Honey Maid ad features gay fathers, interracial family (respond back to criticism)

[brandonb]

It's a good thing I never bought anything Honey Maid, otherwise I'd have to start to boycott them now.

Stop pushing your agenda on me pls.

 

[CitizenKain]

It's a good thing I never bought anything Honey Maid, otherwise I'd have to start to boycott them now.

Stop pushing your agenda on me pls.

What agenda are they pushing exactly? People other then white straight people can raise families?
Actually, I can see why you are against that.

 

[MrPickins]

It's a good thing I never bought anything Honey Maid, otherwise I'd have to start to boycott them now.

Stop pushing your agenda on me pls.

LOL

Showing a commercial is pushing an agenda on you?

I suppose that's true, if the agenda is getting you to buy graham crackers.

 

[brandonb]

You know exactly what they are doing and why.

 

[brycejones]

You know exactly what they are doing and why.

What are you going to catch the gay from the graham crackers?

 

[brandonb]

What are you going to catch the gay from the graham crackers?

No. I just don't want to see it.

 

[BoberFett]

Someone going out of their way to complain because their ads feature gay and interracial couples puts those intolerant jerks at the top of the asshole scale. The company's response was about classy as you can get. :thumbsup:

 

[MrPickins]

No. I just don't want to see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control

 

[brandonb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control

I use it regularly. I'm going to cancel my Dish here in August when my contract expires.

 

[MrPickins]

I use it regularly. I'm going to cancel my Dish here in August when my contract expires.

Do it. It feels good to cut the cable.

I can't remember the last time I saw a tv commercial. :biggrin:

 

[brycejones]

No. I just don't want to see it.

If it disturbs you that much, you have much deeper problems.

 

[Victorian Gray]

No. I just don't want to see it.

Close your eyes.

 

[Slew Foot]

Crackers are a family food, maybe single people eat crackers too, but frankly, its a market we can do without.

 

[SlickSnake]

I can't comment on this topic until Texas Hiker chimes in first.

 

[sportage]

Thing with all the same sex issues, especially marriage, is that the issue "is" the issue.
Without the issue to bitch about, there is no longer any issue.
Take Iowa as example.
SS marriage is legal, has been legal since 2009, and you no longer hear one peep about SS marriage in Iowa. Never! Ever!
It's a huge non-issue ever since it was made legal.
So all this fuss about every SS issue boils down to simply all the fuss.
Once legalized, the fuss just goes away. Poof! Gone! Moot! No big deal.

So if those opposed to SS marriage and basic SS issues really want all this to just "go away", let the courts do their job. Legalize SS marriage, shoot down all the state bans, and so on and so forth, and all the fuss over the issue will never rear its ugly head again.

If the US supreme court legalized SS marriage tomorrow, the day after there would be absolutely nothing left to gripe about concerning any SS issue.
Everyone could calm down, wipe the sweat off their foreheads, get back to concerns within their own life, have a good nights sleep, and wake up the next day with any idea that anything had changed.

From then after the only time the issue of SS marriage or any SS issue would come into ones life would happen if and when:
Your child announces that he/she were gay.
You wife/husband announces that all along they have been gay.
You get an wedding invitation to that gay guy at work wedding ceremony.
You watch the Ellen show on TV.
Thats it.
Mail is still delivered to your house.
The sun still shines.
The sky is still just as blue as the day before.
You car still needs a tune-up.
You need to pick up more milk at the market.
And most of all, you can still entertain hopes at winning the Powerball.
(providing you purchase a ticket)

And THAT is the cold hard fact of legalized SS marriage throughout America.
Pretty boring, once all the fuss about all the fuss is no longer the fuss.

 

[Scooby Doo]

No. I just don't want to see it.

^ I wish I didn't have to see this.

 

[motsm]

I'm not offended by the ad, but it's ridiculous ham handedness is just annoying. Even the white couple has to have a 'hip' dad covered in tats to appeal to yet another demo. Yuck! The follow up is even douchier, like their company has anything to do with this ambiguous "Love" message, go screw yourselves and your dumb crackers.

 

[classy]

Just because my skin is black doesn't mean I am bound to support homosexuality. Being gay and being black is not the same thing.

 

[nageov3t]

I'm approaching this with a hefty dose of cynicism.

it seems suspect to me that I literally hadn't heard a single thing about the original ad... but people talking about this response to all the supposed criticism they got is everywhere. they're getting far more advertising bang out of this than the original ad.

 

[werepossum]

Just because my skin is black doesn't mean I am bound to support homosexuality. Being gay and being black is not the same thing.

It's often taken too far, but there are undeniable parallels.

I'm approaching this with a hefty dose of cynicism.

it seems suspect to me that I literally hadn't heard a single thing about the original ad... but people talking about this response to all the supposed criticism they got is everywhere. they're getting far more advertising bang out of this than the original ad.

I wondered about that as well. Supposedly this is a response to all the complaints. How can there be complaints before there is a commercial? I just figured maybe they had aired these things as part of earlier commercials and combined them into one big in-your-face advert, but it may well be a stealth campaign to generate publicity cheaply.

 

[MrPickins]

but it may well be a stealth campaign to generate publicity cheaply.

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(some would say shrewd, even)

 

[Fern]

I'm approaching this with a hefty dose of cynicism.

it seems suspect to me that I literally hadn't heard a single thing about the original ad... but people talking about this response to all the supposed criticism they got is everywhere. they're getting far more advertising bang out of this than the original ad.

I never saw or heard of the original either.

I've never seen the new ad referenced here.

But then I hate graham crackers anyway.

I had to google the company to find out what they made.

Yeah, free publicity.

Fern

 

[brycejones]

I'm approaching this with a hefty dose of cynicism.

it seems suspect to me that I literally hadn't heard a single thing about the original ad... but people talking about this response to all the supposed criticism they got is everywhere. they're getting far more advertising bang out of this than the original ad.

And that is the irony of groups like One Million Moms, they make so much noise about something it frequently gets more attention than it would have and usually doesn't turn out well for One Million Moms. Except of course they can use their "outrage" to drum up more donations to the FRC.

 

[werepossum]

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(some would say shrewd, even)

Yep, shrewd either way.