Photo by Troy Crosby.

Photo by Troy Crosby.

A few days ago, Metro caught some serious flak after University of Maryland graduate student Lucy Westcott tweeted this picture of a sexist Metro Forward ad.

But of course, Metro is an equal opportunity offender. Here’s a male version of the ad, which suggest that all men want to talk about is sports. Because, duh, did you see that game last night???

DCist reader Troy Crosby sent in the photo he snapped at the Silver Spring Metro station of the male version of the offending ad. But it gets worse. As the National Women’s Law Center notes, the only one one of these ads that isn’t completely offensive is one that depicts a conversation between two white males.

NWLC’s Yumhee Park writes that “what shocks and enrages me is that the people responsible for these advertisements seem to be REALLY underestimating their target audience which is presumably D.C. professionals of all genders, races, and income.” NWLC’s Becka Wall agrees, saying that “women don’t only want to talk about shoes, black men don’t only want to talk about sports. The idea that women and minorities are the only people in these ads requesting to talk about more ‘frivolous’ things is insulting, and plays into sexist and racist stereotypes that these communities have worked for years to disprove.”

Still, Metro stands behind the ads, and says that the “shoes” ad was created and approved by women.

I could go on for paragraphs about everything that’s wrong with these Metro ads and how poorly WMATA has handled the blowback surrounding them but, you know, I’d rather just talk about sports.