Super Bowl Commercials Try to Remain Manly
If you didn’t tune in to the Super Bowl last night, here’s one of the commercials you missed:
King Kaufman reports there was another similarly homophobic ad after that one:
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Two ads after the Snickers spot, a CBS ad for “Survivor” showed some guy saying, “Me and Richard became friends — not in a homosexual way.”
You know, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
AOL Sports Blog points to the commentary on Tony Dungy’s post game speech found over at OutSports:
Sorry, Tony Dungy and Colts owner Jim Irsay – God did not want you to win the game. If such a deity exists, he/she/it has bigger things to worry about.
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Irsay and Dungy’s overt prostelyzing was nauseating, made even worse by Dungy’s upcoming appearance before an anti-gay Christian group. This kind of in-your-face God-squadding suggests that they are in some way superior, and they need to be called on it.
As a friend wrote me about Dungy after the game: “He is the sort of fundamentalist who truly believes that his way is the only way and thus wants to shove it down everyone’s throat, and feels further emboldened by a meaningless football victory that he feels infuses him with even greater legitimacy.”
Read my previous post on Tony Dungy’s upcoming attendance at an Indiana Family Institute special event dinner here.
I find it pretty funny that the Christian Right is all up in arms over the Snickers commercial thinking that it promotes homosexuality while the gays are upset that it is overtly homophobic.
Personally, I laughed at the commercial. I thought it showed how ridiculous people who are homophobic look.
I’m just glad I didn’t leave the television on to watch the Irsay/Dungy show afterward. I really can’t abide people shoving their gods in my face. It is beginning to be my number one pet peeve.
Yes, the two men in the ad are homophobic and have to “do something manly” to offset the kiss. BUT the fact that this kind of ad is playing during the SuperBowl speaks volumes about the extent to which the “regular guy” is willing to let the idea of homosexuality into his life. In fact, I think the ad reflects positively on where we are today.