Pedobear Makes Awkwardly Appropriate Appearance in Florida Coupon Book
Categories: WTF Florida
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Having to explain Pedobear, a meme from the 4chan message board, to people unaware of it is perhaps one of the most awkward tasks, so we'll let URLesque do it for us:
Pedobear is a shorthand for saying, "You're being creepy about a kid." If anyone on 4chan posts a picture of a questionably young-looking girl in a sexy pose, someone will inevitably reply with a pic of Pedobear. Many times, Pedobear is added to a picture to point out real-world sexualization of presexual kids, but it's alternately shown as an acknowledgment of being inappropriately attracted to a child.In essence, the 45-year-old woman you see poring over a Justin Bieber magazine at the newsstand might need to be shown the Pedobear. Yes, it sounds kind of sick, but let's remember that Family Guy, a show on a leading television network, includes a pedophile character. These are the times we live in.
This admittedly risqué line of humor shouldn't be seen as condoning pedophilia.
However, pedophilic cartoons usually doesn't star in ads for computer companies.
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The Smoking Gun spoke with the publisher of the coupon book:
In an interview this afternoon, Hughart, the coupon book's publisher, claimed that the ad was designed by a female employee in her mid-40s who found the "Pedobear" image online while searching for clip art to include in the CP Distributor coupon. Hughart, who would not identify the designer nor allow a reporter to speak with her, could not explain why the art department employee chose to include a bear, of all things, in a computer firm's advertisement. Nor could he provide insight as to why the designer chose to put the letters "CP" in a larger type size nestled next to "Pedobear."CP Distributor says it will continue to run ads in the book, but we think the company might want to consider a name change.
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