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Crying out justice, but seeking out triumphs (iwanttobeasleep) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-02-06 22:52:00


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You'll have to forgive me for this one, I didn't witness the commercial or the original site first hand, but it is too perfect.

During the Superbowl, Snickers airs a commercial in which two men accidentally kiss while eating a Snickers bar, and proceed to rip off pieces of chest hair to prove their straightness.

On their website (now removed) they have three other endings for viewers to vote on (one with the two men drinking motor oil and windshield wiper fluid, one with them beating each other up, and one with another man walking in and asking if there's "room for three in this Love Boat"), to be aired during a NASCAR event. They also had reactions of football players from the Colts and the Bears being disgusted and/or amused by the two men accidently kissing (which someone uploaded to YouTube, and the second part).

Naturally, GLAAD was pissed about the obvious/implied homophobia and raised enough noise to get them to take down the site. A popular liberal blog called for the members to spam Mars's (the parent company) with complaints, and a Portland Mercury blogger writes a response to say they're overreacting and misinterpreting.

There's wank in the article comments, there's wank in the YouTube comments, I honestly have no idea where to even start pulling choice wanky comments from.


It's already in the Wikipedia entry. I've got my fingers crossed for wank in the discussion.

Important related news: The Colts' head coach promoted a homophobic fund raiser.


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[info]amxjm
2007-02-07 06:54 am UTC (link)
Speaking as a liberal gay man, I thought it was a hilarious commercial. So, clearly, I fail at politics. Or something. Still thought it was funny, though.

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[info]napalmnacey
2007-02-07 08:35 am UTC (link)
I laughed. /left-wing bisexual.

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[info]barankhy
2007-02-07 09:05 am UTC (link)
I laughed, too.
We fail at politics. We are naughty. We need to be spanked.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-07 08:13 pm UTC (link)
I'm queer. I laughed. Spanking sounds good. *winks*

Katta

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[info]barankhy
2007-02-07 08:19 pm UTC (link)
So, do you prefer a paddle or bare hands?
*smug grin*

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-07 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Will all this spanking lead to an Inferno?

Cookies to anyone who gets the reference.

-Spacebabie

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[info]barankhy
2007-02-07 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, the only Inferno I can think of is Dante's, but I don't know whether he mentions spanking...

So... *fails at getting it*
Therefore... *steals cookies and runs away, cackling madly*

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[info]catslash
2007-02-07 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Only if there are five lesbians and they've all made films.

What kind of cookies?

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-07 10:01 pm UTC (link)
Peanutbutter chocolate chip cookies.

-Spacebabie...who is waitng for her next Coupling DVD to arrive.

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[info]catslash
2007-02-07 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Yum!

I got the third series for my birthday a couple weeks ago. That completes my collection, as the fourth didn't do much for me. The Lesbian Spank Inferno ep was my very first - I stumbled across Steve's rant at the end while I was channel-surfing and was instantly hooked. I love that show. Plus, it made for a highly comical moment when I recognized Norrington in Pirates of the Carribean. I referred to him as Commodore Steve for a long time after that.

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[info]jerel
2007-02-07 12:46 pm UTC (link)
I laughed too. Perhaps I read too much into things--I was an English major--but I thought it was a comment on the ridiculous things men do to prove their manliness. In the commercial, it happened to be kissing, but hetero guys will get really goofy in their attempts to say "Hey, I'm a MAN!"

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[info]made_by_kali
2007-02-07 07:24 pm UTC (link)
Me too.

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[info]sashenka
2007-02-07 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh, you and your having a sense of humor. You're gay and you're not allowed T_T.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-02-07 04:09 pm UTC (link)
Also laughed, and now I really want to see the 'room for three' ending because that would amuse the hell out of me.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-02-07 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I would think the absurdity of their need to prove themselves "manly" was the humor of it, myself.

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[info]thecheese
2007-02-07 11:10 pm UTC (link)
Better watch out. Rosie O'D. is going to kick you out of the club.

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[info]luna_hoshino
2007-02-08 01:58 am UTC (link)
No, no, see, apparently that means you fail at being gay if you're not offended.

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