Boycott homophobic Mars/Snickers

[Svenskaflicka]

I predict a Scary Movie V where two guys eat a Snickers and then jump each other and start humping like dogs in heat.

They DID make a parody of Brokeback Mountain...

 

[Captain Midnight]

Planes Trains and Automobiles

As a female who's on the lesbian side of bisexuality, I laughed my ass off at the commercial. I thought it was hilarious. I didn't see the rest but I'm sure, like most things in the media, the "reactions" were probably edited and blown completely out of proportion.

In the movie of that title, from the late 1980s or so, Steve Martin and John Candy are two Chicago guys who are forced to travel together, even though the prissy Martin can't stand the effusive Candy. They share a hotel room several times. The first one has Martin waking up first to find Candy, obviously dreaming, cuddled up next to him with an arm around him on his chest. Martin awakes Candy and asks:

"Where's your other hand?"

Candy: "Between two pillows."

Martin: "THOSE ... AREN'T ... PILLLOOOOWWWSSSS!"

Both men jump up, shake their heads and their hands, bluster, and grunt "How about them Bears!" and other super-macho stuff. The audiences roared. They even had it in the TV commercials.

The point of the commercial is the same as the movie: would you REALLY want to be in an, ahem, accidentally intimate situation with a near-total stranger? I'll bet Martin would have screamed just as loudly (although not as funny) had he accidentally awakened with Sarah Jessica Parker. (Or she would have.)

Same with the Snickers kiss, although it really wasn't as funny (but then again, these weren't exactly professional comics).

 

[gauchecritic]

"That ain't right" and "gross" (did they say gross in the reaction or was that someone in this thread?) Did they show the A-football guys reaction to the whole ad or to just the lips touching? Maybe the entire concept of the ad 'ain't right'. I know I've pulled a face or two when I've eventually realised the (supposed) purpose behind an ad.
However, this doesn't really matter when everyone has already decided that the A-football players obviously are intelectually incapable of seeing anything other than two guys kissing. (ooh the medium has become the message or is that far too casual conspiracy oriented?)

Anyway... Archie Bunker (originally Alf Garnett) that is all bollocks. Very few examples of humour about racism or any ism purporting to 'characature' particular mindsets (I'm thinking of original 60's here and unfortunately assuming the US to be about 10 to 15 years behind europe in sophistication if not more) isms that are parodied in popular culture are more often than not aimed at or produced by a smaller than representative portion of the population. Only the sophisticates, educated or otherwise, will be wise to the irony (oops, I used irony on a US dominated web site) the rest of the population will be having their stereotypical (from both sides of the mirror) non-pc attitudes bolstered and strengthened.

So take my view: the A-football player's reaction was the sophicticated reaction. The gay-righters that got the ad pulled was the knee-jerk reaction. And that everyone re-acted (even down to free advertising for snickers on a zillion websites the world over) exactly as the ad company predicted.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"That ain't right" and "gross" (did they say gross in the reaction or was that someone in this thread?) Did they show the A-football guys reaction to the whole ad or to just the lips touching? Maybe the entire concept of the ad 'ain't right'. I know I've pulled a face or two when I've eventually realised the (supposed) purpose behind an ad.
However, this doesn't really matter when everyone has already decided that the A-football players obviously are intelectually incapable of seeing anything other than two guys kissing. (ooh the medium has become the message or is that far too casual conspiracy oriented?)

Anyway... Archie Bunker (originally Alf Garnett) that is all bollocks. Very few examples of humour about racism or any ism purporting to 'characature' particular mindsets (I'm thinking of original 60's here and unfortunately assuming the US to be about 10 to 15 years behind europe in sophistication if not more) isms that are parodied in popular culture are more often than not aimed at or produced by a smaller than representative portion of the population. Only the sophisticates, educated or otherwise, will be wise to the irony (oops, I used irony on a US dominated web site) the rest of the population will be having their stereotypical (from both sides of the mirror) non-pc attitudes bolstered and strengthened.

So take my view: the A-football player's reaction was the sophicticated reaction. The gay-righters that got the ad pulled was the knee-jerk reaction. And that everyone re-acted (even down to free advertising for snickers on a zillion websites the world over) exactly as the ad company predicted.

Well, Gauche, your comment about irony is a good point- this ad WAS an ad for the American public.

So while I truly wish your enlightened European standards were more prevalent here, they aren't. And we have to deal with the yahoos and puritans and kneejerkers that make up so damn much of the American public. And many of our kneejerkers like to jerk baseball bats around the heads of those they deem different.


and for the zillionth time, the football players reactions were what were featured on the website. There were no other reactions featured. Not one featured reacion said; "Look at those idiots, who cares about a little kiss!"

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Imagine a big, husky player going "awww... look at those two guys, sharing a little kiss... how cute."

 

[Stella_Omega]

Imagine a big, husky player going "awww... look at those two guys, sharing a little kiss... how cute."

I'd like to imagine that!