Comments on: Oh dear http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/02/08/oh-dear/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:09:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » Update on Snickers http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/02/08/oh-dear/comment-page-1/#comment-15438 SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » Update on Snickers Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:08:53 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=948#comment-15438 [...] other day I talked about the Snickers ad and how I thought it was being blown out of porportion. Well, one of my regular readers (I think [...] [...] other day I talked about the Snickers ad and how I thought it was being blown out of porportion. Well, one of my regular readers (I think [...]

]]> By: Nik http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/02/08/oh-dear/comment-page-1/#comment-14098 Nik Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:05:31 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=948#comment-14098 I liked the Snickers commercial but they should have cut it a good 15 seconds earlier. I didn't need chest hair pulling action. Or any other violent act. But, I would also like to say, the GM commercial was my FAVORITE of the night. I screamed for the robot not to jump! He was adorable. I loved the whole thing. Best one of the night. They shouldn't pull it. This is another reason why America sucks. We can't do anything anymore. Someone's always going to have the right to complain! =P Oh, and Prince? I've never liked that guy. And as soon as that sheet went up I started screaming "Indecent! Indecency! I see it at the Superbowl again! Damn you CBS, there's some sort of malfunction on stage! Don't you see it!!?" I'll tell you what, I know how to liven up a Superbowl party... I liked the Snickers commercial but they should have cut it a good 15 seconds earlier. I didn’t need chest hair pulling action. Or any other violent act. But, I would also like to say, the GM commercial was my FAVORITE of the night. I screamed for the robot not to jump! He was adorable. I loved the whole thing. Best one of the night. They shouldn’t pull it.

This is another reason why America sucks. We can’t do anything anymore. Someone’s always going to have the right to complain! =P

Oh, and Prince? I’ve never liked that guy. And as soon as that sheet went up I started screaming “Indecent! Indecency! I see it at the Superbowl again! Damn you CBS, there’s some sort of malfunction on stage! Don’t you see it!!?” I’ll tell you what, I know how to liven up a Superbowl party…

]]> By: Chele http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/02/08/oh-dear/comment-page-1/#comment-14095 Chele Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:01:35 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=948#comment-14095 I only want to clarify something about the Snickers thing. The Snickers one that aired certainly wasn't the big issue. The big issues were the football players watching the ads on the Snickers website and making comments about how disgusting it was to see two men kissing as well as other variations on the ad that they were having fans vote on what woudl air for the Dayton 500. That is why the outrage displayed by MSF, GLAAD and HRC. On the website one such ad to vote on was titled the WRENCH - instead of ripping out their own chest hair they had one man club the other over the head with a Wrench because of the kiss only to then have retailation of slamming the other guys head in a car trunk. You can find that version on Youtube I believe still. It's just plain wrong... As a huge supporter of MSF there is a reason Judy Shepard and others stood up to Mars and demanded the ads be pulled from the site. It's also interesting to note that the ad agency first contacted GLAAD to review the ads only to change their mind before showing them and that commericial industry insiders are saying that some people from the ad agency will be out of jobs because Mars is so angry about the contraversy. This one in particular wasn't mocking homophobia but instead displaying homophobic motivated violence against another person as well as watching 'big macho football players' mock how 'gay' the ads were.... Considering the reputation of homophobia in professional sports this isn't surprising that was the reaction by these players but it seems very calculated that once again the gay community was used to give Snickers more ink after the SuperBowl - however not speaking up about it would have been wrong hey - my two cents Although the Prince thing silly! I only want to clarify something about the Snickers thing.

The Snickers one that aired certainly wasn’t the big issue. The big issues were the football players watching the ads on the Snickers website and making comments about how disgusting it was to see two men kissing as well as other variations on the ad that they were having fans vote on what woudl air for the Dayton 500. That is why the outrage displayed by MSF, GLAAD and HRC.

On the website one such ad to vote on was titled the WRENCH – instead of ripping out their own chest hair they had one man club the other over the head with a Wrench because of the kiss only to then have retailation of slamming the other guys head in a car trunk. You can find that version on Youtube I believe still. It’s just plain wrong…

As a huge supporter of MSF there is a reason Judy Shepard and others stood up to Mars and demanded the ads be pulled from the site. It’s also interesting to note that the ad agency first contacted GLAAD to review the ads only to change their mind before showing them and that commericial industry insiders are saying that some people from the ad agency will be out of jobs because Mars is so angry about the contraversy.

This one in particular wasn’t mocking homophobia but instead displaying homophobic motivated violence against another person as well as watching ‘big macho football players’ mock how ‘gay’ the ads were….

Considering the reputation of homophobia in professional sports this isn’t surprising that was the reaction by these players but it seems very calculated that once again the gay community was used to give Snickers more ink after the SuperBowl – however not speaking up about it would have been wrong

hey – my two cents

Although the Prince thing silly!

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