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People Are Saying Bud Light’s New Tagline Promotes Rape Culture
People are criticizing the label, claiming that it promotes rape culture.
Update: The company said they “regret” the tagline in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
Originally posted on April 28, 2015, at 5:59 p.m.Updated on April 28, 2015, at 7:22 p.m.
After complaints, Bud Light has apologized for a slogan that appeared on some bottles in line with their #UpForWhatever campaign: “The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary for the night.”
The image was first
posted on Reddit
Monday night by user Ghosx9 and then picked up by the Consumerist.
By Tuesday afternoon, it started to make waves on social media for the company’s apparent tone-deafness when it comes to the role alcohol plays in rape culture.
Along with the gamut of other questionable decisions people make when inebriated.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, Vice President Alexander Lambrecht said that the message, one of 140 to appear on the bottles, “missed the mark, and we regret it.”
The Bud Light Up for Whatever campaign, now in its second year, has inspired millions of consumers to engage with our brand in a positive and light-hearted way. In this spirit, we created more than 140 different scroll messages intended to encourage spontaneous fun. It’s clear that this message missed the mark, and we regret it. We would never condone disrespectful or irresponsible behavior.
The beer company’s hashtag campaign has gotten them in
trouble
once before, when they encouraged people to pinch anyone not wearing green or “not #UpForWhatever” on St. Patrick’s Day.
After people
responded
with their own hashtags #UpForLitigation and #UpForThingsIExplicitlyConsentTo, a company spokesperson apologized in a statement.
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