I’ll be attending the BlogHer Conference at the Westin in San Francisco from July 18 - 20 with a few of my colleagues. I was perusing the site this morning and stumbled upon a rather ironic ad being served on their site for WeightWatchers.

Seems odd to me that an event who’s vision includes ‘creat[ing] opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community, and economic empowerment’ shouldn’t succumb to serving ads focused on weight loss and doubting one’s self image.

I’m no feminist - seeing this banner ad elicits more of a giggle than blind rage - but I still found it rather sad that the event producers, proponents of female communities, are serving up targeted ads like these.