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Wicked advertisers
Mar. 7th, 2006 07:33 amMy friends at the American Family Association are once again incensed by the wickedness of advertisers. This time it's Dentyne gum that is drawing their ire.
Dentyne have a TV commercial running (which I have not yet seen) which sets up a situation with a guy and two women at a party. The catch is the commercial has no ending. Instead, they urge you to go to their website www.dentyne.com and vote on one of four possible endings. You can watch the initial part of the commercial, and the four alternate endings, at the site.
Well, horror of horrors, ending number four shows "two lesbians engaged in a passionate kiss". The AFA goes on to warn their members to avoid clicking that link for fear of being outraged and disgusted by the content. It then urges them to take action by emailing Dentyne with their protest.
The AFA deliberately makes their 'complaint' pages salacious to appeal to all the closeted people on their list - I'm quite sure many only sign up to the mailing list so that they have an excuse to look at the ads!
Sadly, the AFA continues to win major victories, pressurizing companies into dropping ads and program sponsorship to uphold the right wing's stilted view of morality.
In other news, I see that congress is 'outraged' at the actions of Fred Phelps's family, who have now switched to picketing the funerals of dead soldiers - I guess picketing the funerals of gay men no longer draws the attention of the media. The Phelps's are picketing because soldiers defending an America where gays are allowed to live openly are acting against God's plan and need to be destroyed. The thinking behind this is extraordinarily warped, even by Phelps's standards. He has not of course been any kind of Christian in decades - his interest is only in notoriety. It will be interesting to see if Congress will enact laws to prohibit such protests at the funerals of soldiers. It would be ironic in so many ways should they do so. We have been told for years that Phelps's demos are a part of our 'free speech' culture, and that is what our forces supposedly die defending. To prohibit such exercise of free speech at their funerals would surely negate that claim, wouldn't it?
Incidentally, the existence of Fred and his family is final proof that God does not exist. However, that they have been able to breed successfully also casts some doubt on Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest...
Dentyne have a TV commercial running (which I have not yet seen) which sets up a situation with a guy and two women at a party. The catch is the commercial has no ending. Instead, they urge you to go to their website www.dentyne.com and vote on one of four possible endings. You can watch the initial part of the commercial, and the four alternate endings, at the site.
Well, horror of horrors, ending number four shows "two lesbians engaged in a passionate kiss". The AFA goes on to warn their members to avoid clicking that link for fear of being outraged and disgusted by the content. It then urges them to take action by emailing Dentyne with their protest.
The AFA deliberately makes their 'complaint' pages salacious to appeal to all the closeted people on their list - I'm quite sure many only sign up to the mailing list so that they have an excuse to look at the ads!
Sadly, the AFA continues to win major victories, pressurizing companies into dropping ads and program sponsorship to uphold the right wing's stilted view of morality.
In other news, I see that congress is 'outraged' at the actions of Fred Phelps's family, who have now switched to picketing the funerals of dead soldiers - I guess picketing the funerals of gay men no longer draws the attention of the media. The Phelps's are picketing because soldiers defending an America where gays are allowed to live openly are acting against God's plan and need to be destroyed. The thinking behind this is extraordinarily warped, even by Phelps's standards. He has not of course been any kind of Christian in decades - his interest is only in notoriety. It will be interesting to see if Congress will enact laws to prohibit such protests at the funerals of soldiers. It would be ironic in so many ways should they do so. We have been told for years that Phelps's demos are a part of our 'free speech' culture, and that is what our forces supposedly die defending. To prohibit such exercise of free speech at their funerals would surely negate that claim, wouldn't it?
Incidentally, the existence of Fred and his family is final proof that God does not exist. However, that they have been able to breed successfully also casts some doubt on Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest...
