Super Bowl Ads
First I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. The only thing I like about the Super Bowl is that it clears all the buffons who think screaming at the top of their own lungs to hear their own voice off the local hiking trails. Most football fans are retarded morons and the beauty of the Super Bowl is that it keeps them indoors.
That said there is a contoversy surrounding the Super Bowl that I find interesting this year. Snickers made a commercial that does a really great job making fun of the stereotypical Super Bowl watcher. Two auto mechanics lips meet over a Snikers Bar and then they act like buffons to prove their masculinity. It’s not very funny, but it’ll get a chuckle.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) however was rather dismayed over the commercial. So dismayed they initiallized a campaign to have the Ad and the associated web site pulled from distribution.
WTF? The commercial was a cliche farce making fun of overly macho men who are insecure with their sexuality. How is this a slight against gay people? I’m sorry, but GLAAD and it’s supporters really need to get a grip. The commercial wasn’t making fun of Gays! It was making fun of homophobes.
The same was done by The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention who have openly critcized an ad by GM where a robot losses it’s job and then commits suicide. GM however hasn’t pulled the ad. For the first time in my life I think get to say, “Good for you GM!”
What disturbs me more than the obvious over sensitivity and motherlisness of these groups is what, in effect, they are really doing. While they might under some dellusion which requires medication believe they are looking out for the underdog or disenfranchised in society they are in fact doing damage to the cause of human rights and dignity.
By attacking ( with a straight face mind you ) these ads. GLADD and TAFSP are claims made by real victims seem laughable. I can hear my white trash freinds now, “Fucking faggots wanna make everybody gay!” ( this mentality is precisely why I don’t have those type of friends anymore ). Choosing to make a high profile battle out of a paranoid dellusion hurts the cause of Gay rights and creates animosity toward homosexual culture. Getting all worked up about a robot jumping off a bridge, well that’s funnier that the commercial.
Frivilous attacks like this do damage to the causes they are supposed to support and worse, they lend credibility to institutions which in many cases are engaged in extremely unethical practices.