Ad banner supported sites = titty?

So, people have long been suggesting that Adland should switch over to be fully advertising supported. Suggesting might not be the right word, more like demanding in some cases. I get it. I really do, it would be easier for all of us if this upgrade business wasn't around, and all you had to do was look at a site to allow money to rain over its creators. Even if I think it's quite tasty ironic to not ad-support a site about ads. I have a hatred for bad banner ads that I really can't explain - except perhaps by showing y'all. Disregarding the security issues for a moment, the targeting is atrocious. Sometime I feel like I'm the only straight female to ever wander out on teh intarwebs. I was reading up on British Airways advertising while a bikini-clad lady on the left (click image for larger view) exclaimed "blue and yellow has never been this hot!"
I was checking out an ad with udders just to get more booby-babes shoved in my face at another site. I have all my browsers, but one, blocking all banners ads just so that I don't have to feel like I'm the only female left on earth who doesn't wear a bikini all day. (Even though, quite frankly it is hot enough around here right now to warrant that fashion statement and I wouldn't mind at all)

Am I the only one who sees this? As if banner ads aren't annoying enough - why the hell aren't they targeted better?

And by targeted better I don't mean "read my computer to figure out if I'm male or female" but who on earth gives a toss about advertising BUT ad people?

Wouldn't that be the perfect place to advertise related companies? Is this only something that happens to ad-sites that try to make the most dosh out of their banners and this they avoid "classy" banner groups with stuff we (I) might want like all the ads seen on the Deck network?

To avoid random mammaries, I'm going to have to install banner-ad-killers on the browser that I leave open just in the once-in-a-blue-moon chance I might see a good banner ad.
I like advertising for crying out loud, but not on the internet. I feel like I'm always walking through my old hood, the Red Light District in Amsterdam. There's a reason I moved away from there, and it wasn't just because the shower-wall suddenly carried an electric current one day. If banner ad networks don't solve this issue soon, banner ads will go the way of spam mail and be blocked in the future.

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