No Snickers in Gay Bars - another example of hysteria

[Yawn]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/06/business/main2441402.shtml

No sir, they'll boycott them - bet on it.

Thou shalt not find humor in gay issues!

Hate crimes my ass. Get a life.

 

[WSKY]

another in a long line of political correctness

 

[slappy4428]

Yeah, this one is a bit oversensitive... OK, a lot oversensitive...

 

[JayFarrar]

Wasn't that the commercial where the ending was picked online?
See that's what happens when people vote, bad things happen and people get pissed.

 

[Kaylee]

Okay, I've been mulling about it for a while, and I think it's time for me to stop lying to myself.

I, Kaylee, am coming out as someone who totally did not see anything homophobic about that commercial.

Which isn't really any news, except that I'm usually pretty sensitive to homophobia and other acts of Christofacism. But this?

Honestly, I just thought it was another dump, sophomoric Super Bowl commercial.

 

[ifilus]

db yawn....db

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/37266/

 

[Double J]

So much for the proposed ad campaign about a truck that takes the finished product on the road as it leaves Chocolate Town, bound for the nation's candy stores. They were going to call it "The Hershey Highway."

 

[dooley_womack1]

No Snickers in gay bars? Whatever shall Yawn eat, then?

 

[pressboxer]

But ... but ... Snickers satisfies!

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Wait. OK. It's not just the commercial that aired. It's also the online campaign where one of the "alternative endings" is a guy getting beaten up. (That's what got the Matthew Shepard Foundation involved.) It's also the NFL player reactions which range from sixth-grade Boys Room to pure displaced gay panic. I can see where gay folks might find the whole campaign worthy of public comment and action.
And being told to "get a life" by someone who finds it icky that you might want to, you know, get married is pretty damned hilarious.

 

[Tom Petty]

since kaylee is coming out, maybe he can offer up his snickers to yawn.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Wait. OK. It's not just the commercial that aired. It's also the online campaign where one of the "alternative endings" is a guy getting beaten up. (That's what got the Matthew Shepard Foundation involved.) It's also the NFL player reactions which range from sixth-grade Boys Room to pure displaced gay panic. I can see where gay folks might find the whole campaign worthy of public comment and action.
And being told to "get a life" by someone who finds it icky that you might want to, you know, get married is pretty damned hilarious.

I still think it's an overreaction. My first impression wasn't "it's two guys who think gay sex is teh gross", it was "it's two friends who don't think of each other that way." Hell, who's to say they couldn't have both been gay, but attached to other dudes?

And it was done so over the top that I'd think the message would veer to "ha ha look at those dumbasses overreact" as opposed to "hey, those snickers freaks have a point, we should beat us up some fagolas!"

 

[alleyallen]

Homophobia aside, this commercial was so poorly thought up, it instantly made me NOT want to eat Snickers. It has nothing to do with the guys kissing. There was so much negative imagry, though, that you almost forget about the product itself.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

I thought it was making fun of 'macho' men and their insecurities...

 

[zeke12]

The ad would have been better if at the end they shoved snickers bars up each others asses to prove they weren't gay. [tedhaggardfont/]

 

[Captain_Kirk]

The ad would have been better if at the end they shoved snickers bars up each others asses to prove they weren't gay. [tedhaggardfont/]

Saw some of "Deliverance" on AMC last night, and there's their follow-up commercial. Bring back the cheesy acoustic guitar guy from the previous commercial to strum the banjo this time. And can we get Ned Beatty?

Tagline: Snickers will make you squeal like a pig.

Putting in a call to the Mars Candy maketing department as we speak....

 

[zeke12]

The ad would have been better if at the end they shoved snickers bars up each others asses to prove they weren't gay. [tedhaggardfont/]

Saw some of "Deliverance" on AMC last night, and there's their follow-up commercial. Bring back the cheesy acoustic guitar guy from the previous commercial to strum the banjo this time. And can we get Ned Beatty?

Tagline: Snickers will make you squeal like a pig.

Putting in a call to the Mars Candy maketing department as we speak....

Need something to stick in that 'purty mouth'?

Grab a Snickers. It satisfies.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

"Snickers satisfies – Not that there's anything wrong with that."

 

[Mystery_Meat]

And Baby Ruth, once a powerhouse among candy bars, sees its status as America's premier scataphallic treat take a turn for the worse.

 

[Yawn]

Homophobia aside, this commercial was so poorly thought up, it instantly made me NOT want to eat Snickers. It has nothing to do with the guys kissing. There was so much negative imagry, though, that you almost forget about the product itself.

Well, that's for certain a moldable attitude the advertisers LOVE.

But I'd expect that 98 percent of beer drinkers drink Bud Light because they like the taste, not the comercials; 98 percent of Toyota owners bought the car because of the way it outperforms others and not a commercial, and 98 percent of people who plop quarters down at the vending machine to get a Snickers do so because they're hungry and like peanuts, caramel and chocolate. Not a damn $2.5 million commercial.

Fenian, we didn't need your remark. We already know you're an oversensitive liberal. If anyone was going to find a problem with it, it would be you. But Zeke? Hell, that comment would have gotten their top political brass all over YOUR ass.