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Wordless Wednesday: A French Maid, Free Laundry, and Lunch

  • Posted July 10, 2013
  • by Mohana
  • Leave a Comment on Wordless Wednesday: A French Maid, Free Laundry, and Lunch
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Advertisement by the Grand Hyatt Doha

In need of laundry, lunch and ahem, some service? Here’s an example of a well targeted ad – the audience is men who are left in Doha while their families travel on summer holiday – but the creativity calls up the worst of sexism.

What do you think? Did they go too far? Or is this meant to be in tongue in cheek?

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      • Love Comes Later
      • Pearls of the Past
    • Books as Hana Rogers
      • MJ and the Dream
      • Everyday Wishes
    • Fiction
      • Coloured and Other Stories
      • The Opposite of Hate
      • An Unlikely Goddess
      • Saving Peace
      • The Dohmestics
    • Non-Fiction
      • From Dunes to Dior
      • I’m Veggin’ it
      • So You Want to Sell a Million Copies?
      • Mommy But Still Me
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      • Qatari Voices
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      • Qatar: Then and Now
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