Women... Property?

An advertisement recently published by Marsh and Parsons, a real-estate firm based out of London, United Kingdom, demonstrates the widespread problem in the advertisement world: objectifying women and being outright sexist in order to sell a product. This ad published in March 2017 to promote their real-estate agents firm, showed a youthful woman can be seen wrapped around an older gentleman with the caption, "Matching people and property in London for over 160 years." The ad sparked outrage within feminist communities and was removed after a massive amount of backlash over twitter…