Comments on: Was Snickers Superbowl Ad Homophobic? http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418 A rough draft of my thoughts... Wed, 03 Oct 2024 07:01:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Bloke http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359905 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:21:30 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359905 If you want to know more about the Mars family, the people behind Snickers, diabetes, amd childhood obesity in the USA, as well as slave labor in thrid world countires, you should read this pair of books. I know these people personally, and they're monsters. These are the books they DON'T want you to see...The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, by Joël Glenn AND Crisis in Candyland: Melting The Chocolate Shell of the Mars Family Empire by Jan Pottker http://www.epinions.com/content_68791930500 If you want to know more about the Mars family, the people behind Snickers, diabetes, amd childhood obesity in the USA, as well as slave labor in thrid world countires, you should read this pair of books. I know these people personally, and they’re monsters. These are the books they DON’T want you to see…The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars, by Joël Glenn AND Crisis in Candyland: Melting The Chocolate Shell of the Mars Family Empire by Jan Pottker http://www.epinions.com/content_68791930500

]]> by: Dr. Steven Taylor http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359810 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:14:29 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359810 Yep. I think it had been pulled from the website by the time I had written the original post. Yep. I think it had been pulled from the website by the time I had written the original post.

]]> by: Jan http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359792 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:30:40 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359792 Did you hear that the ad has been pulled? http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=181509 Did you hear that the ad has been pulled?

http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=181509

]]> by: Stanford Matthews http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359576 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:36:56 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359576 Advertising should be about the offer of a product or service. Not just during the Superbowl, but most ads avoid saying anything useful. Advertising should be about the offer of a product or service. Not just during the Superbowl, but most ads avoid saying anything useful.

]]> by: Talmadge East http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359569 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:12:49 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359569 I think calling the ad homophobic is taking it a little to seriously. In any case I thought the ad was really funny (hat tip to Doc. Taylor though, it didn't make me want a snickers). I think calling the ad homophobic is taking it a little to seriously. In any case I thought the ad was really funny (hat tip to Doc. Taylor though, it didn’t make me want a snickers).

]]> by: Dr. Steven Taylor http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359562 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:57:24 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359562 On balance, yes. However, the homophobia theme is clear here (unlike the alleged WAR! refs). However, as I said, I just found the who thing to be revolting. Plus I am not a big fan of slapstick humor. On balance, yes.

However, the homophobia theme is clear here (unlike the alleged WAR! refs).

However, as I said, I just found the who thing to be revolting. Plus I am not a big fan of slapstick humor.

]]> by: B. Minich http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359561 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:55:45 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359561 Hrmmmm - sometimes a dumb ad is just a dumb ad? I wonder if this can be filed away under the same category as those seeing WAR!!! in this year's Super Bowl ads. Hrmmmm - sometimes a dumb ad is just a dumb ad? I wonder if this can be filed away under the same category as those seeing WAR!!! in this year’s Super Bowl ads.

]]> by: Polimom Says » About that Snickers test ad… http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359553 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:30:53 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359553 [...] Taken all together, actually, I think there’s something here that’s both more, and less, than screaming homophobia — kind of a Y-version of the anorexic runway model — and theentire situation is exactly what Dr. Steven Taylor called it: a pop culture rorschach test. [...] […] Taken all together, actually, I think there’s something here that’s both more, and less, than screaming homophobia — kind of a Y-version of the anorexic runway model — and theentire situation is exactly what Dr. Steven Taylor called it: a pop culture rorschach test. […]

]]> by: Judy http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359551 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:17:54 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359551 Yea for snickers. I will be buying all I can. Yea for snickers. I will be buying all I can.

]]> by: KipEsquire http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359547 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:07:27 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=11418#comment-1359547 My gay blogroll is fairly expansive, and it seems to suggest that the ad itself wasn't the problem so much as the alternative endings that Masterfoods posted on the Snickers website -- one of which apparently included physical violence between the two characters. My gay blogroll is fairly expansive, and it seems to suggest that the ad itself wasn’t the problem so much as the alternative endings that Masterfoods posted on the Snickers website — one of which apparently included physical violence between the two characters.

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