that’s the stupidest move by gay-activists. give me a break!! i am gay and I thought it was hilarious! a litle sense of humor would do us good! we need to pick our battle.!

Here’s a way to get gay shows off your TV, Hate. It’s called the “off” button.

And BTW, I finally watched the commercial on the computer, seeing as how the Super Bowl was as unavailable here as the Aussie Rules Football Grand Final is in the U.S. Australians would find that ad bloody brilliant! I expect to see versions of it down here. After all, Oz is stuck with so many other retreads of American TV dreck such as “Australian Idol” and the local version of “Big Brother.” Or so I read in the newspapers. I’m a big fan of that button…

Response to Comment #52662 by Jenn:
Jenn,
Yes, there are more important issues, but this issue needs addressing, too.  By the way, what do you consider to be the more important issues, and just what are you doing about them?  And what do you mean by “get a life?” I work and have a social life, but I feel part of a full and enriched life is staying informed and getting involved in important issues, not just partying every night.

I think that we should all stand up and “B*tch”.
We let the “gay” people get away with all of there “b*tching” If they want it of they get it off, because they get offended “and we can’t do that”. Give me a break they need to stop b*tching. Other people like you and I need to stand up and take action. We let to many things go. All of them “Gay” shows offend me. I’m sick of “gay people” “Non believers” of getting there way all the time. People like me are going to start standing up. I’m going to start by getting some “gay” shows off the T.V.
Nate

you people need to get a life.There are more important things going on in this world than crying over a damm commercial.

I dont see anything wrong with the ad.  It was funny and people who get offended by it are just too touchy.

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I haven’t seen the Vikings commercial, so I can’t comment on it, but this commercial seemed to imply that if you don’t have enough Frequent Flier miles, you will end up among “primitive” people who will likely kill you.  This despite the fact that Europeans have caused many more deaths of indigenous peoples than vice versa.

Ridiculous overreaction—this is SATIRE.  Are we supposed to ignore that there are homophobes in the world?  We can’t laugh at them?  Gay rights groups are really just making enemies when they do this kind of thing.

Tim that is the Capitol One commercial! As far as the out rage of the commercial of Snickers go. I think some are over reacting. Its a commercial for crying out loud. Its acting. I would have done the commmercial if they asked me to do it. Why should they be punished for what they did. Thats like the lady getting Touch by an Angel off of T.V. because it used the word GOD...or the woman that got the Pledge of Allegiance taken out of our schools....we can’t say Christmas anymore because it has the word CHRIST in it. Well what about my right to say the word. Maybe we should make it where they can’t make films with cuss words anymore cause it offends some. Maybe we should make it where they can’t have sex scenes in movies. Maybe we should make it where they can’t have Will and Grace on t.v. cause it offends straight people. Suck it up and live life there is WAY to many IMPORTANT issues than fussing over OMG They offended me lets cause a riot.

I think that it was cool when they said do somthing manly. I can’t stad “Gay” people. they are gross.

Just curious, how many of you think someone would have complained if a gay person accidentally kissed the opposite sex and was grossed out?  Would anyone listen to that person?

OK...I am absolutely dumbfounded. I cannot believe people are upset by that commercial. The adverse reaction is a prime example of what I call “homophobia-phobia”. People are so scared of homophobia that they can’t see the commercial for what it was...a satyrical poke at the alpha-male! Actually, that is not true. I think the GLBTA (or whatever the hell it’s called) isn’t really offended by the commercial (I give them more credit for that...I believe their collective intelligence is higher than that of a clump of dirt). On the contrary...I believe they are just creating a controversy to draw more attention to their cause. Bravo! Very clever!

Bukko - Interesting that you’ve already posted twice here. And you’re anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, and anti-American according to your post.

Stuck by a “grungy” venue that has men in drag weekly and heavy metal music… yeah many folks are glad you moved. Keep your filth away from the church, the mosque, and civilization.

Come on people!  It is a TV add, nothing more.  It was funny.  Even my gay friends said it was funny.  They have more to worry about in life then their quest to make their lifestyle accepted throughout the world.  They find humor in the jokes, just like I find humor in blonde jokes or sexist jokes about females.  I even laugh at what the African Americans have to say about white people.  WHY DON’T YOU TRY LAUGHING AT YOUR SELF FOR ONCE!  We all have faults, if you want to worry about something, worry about our troops, the unfortunate kids in this world, or all the elderly people that are unable to care for themselves or being taken advantage of, or the freaks that want to kill Americans.  That is something to worry about.

Interesting to see how many comments a candy bar commercial draws—10 times the number of a non-Molly Ivins article. It must have been linked to some Christian or anti-gay website. Can any of you gay haters tell me which directed you to Truthdig? I hope you read other pieces on the site. You’ll educate yourselves.

Meanwhile, things like this make me ever gladder I emigrated to a country where no one gives a rat’s arse about who’s gay or who’s not. The kind of place where they have drag shows every Monday at the grungy pub down the street from me that hosts has bikeies and metal bands on other days of the week. And they all just get along. You Americans have NO IDEA how hung up you are. You and the Islamic fundamentalists—two of a kind.

We felt the ad was humorous. We do not see where it was offensive to any group. It fact, we liked it so much, it is posted on our website, at http://www.friendsofgod.info, and will remain there. If it offends someone, they do not have to visit our site.
We have found that there are extremists in every group that will use political correctness to further their agenda. We doubt those that did the screaming are representative of the gay community as a whole, but rather a small percentage.
Mars needs to find their intestinal fortitude and go ahead and run the ad.

God Bless The USA
The Regulator

Since when does satirizing rednecks translate to ‘anti-gay’?
Shame on Mars for caving to vocal minority critics. If you didn’t think it was funny, don’t buy Snickers. What is happening to freedom of speech, not to mention freedom of expression in this country? I guess we don’t need to worry about our government taking it....the PC special interest groups are taking care of it all on their own.

I wish they would have taken it off the TV as well.  I saw it as part of Superbowl advertising.  Disgusting.

Two guys accidentally kissing??  People are offended???  OMG.. good thing they did not show any scenes from ‘Deliverance’ !!!  I am sure a good ass raping while making someone squeal like a pig would have been an excellent marketing tool for Snickers...I can see it now!!  Just do what the DirecTV commercials are doing by taking actors reprising their rolls in movies.. and have it where Ned Beatty calls his rapist ‘Snickers’.. and says, “Snickers really satisfies”!!  Hmm… I may be on to something here..

Like the woman who kissed the cow said: everyone to their own taste…

Bukka—Racism is an unatural, learned reaction, sexual orientation is not. You can react to something based on learned feelings or innate ones.

Who are the companies reacting on behalf of?  Are there no people with backbones anymore.  It’s like all the fools who do something stupid, or are just caught at it, and next thing they’re in rehab...for whatever their “problem” is.  Where are tough people who stand up, own it and say..."yeah, I said that” or “yeah, I did that” and not feel that they must explain every word and action. People are sick of it.  Is everyone so afraid that they can’t be forthright?  I would be far more willing to support someone who was honest, than someone who tries the to claim they have issues which rehab will all take care of.  Bull---we all think things, we all have thoughts, and nothing ever will change it. 

IN FACT--more behavior like the fools at Snickers and others..is going to get them a nice fat boycott.  Lawyers don’t run this country yet--but with the fear of lawsuits like they are...one would think they do.  We had better watch out for this.  This is no way to live.  Men CAN flinch at seeing two men almost kiss and guess what...THAT’s NORMAL...homosexuality actually is not and no one is going to shove that crap down everyone’s throat. 

I am for one not going to accept it.  I don’t need to eat Snickers bars either---they’re full of junk that’s bad for you.  See ya!

Snickers is our favorite!

The majority of the comments are pathetic.
The point is this: WHY is it necessary to have two homophobic men attempting to eat the same candy bar in order to sell the damn product?

Yes, kids of all ages are watching the Stupid Bowl. Is this what they need to learn, that it is “disgusting” when two men “accidentally” kiss? Does anyone care about something called TOLERANCE for people who are not like we think they should be?! Perhaps it is amusing to some, but those individuals who fall for this crap are nothing more than victims of advertising appealing to the viewers basest instincts. Mars took the low road, no doubt about it. This is a perfect illustration of how degenerate American culture has become.

The problem here is that one of the men said “quick, do something manly!” Sorry, people, but I certainly find THAT offensive.

How ridiculous for MARS to pull the ad because it might offend some “gays”. The ad was funny and that would probably be the actual reaction to 98% of men who found themselves so close to another man. The problem here isn’t with the so-called homophobes, the problem is with gays who are way too sensitive.

SOME DAYS YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT?

OR SOME DAY SOME NUT FEELS YOU????

As a gay man, I was not offended by the two guys reaction to having just kissed.  I think that is a normal reaction.  I wasn’t even offended by their ripping out their chest hairs.  What really offended me was the “Wrench” ad that implies that it is okay to beat the crap out of someone who is does not meet your definition of manly - whatever that is - and the posting of the football players’ reactions.  Please tell me how showing their disgust and revulsion is supposed to sell Snickers bars?  I don’t think M&M;Mars intended to hurt anyone or that it believes that it is okay to bash gay people.  They just made a stupid decision and now need to correct it by pulling the ads.

I cant believe that Mars is pulling their ad based on the complaints of just a few. The homosexual population is only about 5%. I find it hard to believe that they would be truly offended.Maybe they are just using anything they can find to further their agenda. Have we become so OPEN MINDED that our brains have fallen out.

Ok...this is obviously not a homophobic commercial it is a satirical comment on blue collar or redneck america...but at the same time if you are a gay teenager hiding from friends and family and terrified that someone will think you are gay you might internalize the negative feelings and messages that are sent by this ad...now to the comments about two men kissing; it is not human nature to react strongly to two men kissing it is a purely USA’ian cultural conditioned response...even in the middle east it is socially acceptable for two men to hold hands and to kiss on the mouth when they are greeting one another...some of you need some cultural education...The United States male is the exception not the rule in the rest of the world and it comes from negative cultural commentary when two men are shown expressing affection positive emotions toward each other it is met with snickers LOL and jokes and sometimes violence...we like watching men strike, kick, hurt, and kill each other...United State culture is twisted and most dont even know it…

I thought the ad was very funny.  The disgust apparently felt by the actors is very true in society in general and one feeling that affects me too.  I do not apologize to anyone for finding the ad funny and I think Mars Candy should be more concerned with what the vast majority of folks think rather than the very small, but vocal minority of homosexuals.

IT WAS FUNNY! It did not have any hidden comments it was meant to make us watch a commercial and make us laugh PERIOD! I am so tired of the homosexual community trying to find offence in everything. Hey maybe someone should tell them IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU!! If you want society to treat you normal then act normal and stop trying to find the offence.
I’m a natural blonde, maybe I should be demanding an apology and the show/commercial yanked every time a blonde is depicted as a bimbo or a sex object.
If I was the Mars Co. I’d put the ad back on the air.

Two dudes kissing on lips IS repulsive to most normal men, myself included. We surely don’t see the humor in this commercial. It must have been scripted by a gay male or woman. You’d think that gay guys would have loved this ad, and I’d wager that many did! Bob

This is just another major company that has given into the pressure of the pink mafia.  The pink mafia has an agenda, “if we don’t like it, you better change it, or else”, and they sent this message to Mars, that’s why the commercial was pulled.

It’s a shame that major companies don’t have the backbone to stand up to their harrasement.  What these companies don’t understand is that they are protected by the first admendment.  Mars did not break any law. 

Furthermore, this shows how the pink mafia is thin skinned, and how they look for something to be offended by.

Just because people don’t like immoral behavior of certain people in our society, doesn’t make them bad people, or “phobic” this or that.  In addition, the “phobic” rants can work both ways.

Dear Mars,

95% of the population has greater buying power than a puny 5%.

Oh please, the critics need to stop taking themselves so seriously as this ad clearly pokes fun at homophobic behaviour.  Lighten up people, it’s a joke.  Aren’t there bigger issues to get really upset over?

Oh my God....can’t we laugh at anything anymore. I didn’t even think about homosexuals during that ad. What the heck is wrong with all of us ..what a hpyersensitive bunch of wimps we all are!! Anything that is funny is probably going to offend somebody....GROW UP AMERICA! Can’t any of us laugh at ourselves any more..jeeez!

Hey, MARS is just selling their product.
What about the football players who agreed to star in these ads?
MARS is not a role model, its a candy company. The football players are the ones who make this commercial possible.
This is not about MARS being homophobic; if anything, it reveals how greedy and money hungry NFL players are. Why should they care how thier actions can affect their fans/consumers. They are just exposing thier “greedy american”, and for some kids, that’s “cool”. Why do most kids want to become pro ‘ballers’ = $$$$$$$
Oh-
When was it natural to cringe at anyone kissing - really - that is some small minds speaking. Some of these moralcouchwarriors should be aware that there are countries where str8 men hold hands, hug, and maybe kiss as a greeting. Yeah, really, and nobody gets the dry heaves when it happens.

Would all of you be happy if one man was disgusted while the other was delighted?  You can’t please everyone, so why try? 

Pure tolerance and political correctness don’t exist.  It was just a commercial.  Laugh, smile and enjoy a snickers bar!

I am gay, and no one I know found this ad offensive at all, just dumb, and not because they were kissing, but because the punchline was flat. It’s the same when gay groups freaked over the car commercial with the fairy...no actual gays were offended by that ad, although unlike this one that one was actually funny.

These groups do not speak for the gay community, they just want to listen to themselves talk. The rest of us do have a sense of humor (most of us anyway)...funnier ending, that’s my only complaint.

After years of experimentation I have been able to duplicate the Snickers bar. As a matter of fact, 1% of men who have tried them say they are even better. I’m seriously considering marketing them and calling them Gay Bars. Hope I didn’t offend anyone. Kiss, kiss. Obey God-Live Free.

a real man doesn’t share his Snicker bar

As a gay man I disagree with the assumption that the snickers Super bowl as is anti-gay, in fact I was in a gay chat room chatting with all the other gay men when the ad came on, all of us thought it was funny and some thought it was hilarious. No matter what the subject there will be some knee jerk reactionaries who will try and find something wrong with it. Just like the media portrays Gays as ultra feminine males, most of us watch the Super bowl, play football, go hunting, watch Nascar and are not overly sensitive about who we are. My advice to Mars candy, is quit listening to the extremists, because those types exist in all aspects of life, and validate themselves by their ability to cause or “create” controversy where none exists. Not all gay men are idiots, most of us are pretty much like society as a whole. Myself for example, I am a conservative politically. Surprised? Don’t be.

I don’t care if heterosexuals act according to ‘nature laws’. I don’t care if homosexuals don’t. What I care is when people try to impose their ‘nature law’ in my sexual orientation. Heterosexuals can do whatever they want, but please, don’t try to rule my life with your hypocrite moral given by your imaginary friend named God. You can do in your bed what you want. I don’t care what you do. Why you care so much of what I do? Envy? This ad seems to represent the violence that ignorance can generate.

I thought the darn thing was funny. But for those looking for a way to be offended, I note that the characters in the advert were the typical redneck hillbilly uneducated white-trash types that could be expected to “over react” to an inadvertent invasion of personal space. So what group is being insulted? Looks more like the message was “Laugh at these moronic hicks homophobia.” The implication being that sophisticated, intelligent people wouldn’t react that way.

What’s disgusting is that anyone would find such a normal reaction to be “homophobic”.  Perhaps those who don’t like the reaction are “heterophobic”.  Where’s the outrage there?  In any case, I’m going to go buy a Snickers when I get off work.

It is a sad day whenever people complain about something that was strictly a joke. The world has grown so politicaly correct that nothing is allowed any more. Being a heterosexual male I found the commercial to be extremely funny, the same as I would any other commercials. Everyone needs to get their feelings off their shoulders grow up and quit acting like a bunch of spoiled babies. If you don’t like something then fine, but what gives you the right to choose for everyone else?

Get over yourselves.....you are not as important as you think you are.

I’m having a problem understanding who is the majority?  Which group of people eat the most candy, gays or others (those who can make children).  I would think you would market toward the groups that would make your company the most money?

The two heterosexual men have a normal reaction that is ingrained from nature. Nature of course has defects like any other production line and homosexuality is a defective trait. In other respects the homosexual is “normal” in most every other way, only he/she is missing a natural component; the attraction to the opposite sex, which promotes the creation of human beings and balance in life. This is not to say that homosexuality is good or bad. But if this is an acceptable lifestyle, a lifestyle to take over “normal” heterosexual activity, views, and belief systems then be prepared for a world that creates future generations through cloning and test tube babies. With the rabid political arm of the homosexual cause attacking the foundations of nature it may be sooner than we think that heterosexual coupling will be outlawed as an offensive act.

The example comparing the coupling of a black man and a white woman to the coupling of a gay couple has no basis. Men and women, it doesn’t matter the race, are a natural coupling who create balance as well as procreate as nature intended. There is no comparison there. Although it is true that racists don’t like this, it is still natural.

Thank you for the discussion.

When will corporations stop running scared from homosexuals? They tiptoe around (no pun intended) worried that this commercial or that commercial might offend this measly 5% of the US population.  Mars has nothing to fear from gay men boycotting candybars. The incredible (girl-like) vanity of these “men” would never allow them to ingest an unhealthy candybar in the first place. They should concern themselves with the tubby guy who watches football on TV who is as we speak rolling his eyes is disgust at Mars’ wimpiness.

It seems the gay community is “Moralphobic” about this add. Perhaps they are more afraid of being reminded that their “Deathstyle” is destructive and morally wrong than people think.

Political correctness has imposed it’s will on us again.  I’m hetrosexual.  If I accadentally kissed another man, I would be grossed out.  But having said that, if a homosexual wants to kiss someone of their same sex, that’s their business.  I’m sick of PC.

Scientific studies, my ass. How about political sensationalism. The problem in our society is arrogant homosexuals imposing their morality upon the rest of us.

Whatever “homophobia” is, it is a natural aversion to the unnatural and disordered state of affairs that homosexuals call normalcy.

I have to love how homosexual hide behind lies and self-deception to “prove” that homosexuality is normal or natural. Every study that has sided with the homosexual side of things has either been run by researchers with political biases or have suffered from statistical errors, logical fallacies,etc.

Face it, homosexuality is irrational.

Some old friends and I bought a bunch of candy bars at CVS at reenacted this commercial and sent it to a bunch of video websites. We haven’t heard anything back so it looks like I kissed a bunch of dudes for no reason.

Since I don’t waste my time watching the Stupid Bowl, I guess I missed it.  Might have been funnier if they had ripped off the scene from Caddyshack where the Baby Ruth bar floats in the pool...but then no one would buy their candy bar.

I agree with Walker! Can’t a manufacturer advertise the quality of their product in a positive and funny way? This add wasn’t very compelling to go buy a Snickers candy bar. The Gay community needs to shut up and get over it.... this add was not about them!

My only thought when I saw this ad was that it was stupid. To share a Snickers bar one simply breaks it in half !!! Then one wouldn’t be in that position would they ??

The ad by Mars Candy on SuperBowl Sunday may have been directed toward non-gay postures but just showing a man kissing a man regardless of the point of the ad’s final posture reflects homosexuality as a possible activity for people to engage in and certainly did more to promote the issue of homosexuality than against it as the homo’s are stating!  It was disgusting and should not have been aired and was certainly a “child abuse” scnerio since many chldren were “forced” to see it due to the entire matter being aired on a Sport program for all ages!!!  The heterosexual community was offended by it and not entertained at all.

The ad would not have been so offensive if they had used good looking models instead of the unshaven, dirty, grimy and gross looking mechanic types.  The ad just needed more class.

it was a pretty funny bit; people are way too sensitive; any commercial you could possibly make could offend someone or some group.  Grow up and quit looking for ways to be offended.  hurry up now, Rosie is coming up on the view.  you better hurry !!  Freaking PC is killing this once great country.

real men could care less . they aren’t phased by it. they are sure about thier own sexuality.

When are gay people going to realize that heterosexuals are just born that way?  If a hetero man shows disgust at seeing two men kiss, maybe that’s just a natural reaction.  They cannot help it if they are born that way, it could be genetic. I know gay men who are disgusted by hetero kissing.  So what?  That’s their business.  Trying to change people’s innate reactions will meet with no success and will likely cause hatred, not alleviate it. Gays are almost getting as bad as the religious fanatics who try to control the public’s every thought and emotion.

When I saw this ad, I took it as a fuck you to all the straight guys watching the game. This is not important. Why can’t people ever shout about anything that matters?

I though it was just plain funny.  People need to chill out and not get offended by every single little thing. Seems like whatever you say or do anymore, someone is going to be offended.

I can’t believe any manufacturer would resort to such distasteful behavior in order to sell their product. I have been buying Mars products for years, but this is just another log added to the ‘I’m normal’ Homosexual fire.
Too bad that you have to succumb to pressure from a perverted minority. I will do my best to stop buying any Mars products until you change this discusting direction.

I’ll never buy any Mars product again.  I put that commercial in the same category as Janet’s wardrobe “malfunction”.

I don’t get it. It’s funny.  What’s all the fuss over?  Are we so policitally correct we can’t laugh at humor anymore?  And don’t say it’s at the expesnse of bla bla bla.  B.S.!!

A commercial is supposed to entice you to purchase a product.  Seeing 2 men eat a candy bar from opposite ends and meet in the middle makes me want to puke.  Now every time I see a Snickers bar I’ll see that comercial in my head.  Sure I’ll buy a Snickers the next time I want some candy.  NOT!!!!

Anti-homosexual ads?  You’re kidding, right?  A better description would be anti-accidental kissing.

“Anti-homosexual” is hyperbolic to the extreme.

Ten years ago, Jerry Fallwell would have attacked this ad as “promoting the homosexual agenda” because it featured two men kissing.

Now finding humor in two straight men having a “gay” moment is anti-homosexual?  Please.

It is good to see something which is in opposition to the slide into the perverse abyss, but better still, it is best to avoid calling attention to the sin du jour which is consuming so many today.  All sexual sins (Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, etc.) separate us from the countless blessings God has intended for His creation.

The Snickers ad was certainly not the only offensive ad.  What about GMC (already a BIG loser) humanizing an assembly line robot only to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge?  My beloved America just continues to jump off its own bridge.  P.S. Osama has done NOTHING to cause us to act this way.  It’s all ours.

Well, let’s see who else can we “offend”. Snickers was named for the Mars family’s favorite horse, so I guess we could also offend people who kiss horses, or maybe gay’s that kiss horses, or . . . oh for the love of pete where does it all end? Please, everybody, it was a jibe, a joke, get over it, especially all you gays that eat candy bars named for a horse while working on cars! I still need Pepto Bismol if I see two men kissing, or two women, and there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it, it’s like seeing a cat get hit by a car; shocking,horrible and sad! I want my mommy.

So Mr. Lowell, nice insinuation that homosexuals are not normal. Do you have any idea how long homosexuality has been around? Read some ancient Greek history Mr. Smartypants.  And, what makes you think apple pie is healthy, for god sakes?  Do you know how much sugar and fat goes into one apple pie?  As my father used to say, “stupidity reigns supreme”.

BSBBE
Bull Sh** Baffles Brains Every-time

You freakin’ people need to get a life.  It’s a stupid commercial!  Here’s an idea...turn off the TV, log off the web, get off your fat ass and do something really productive like volunteering at a homeless shelter.  Maybe go next store and help your neighbor with some project he or she is working on.  Call your relatives and friends and tell them you love them.  Get together with your family and friends and do something constructive you bunch of yammering morons!

Funny is funny, and the ad was funny.  Men would normally react that way.  Sorry, just the way it is.  I’ll be buying more Snickers.

More in the constant drumbeat of a campaign to re-educate normal people in precisely how to think about homosexuality? Sorry, folks, but revulsion to witnessing two men kissing is just as healthy as apple pie and is certain to stay that way. Homosexual activists may succeed in steam-rollering change in our legal structure and in subverting our institutions but they will not be able to change what we are at core. Like it or not, our reality is a situated not an elective one. Like global warming, at one point that truth will start pushing back.

John Lowell

So, Paul and Toby, there are whites who would find the sight of a black man kissing a white woman offensive. Should America have adverts for shotgun manufacturers playing on that? I mean, it’s a natural reaction, right?

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A credit card company who’s miles don’t expire. The name escapes me. Actually, it was a number of darts and he moans “going down” as he falls. Same company that did the vikings doing menial jobs commercials.

I can’t believe how screwed up people can get.  I saw the add and thought it humorous.  How anyone can be offended by the reaction of two hetero men is just unbelievable to me.

I think that the folks that are complaining about the add never go dirty playing in their backyards, or have ever gone skinny dipping in a nearby river.

They are so far removed from reality that they are just completely screwed up.

I thought the commercial was just a rip-off of the scene in “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”.

Well, I guess we CAN fret over whether or not the ad was meant as satire or as barely disguised hatred of homosexuals, and not over whether or not advertising in general is intended to get all of us to purchase crap none of us actually needs.

Such superficial reactions to culture are what I’ve come to expect from both conservatives and liberals. Both parties are ever on the look-out for some minor slight. It almost seems as though what both most enjoy is becoming outraged, then engaging in elitist brow-beating. The only difference between them is that while conservatives are ever on the look-out for the moral degrading of society that might result from the baring of a female breast on TV, liberals are ever on the look-out for any hint of bigotry. Both miss the point, even if both are sometimes—though rarely—right to complain. I daresay, conservatives are more often right about these things than are liberals; although, both are given to conflating the cultural with the political. The conflation amounts to an American tragedy. These issues are usually termed, “wedge issues,” meaning that powers that be or who hope to be walk away laughing over the fact we took the bait once again.

Not that what is cultural doesn’t matter. It does. But if one’s eyes are trained on the fly buzzing just in front of ones face, one is less likely to notice the gorilla at ones back. It’s the gorilla that’s about to strike a blow to the back of your head such that you might go down for good.

The gorilla in the current case is one corporation that bought time to push their product (candy-drug) during the by now totally corporatized Super Bowl. The ad is about selling a product, and boys and girls, did it ever work! (Since I’m not a liberal who would, were he a liberal, also be duly obliged to believe the very idea of contact sports to be a terrible, violent thing, I happen to love professional football, indeed follow it pretty closely all season long. And I HATE that the game has become hardly more than an excuse to sell to me crap I don’t need, not to mention the fact the Super Bowl has become yet one more occasion for elistist get-togethers in pricey boxes, such that hardly any working-class, actually knowlegeable fan of the game of American football can afford to attend in his/her person!)

Neither conservatives nor liberals seem to have much to say about the gorilla most of the time, assuming they’ve even discovered the gorilla. Both prefer to focus on the buzzing fly. The National Football Leagaue itself garnered lots of attention/publicity during and after Ms. Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” and one can bet the makers of Snickers are not unhappy either with free publicity. Course they pulled the ad, but that was merely the end-game. Makers of Snickers must indeed be snickering, having gotten both liberals and conservatives comin’ and goin’. Dear readers: liberals and conservatives, never underestimate the abilities of those who devise agit-prop. “Keep your eyes on the prize,” meaning on the goal of socio-economic justice for all. MLK didn’t say it, but he might have added—less eloquently—“Don’t let ‘em wedge ya.”

Yes, let’s teach that anything remotely homosexual in connotation should be met with violent aggression. 

And let’s exploit rampant homophobia in the African-American community to do so. 

And let’s do it during the SuperBowl, the epitomy of the ignorant, neanderthal mentality that rules heterosexual America. 

... then you wonder why no one complained when Ronald Reagan refused to even say the word AIDS for over 4 years, when tens of thousands of gay men were already dead, with tens of thousands more dying. 

... then you wonder why gay America is revolted by straight America, too.

I have to admit I’m puzzled by this commercial.

Sure, there have been scientific studies that indicate that homophobes have latent homosexual tendencies, but what does that have to do with candy bars?

Has anyone else besides me noticed that commercials nowadays seldom have anything to do with the quality of the products they’re selling?

Beer commercials give you no indications as to how good the beer in question tastes, and car commercials give you no indications as to how reliable the car in question is, and so on.

And this candy bar commercial is simply more of the same garbage, IMO.

If we were to use the same brilliant logic posted oh-so-defensively here, then people attracted to those of the same sex would “naturally” find mixed-sex kisses to be disgusting or distasteful as well. Hate to burst your I’m-not-one-of-THOSE-homophobes bubble, but that just isn’t the case. We all see those kisses every single day.

Didn’t you know? Every kiss begins with Kay.

I am suddenly finding that Mars--the maker of Snickers--products have an incredibly bitter aftertaste.

If you want to avoid such a bad experience for yourself, you can find a listing of this disgusting companies products at http://www.candywarehouse.com/mmmars.html?page=all

jon
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I am sure I was one of many who posted negative comments on the MARS/Snickers web site to protest this ad campaign.  I can’t believe this was even aired.

I’ll never buy another snicker.

Hasn’t anyone else noticed that Snickers ads have an ongoing homoerotic theme?  The Snickers jingle commercial is a guy serenading another guy. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOE0MR99oM

Apparently their ad execs are facinated with two guys getting it on.  I doubt they’re anti-gay.  Seems like they’re pro-gay and doth protested too much in order to appeal to “manly” superbowl fans.

I thought that men who found kissing other men on the mouth distasteful were simply heterosexuals.  And I also thought that whatever reaction a person has inside his or her own head was their own business. 

On the other hand, it’s refreshing to find out that there are no real, important issues to worry about anymore, and we can now discuss, with perfect seriousness, the social import of candy bar commercials.  What a relief to know that war, poverty, disease and famine have all been eradicated and we can now move on to important issues, like how candy bar commercials make certain homosexuals feel.

Good God almighty.

Has anyone seen this commercial (I can’t recall the sponsor):  Dad informs the family that they are going to visit their ancestors.  “Ireland?” asks the son.  “Farther back than that,” Dad replies.  In the next scene, the family is in the middle of what appears to be the Amazon jungle.  A group of natives appears, and one of them shoots Dad with a blowgun.  Message:  Non-European, “native” people are primitive (perhaps less than human) and violent.

So...some straight men have a negative visceral reaction to two straight men accidently kissing. How is this offensive, exactly? It’s called human nature, last time I checked, and these videos are making fun of it. Nobody’s saying anyone should be disgusted. It’s simply an accurate portrayal of how these guys might react. How you react to something is entirely subjective and involuntary. So, what, it would be more politically correct if they supressed their natural reactions and jumped up and cheered instead?