee, the firm rejected the above mock-up, deeming it too “offensive” and “ignorant” for general distribution. The employee says that each of Max’s “facts” proved contrary to the network’s terms of service, as the advertising firm dos not tolerate “garbage.”

UPDATE: Max confirms that his “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” ads have been rejected by firms, and has this to say:

“Fuck them. I definitely had some agency pull some holier-than-thou trip a few weeks ago and I went elsewhere. I’m not paying them money so they can tell me what my ads are supposed to be like. Fuck them, and anyone who thinks they can tell me what to say or not say.”

Rarely am I moved by a feat of advertising, but this Amnesty International anti-domestic violence ad managed to resonate with me. The bus poster is equipped with a camera which uses some sort of futuristic technology to know when it’s attracted your eye. The gadget aficionados over at Gizmodo are moved as well, in their own way:

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AdFreak has discovered these sexualized advertisements for Davidoff cigars. Each ad is accompanied by a photograph of a male model appearing to orgasm upon catching a whiff of some fine Davidoff cigar smoke. The ads read, “Every Man Has a D-Spot.”

Finally, you may be thinking. Men reduced to sex objects in order to sell phallic shit, and not women this time around! [See female "O" faces in advertising: Exhibit A, Exhibit B, and a bonus nonconsensual orgasm ad in Exhibit C]. So is this gender equality? Is it regressive? Or is it just icky?

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Via Feministing, a photo of a new ad in New York subways for Manhattan Mini-Storage—and against Sarah Palin. When will the kitschy pro-choice advertisement strategy hit the District?