Snickers Super Bowl Web site promotes violence against gays and lesbians. Bears & Colts players react in disgust, on camera, to gays. Umm yeah... I'm not touching a Snickers bar - or any candy from the Mars Corporation (including M&Ms, Twix and more) for a very long fucking time.
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But don't you see how it's better to poison your body with toxic chemicals? To cause possible permanent damage? To do something irrevocably stupid in the name of "saving face" and buying into homophobia?!
Oh you poor silly woman with your logic. When will you learn?
/end painful sarcasm
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However, while the player-commentary just makes me sad I don't know what else to expect from the most testosterone-driven sport in the US.
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Ditto. I've seen all the ads, and it mostly seems to me that it's poking fun at homophobic meatheads, rather than 'promoting violence against gays.'
The player reactions are disappointing though.
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Showing football players demonstrating disgust at men kissing is different; I don't think there was any malice intended, but that campaign is actually supporting homophobia, however mildly.
I'll pretend to boycott M&M/Mars products if it will make my friends feel better. I cannot remember the last time I bought one of their products. If I can't afford good chocolate, I'm a hershey's man myself; I like the blue-collar look. Mostly, I prefer to bake.
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Yeah. I think they should fire whoever let that get out of development.
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