Re: OT Fallout from Superbowl ad.

truegrit@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Nothing was being legislated. People complained, the company wisely
took the commercial down. Why risk losing customers and appearing
bigoted over a commercial? They did the right thing.

I also see why gay advocates would be upset about the commercial,
because it gave the impression that extreme reactions to homosexuality
are acceptable.

I can't - it was a natural hetero reaction and has nothing to do with
gays or gay rights and has nothing to do with a reaction to homosexuality
since that would require some homosexuals to react to. This was all
about hetero men and humor.

> Personally, I thought it was very homoerotic the way
the guy just started gnawing on the candy bar when it was put in his
face. And then their reactions were very typical of the homophobe who
overreacts because he knows that he's has something hiding in the
closet.

Their reactions were natural and not necessarily homophobic IMO, the
situation was unnatural in that nobody would have started eating on a
Snickers bar that was already being eaten by someone else - esp another
male.
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