Snickers removes nuts

What you didn't hear? From now on the great candy bar will no longer contain nuts. This decision comes from the top of the company. They feel since their upper level excutives don't have any nuts then their bars should no longer have any either.

This all comes on the heals of the company pulling its super bowl advertisement where two "manly" men so consumed by desire for the delectible little chocalate end up in an awkward lady and the tramp type kiss. To remedy this they have to do something manyl so they rip out chest hair. It appears that this offended some of the more radical fagvocasy groups out there? In a Moe Sczylak type moment I have to ask myself "Wha . . . wha . . what?"

The complaints claim that the faces atheletes made while seeing the commercial. The quote is: "This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country" Bull shit. These men reacted as they felt fit. If it made them uncomfortable that is their right to feel that way. Maybe if more of these commercials aired we would become more acustomed to this and the behaviour would not be so damn shocking. Why not comment on the acceptance of millions of folks that over looked the "homosexual" nature of this video and thought the video itself was funny.

Deep breath . . .

So let me get this straight . . . Two straight men can not be appalled by doing something that they do not normally do. Would hunters be up in arms, if a commercial aired where someone accidentally killed a deer and was upset because that is not something that they normally do? Maybe. Who knows? Do they have a right to be pissed? Of course. But it is ridiculous. I dont think that these groups represent the people that claim to. Do they honestly feel that the homosexual community should be upset by this.

As I said in an earlier post why point out differences when trying to gain acceptance. I'm am by no means saying hide who you are, what you think, or how you feel. If you want to complain, feel free to do so on an individual basis but for a group to stand up and say this offends US as a collective group without checking with those that you represent.

The other bad part of this is that the folks that make the yummy, really satisfying, candy bar didn't have the balls to stand up and keep the commercial on TV. They gave into the presssure. removed the ad, but did not offer an appology. If they originally felt that this commercial was not offensive then stand behind that. Why bail when some people complain. If you really are sorry then you should offer an appology rather than just skating around the issue by pulling the ad.

I know I may seem like a homophobe myself, but I am not. I am just against people bitching about stupid things and pussifying our society.


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