Opera company apologizes for offensive ‘fairies’ billboard

[spaminator]

Opera company apologizes for offensive ‘fairies’ billboard
QMI Agency
First posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 09:44 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:37 AM EDT
A Newfoundland and Labrador opera company has apologized after posting billboards for its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that read: "Filled with more fairies than St. John's on Pride Day."
Some people took to Twitter and Facebook to complain about the billboards.
"To me, it's insensitive and offensive to the gay community," Twitter user @momolive82 wrote.
"Opera on the Avalon billboard about fairies is hurtful and unacceptable. They should be ashamed of themselves," @Adamq112 wrote.
The company apologized on Facebook.
"The campaign was meant to be tongue in cheek and we certainly did not mean to offend. We will be changing the billboards immediately," Opera on the Avalon said.
But some people didn't have a problem with the billboard.
"Leave it up. It is a great ad," Daisy Drudge-Oliver wrote under the company's apology. "It's funny and a good line."

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[relic]

Every time you knuckle under to the uber sensitive, it makes it easier the next time. Leave the ****er up !

 

[Blackleaf]

Filled with more fairies than the Village People reciting A Midsummer Night's Dream on Canal Street.

 

[Twila]

Filled with more fairies than the Village People reciting A Midsummer Night's Dream on Canal Street.

They should have gone with this. Maybe you could sell this descriptor to them.

 

[Sal]

poster was awesome...

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Filled with more Fairies than Walter's Wettest Dream!

Go ahead and RED me Walt, it'll be worth the chuckle.

 

[shadowshiv]

Oh how they weep for those who have been oh so slighted by what was obviously a tongue-in-cheek billboard. There was no malice in it, and no ill-intent. So why did they try to find some where none existed? Grow some thicker skin people!

 

[BornRuff]

Oh how they weep for those who have been oh so slighted by what was obviously a tongue-in-cheek billboard. There was no malice in it, and no ill-intent. So why did they try to find some where none existed? Grow some thicker skin people!

At the same time, I have a hard time believing that the people who thought up that billboard didn't expect that it would make some people upset.

Either they did it to get more attention or they are too dumb to realize how people would react to this. Either way, it is hard to feel bad for them.