How do we respond to negative advertising? Publicly complain to the company in question? Write blog entries detailing the ad and your complaints? Editorials to the press? Do these things help?

Post suggestions here.

I'm inclined to say we should post info on contacting the companies cited here to let them know if we have an issue with their tactics. As Stephen Colbert would say, put them on notice.

I don't want to see this section turn into some sort of thinspo forum pretending to be something else.

i suppose maybe make complaints the company's that decide whether an add is suitable to be shown on tv... i think the one here is called Advertising Standards Bureau,

You mean you guys actually have standards?
haha, j/k..

I also like editorials and letters to editors of places choosing to publish them....

Maybe ill start with Oprah Magazing next month.... then health... then body and soul...

letters to the editors are good. I've also thought about petetions and pamphlets on ED's to put with them. If you need someone to help, I'm more than willing.

I remember a few years ago where I was walking through Paris, there was the "merde à la pub" (= "screw advertising") thing going on. they'd paint ads over with thick black paint or spraypaint real women's figures over those skinned down models.