The amount of things wrong in that ad is really startling. Most of it was enough to raise blood temperature. (Some of it was facepalming.)
Some of what's wrong here isn't just homophobic, though. The thing that struck me the most? Saying to get away from the salad bar. This might be because I knew everyone else would attack... well... everything else, but this is one of the many reasons that there is an obesity problem in America. There's cultural conditioning that veggies are bad, and (for men) it's not a manly thing to eat them. I know plenty of men who eat vegetables and like them, thank you very much.
(Yes, I picked that point because the other ones were covered.)
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Date: 2009-12-08 10:05 am (UTC)Some of what's wrong here isn't just homophobic, though. The thing that struck me the most? Saying to get away from the salad bar. This might be because I knew everyone else would attack... well... everything else, but this is one of the many reasons that there is an obesity problem in America. There's cultural conditioning that veggies are bad, and (for men) it's not a manly thing to eat them. I know plenty of men who eat vegetables and like them, thank you very much.
(Yes, I picked that point because the other ones were covered.)