Moosehead pulls ad

Moosehead Breweries has been pressured to pull an ad:

After complaints from a feminist group and incensed customers, New Brunswick's Moosehead Breweries has pulled an ad that implied women should speak no more than 50 words a day.

The ad, which appeared in The Onion, a U.S.-based satirical magazine, read: "The average woman speaks 10,000 words in a day. Roughly 9,950 too many."

"It's offensive," said Rosella Melanson, executive director of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women. "It's saying women should not be listened to."

Just as a thought experiment, do you think there'd have been the same kind of objections if they'd flipped it around to say something like "The average man speaks 50 words in a day. Roughly 50 too many."? Or would that be seen as "transgressive" and "speaking truth to power" and "empowering women"?

Hat tip to NealeNews.