Article: EATERY'S ADS STILL A BONE OF CONTENTION

Insults are akin

to bullying

I WAS disheartened to see Sam Allis's views in "Quit crabbing" (The Observer, Page A2, June 15). The ads Legal Sea Foods has chosen to garner business seem incongruous to the attitude I am sure they would like to portray.

As a teacher, I am offended by terms referring to someone as ugly and to a female who "gets around." Those are terms bullies use.

The company's owner, Roger Berkowitz, is arrogant at best when he responds to criticism of an ad that says "This conductor has a face like a halibut" by saying he has seen T workers who also look like groupers, catfish, and flounder.

In the Ideas section of the same edition of the Globe, the "Uncommon Knowledge" ...

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