They Pulled the Snickers Commercial from the Super Bowl

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Snickers pulled this ad, after many complaints, including a gay rights group and a human rights group... I thought it was dumb my self... Plus i was none to happy with there homophbic attitude

 
It was dumb, but I laughed nonetheless....

I didn't see that as homophobic, really....and I suspect we bring more damage to ourselves by complaining about these things then we do good to "the cause"....

Americans are growing very tired of not being able to say this, and not being able to say that....

To me, the protests over the Ikea ad several years ago WERE a lot more homophobic then that.
 
Scott,

Yes, you are right - knee-jerk political correctness is a problem in this society.
This was not quite the same thing.
I think it was not just the add (which I thought was kinda silly) but the follow-ups on their web site and this company's very long history of gay bashing which caused the reaction.
In my opinion, this one was not so much an overreaction as a justified response to the implication that gay behavior deserves to be met with violence.
Christianists need to be countered with eternal vigilance or we will all end up tortured and murdered by them. They are at their most dangerous when they mount campaigns like this one.
 
Thats what i was babling about.. If it was a one time thing or something it might be diffrent... But...
 
What happened in that particular IKEA commercial? I'm only familiar with the one now, which I rather like with the family with two dads.
 
I think that it actaually did some good. Rome was not built in a day,and neither was Syracuse. Two guys on a car could not have kissed first and then shared a candy bar on Super Bowl Sunday, instead two guys working on a car shared a candy bar and accidentally kissed. Perhaps they were in discovery. The message sent to America was sort of yuk, wierd, but they wanted to redeem themselves, stay in the relationship, yank chest hair and move on, perhaps to more Snickers. I do think that the media portrying gay as being weird and to be avoided is wrong, but it is far better than it used to be. Gays and homosexuality were invisible for decades in the media and especially sports. To have Snickers even broach the subject of men kissing was revolutionary, albeit rather late in time, and in a hetrosexual joking manner.
 
Ikea

I am not sure what the Ikea thing was in the 'States, but here in Germany for a while we had a fundamentalist Christian b++++ running their marketing who refused to let same sex couples use their family card, refused to run "gay" advertising as in other European countries, etc.
She got her Nazi ass canned, thank goodness.
We should have never left the lions out overnight. I TOLD Nero they'd catch their death of cold, but would HE listen...
 
Wow....

"I think it was not just the add (which I thought was kinda silly) but the follow-ups on their web site and this company's very long history of gay bashing which caused the reaction.
In my opinion, this one was not so much an overreaction as a justified response to the implication that gay behavior deserves to be met with violence."

Unbelievable.....I was COMPLETELY UNAWARE of what you have mentioned, as well as Mars' position....this completely changes things for me, not to mention the fact that I, of all people, was oblivious to the extent of the controversy.

Thanks!
 
If it had been 2 hot lookin girls....

Guys would of been drooling over it.

2 animals - PETA would of stuck their noses in it.

There's always "something" to bitch about.

IABM today (in a B**chy mood today myself)
 
If they would have been hot guys......Guys would have drooled over them...

I just don't like Mars Inc.. Period
 
It's Ok he was gay anyway.

A friend of mine was told by his mother that such object (when he accidentally found it) was a wrinkle machine. He put it up to his face. I guess when used properly it can cause your face to wrinkle up.

I personally like the Ikea commercial where the bed spring pops up/out and tents the sheet by the husbsand.
 
Boycotts

Does anyone here participate in them?

(I really don't, unless the offense is really egregious.)

Do you think they really do any good, in this day and age?
 
The following is just one person's silly opinion. No rea

~Plus I was none to happy with there homophbic attitude.
This is arguably a LEARNED response. Time and place of birth/residency are factors.

Pre Judeo-Christian "morality" the boundaries and pigeon-hole categories were not as distinct, if they existed at all.

In ancient Greece a true man was EXPECTED to have a wife AND a young man lover. It was believed that same-gender love was more intense and more intuitive. One really KNEW what the other wanted and needed. M-F was considered necessary but not all that intense. Anyhoo in exchange for the young man's affection and love you were expected to be his mentor/guide/tutor. They say this is how the culture became grand--so much was passed on the next generation. Not a lot was left...er-- uh--sweat-- behind.

Please don't shoot the messenger, I understand this will rock your world. Open your mind. See past your training. I don't make this stuff up. :-)

Bottom line is gays will probably always be a minorty and always disrepected to some degree. I never understood my mother's fierce dislike of the whole situation. Think about this. In an all-male hermetically-sealed female-free "world" a woman is "robbed" of her being and purposes. EUREKA! Once again she, like perhaps so many others, resents my freedom from convention and my self-sufficiency. I dont' need the other gender through which to attmept to be "whole". It is all already within.

Astrologically speakng, Virgo is female, Scorpio is male and Libra is marriage (right betweet them) attempting to make whole beings our of halves. [It ain't working so well anymore.]

And I'll say this: if you beleive procreative physical activities are the only valid ones, there is a whole realm of things you (yes you, right now STOP THAT!) should not be doing *WINK*

What do cemedians say? No man is 100% straight. When you watch porn you see another man's winky. Gay men, however, don't ever have to look at the Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and the Nile.
 
Today's trade is tomorrow's competition.

and next on the Discovery channel.......

OMG I was SO DRUNK, I didn't know WHAT I was doing last night.

uh-huh after the third attempt in an hour, I'm guessing you didn't hate it so bad.
 

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