HP Ad Redux

A few days back Helen wrote \”Check out a recent ad
by HP Labs, featuring librarian Eugenie Prime. Not sure
if this is a step forward or a step back . . . The Ad PDF
\”

It\’s been submitted a few more times, with
one person taking a slightly different view, one person
wrote:


\”The April 16th issue of Time has a very repugnant
ad by HP sterotyping
every librarian who ever existed – you might want to tell
them what you
think, pages 70-71, Not to mention that primpy frumpy
whatever is not a librarian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\”

I just don\’t know what to say on this one. In a
profession obsessed with image, what does This Ad say about us?