There’s a bunch of flap going on, with parents’ groups and the morals police, over the ad campaign for the new season of Gossip Girl. The print ads show sexy photos with the letters OMFG over the image, and the TV ads cut between shots of the characters having sexy time and the letters OMFG. Parents’ groups are outraged by a bunch of letters, stating there’s only one meaning for the letters and that it’s offensive. A rep from the CW says the letters are open to interpretation. CNN has a mini-vid covering the “controversy.”

I think both points of view are silly. The rep is being disingenuous, and the parents are being hypersensitive. It’s just letters in an ad campaign. Personally this is one of those moments where I think parents should spend more time with their kids, if they’re so concerned, and less time going on media junkets.

Oh yeah, and I was really bothered by the assertion that OMFG is an acronym; it’s an initialization. Only initializations that we say as words are acronyms, eg: POSH, SNAFU, NAFTA, etc, not FBI, CIA, or OMFG. Sorry, but you all know I’m pedantic by now. (Editor’s note: I believe the term is abbreviation, as I can’t find “initialization” in my dictionary.)

Besides, what’s the big deal? Obviously OMFG only stands for one thing, Oh My Favorite Giraffe.

Post Script: How ironic that I use the wrong word while being pedantic about word use.  I meant initialism.