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Fox rejects another Super Bowl ad. NSFW

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zerocool84 said:
People that are going to go on that site were already going to cheat. That site does nothing wrong.
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The site does nothing wrong? Advocating cheating IS wrong. Period. You are right in that since people do cheat, the niche for the site exists, but that does not make it morally acceptable. There is nothing wrong with keeping an add the vast majority of society thinks is immoral, off TV. I say that is someone who really doesn't care much for censorship.
 
TheVrolok said:
The site does nothing wrong? Advocating cheating IS wrong. Period. You are right in that since people do cheat, the niche for the site exists, but that does not make it morally acceptable. There is nothing wrong with keeping an add the the majority of society thinks is immoral, off TV.
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Cheating isn't always wrong. But even if it is, morality shouldn't come into TV broadcasting.
 
AshleyMadison advertises on XM202 all the time. They're apparently based right here in Toronto. Cant say I condone what they do but that ad is pretty hilarious/weird.
 
techs said:
Yeah, for years you couldn't show a married couple in the same bed. Nor show a condom ad. And the President gets one little blow job......
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In the US sexuality is taboo and at the same time smeared all over.

In many places it's still illegal to have sex with anyone but your wife, and even then only missionary and even then only in your marital bedroom.

It's nuts.

In the end though over the course of a marriage you are looking at a a 20-30% chance you and/or your spouse cheats.

With shows showing all the married couples sleeping around and their kids becoming thugs, pimps, and hoodrats...there is no doubt why our society is going straight down the crapper. As a Capitalist nation, god forbid someone trying to profit from that and help steer like-minded people together.

10 years ago even, half our shows today would have had the viewers turning their noses up.

Today those same are drawn to becoming it.
 
TheVrolok said:
1) When is cheating NOT wrong?
2) Why should morality not come into TV broadcasting? That's a ridiculous statement, of course it should, it always has.
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1. Cheating isn't wrong when both members of the relationship know about it, I.e. in an open relationship or swinging
2. Morality is too relative and there are no set rules to it, so It shouldn't come into it.
 
TheVrolok said:
The site does nothing wrong? Advocating cheating IS wrong. Period. You are right in that since people do cheat, the niche for the site exists, but that does not make it morally acceptable. There is nothing wrong with keeping an add the vast majority of society thinks is immoral, off TV. I say that is someone who really doesn't care much for censorship.
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If you are confident in your relationship, a portal for those not should be no threat.

That ad was not advocating cheating as much as helping the person that now was presented with a spouse doing it. They may not be ready to divorce and with a cheating spouse you usually are not getting your own sexual needs met.

Going out as a married person for most is more than they can handle. Going to a site / place where it's married people looking for others or a single person looking for someone married, makes it easier.

I don't feel threatened by these things. If you don't want them, you need to get more active in reeling in all the media promoting it subtly.
 
TheVrolok said:
1) When is cheating NOT wrong?
2) Why should morality not come into TV broadcasting? That's a ridiculous statement, of course it should, it always has.
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It might be morally wrong but nothing wrong with them making a commercial about it. It's the network's right to choose not to air it but I see nothing wrong with them making the commercial. It's not illegal. If someone is going to cheat they are going to cheat whether it be on this site or not, these people are just making money off people cheating. We have shows like Desperate Housewives and Mad Men where everyone cheats on everyone.
 
neckarb said:
1. Cheating isn't wrong when both members of the relationship know about it, I.e. in an open relationship or swinging
2. Morality is too relative and there are no set rules to it, so It shouldn't come into it.
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1. Swingers can't cheat. Cheating implies it is NOT allowed, if it IS allowed, it's just business as usual.
2. That's absolutely ridiculous, every society has an overall agreement on a moral code (or at least a spectrum) that defines how that society lives. To say that it should have absolutely no impact on TV (a reflection of varying degrees) is nonsensical. This is not to say that niches of differing views exist which can be satiated, but to say that it shouldn't come into play is extreme.
 
zerocool84 said:
It might be morally wrong but nothing wrong with them making a commercial about it. It's the network's right to choose not to air it but I see nothing wrong with them making the commercial. It's not illegal. If someone is going to cheat they are going to cheat whether it be on this site or not, these people are just making money off people cheating. We have shows like Desperate Housewives and Mad Men where everyone cheats on everyone.
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I agree with this 100%. I have absolutely no problem with the site existing, with making a commercial about it, etc. I was simply disagreeing with the statement that canning this commercial is a continued example of the US' sexual repression and nothing more.

alkemyst said:
If you are confident in your relationship, a portal for those not should be no threat.

That ad was not advocating cheating as much as helping the person that now was presented with a spouse doing it. They may not be ready to divorce and with a cheating spouse you usually are not getting your own sexual needs met.

Going out as a married person for most is more than they can handle. Going to a site / place where it's married people looking for others or a single person looking for someone married, makes it easier.

I don't feel threatened by these things. If you don't want them, you need to get more active in reeling in all the media promoting it subtly.
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I'm not threatened by it, I'm simply saying I don't think it's a thing that should be promoted. I don't even mind the overt sexualization of mainstream media (except when it comes to the sexualization of minors - which is just as ubiquitous).
 
Yet another neckbeard spouts off bullshit and inanities in another fruitless attempt to denigrate the United States thread.

I would say your shtick is getting old, but it was old months ago.
 
damn, so many bent all out of shape by neckarb that they lose track of the thread.

Seriously guys this is just proving your lack of lives.
 
LOL....I thought this commercial was dumb, but it's not that bad at all. I think Fox denied it when they saw who it was from. I doubt they even saw the video. Can you really blame them? In this age of psycho parents who cannot control anything, do you think Fox wants to be associated with that company?
 
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