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The Hard Rock Hotel got in trouble recently for some of its billboards. I don't remember seeing them, but evidently they were too dirty. So tonight as I was riding the bus from work to school, I saw a new Hard Rock Hotel billboard - and this one definitely caught my eye. It labeled itself as "another clean, inoffensive billboard from the Hard Rock Hotel" and featured three little cartoon drawings: a pussy cat, a beaver, and two bunnies (one apparently about to hop on top of the other). I actually laughed out loud - one of those things I try to avoid doing on the bus.
Actually, I can understand people who don't want to look at overtly sexual billboards. I'm not all that fond of them myself and I really don't think the main thoroughfares through town are the place for them - generally speaking. But this is Las Vegas - Sin City. What on earth are people expecting when they move here? I didn't move here with any illusions and it's hard for me to believe any adult can. Yet people move to this town and then go on rampages, trying to get the "offensive" billboards removed. I don't think anyone has the right to move here from somewhere else and then try to tell the hotels, casinos, and night clubs - who do use sex, unapologetically, to sell their services - that they have to change their ways now because there are new people in town. Grow up, folks. You knew what you were moving into when you chose to move here - if it bothers you that badly, move away. As I said, I understand these people and I'm not fond of seeing such billboards myself - but I'm sure not going to go out and try to get them removed. If it bothered me badly enough, I'd move. As it is, no one has ever forced me to turn my head toward a billboard and held my eyelids open so I had to look at it. Not once!
DH and I talk a lot about leaving Las Vegas, but it won't be because of the "sex sells" billboards. We're 2000 miles away from home and every family member we have but my mom. I've lost an uncle, an aunt, a cousin, a stepson, and a great-grandmother while I've been here and not been able to go to one of their funerals. Other family members are aging and getting ill and still others are just starting their families (I have a step-granddaughter who's a year old now whom we've never seen). That's the kind of thing that'll drive us back home.
Actually, I can understand people who don't want to look at overtly sexual billboards. I'm not all that fond of them myself and I really don't think the main thoroughfares through town are the place for them - generally speaking. But this is Las Vegas - Sin City. What on earth are people expecting when they move here? I didn't move here with any illusions and it's hard for me to believe any adult can. Yet people move to this town and then go on rampages, trying to get the "offensive" billboards removed. I don't think anyone has the right to move here from somewhere else and then try to tell the hotels, casinos, and night clubs - who do use sex, unapologetically, to sell their services - that they have to change their ways now because there are new people in town. Grow up, folks. You knew what you were moving into when you chose to move here - if it bothers you that badly, move away. As I said, I understand these people and I'm not fond of seeing such billboards myself - but I'm sure not going to go out and try to get them removed. If it bothered me badly enough, I'd move. As it is, no one has ever forced me to turn my head toward a billboard and held my eyelids open so I had to look at it. Not once!
DH and I talk a lot about leaving Las Vegas, but it won't be because of the "sex sells" billboards. We're 2000 miles away from home and every family member we have but my mom. I've lost an uncle, an aunt, a cousin, a stepson, and a great-grandmother while I've been here and not been able to go to one of their funerals. Other family members are aging and getting ill and still others are just starting their families (I have a step-granddaughter who's a year old now whom we've never seen). That's the kind of thing that'll drive us back home.
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