Were you offended by the snickers ad or did you think it was funny?

Question

Just saw on the view that the snickers ad played during the superbowl will never be seen again because gay people were offended by it. What do you think?

Forgot to ad that Rosie thought it was homephobic.

Answer 1

I thought the ad was funny. The writers of the ad are poking fun at machismo intented to appeal to the football viewing (16-40ish male) audience.
Reason #1 it was funny:
It was intended to humor, using in this case, the irony of two macho and manly men (big, dirty, fat mechanics) supposedly upholding the masculine code by working on a car doing the contra macho that was kissing each other. If the intent was to humor the audience with a homophobic joke, then there would be no need to use the mechanics and autoshop as a backdrop.
Simply showing men kissing would be funny wouldn't it? ...NO!
Reason #2 it was funny:
To compensate, the macho men rip their chest hair out. This outrageous (and stupid) act is supposed to illicit laughter. Somewhere in your mind, you're expecting something manly after "quick, do something manly!" What you don't expect is the men ripping out chest hair, which is actually not manly, but so outrageous that it's funny. It's physical comedy that catches the viewer off guard.
For some people, reason #2 was not as funny and simply moronic.
Because the commercial tried to add on humor with the reason #2 mentioned above, we can infer that the joke did not start and end with men kissing. Hence, it was not intended to be homophobic. Sadly, the ad was shot in a way that could be argued as homophobic.

Answer 2

I thought it was very funny! It pisses me off that there are people out there who want to have the commercial removed.

It was just a hypothetical look at what if two heterosexual men accidentally kissed while consuming a Snickers bar. Their reaction was to do something as manly as possible which was pulling off their own chest hair.

What's the big deal with that? If they were two gay guys who suppressed their homosexuality in the interest of staying mainstream, then it might be wrong but that wasn't the case. The case was two heterosexual men kissed and had to do something to take back their manliness.

If you are offended that the commercial considers homosexuals to be unmanly, then you don't understand that society has preconceptions about gender roles that have existed for quite some time. If a commercial perpetuates those values, get over it.

Are we suddenly going to take women out of cleaning commercials? Are men no longer the focus of power tool ads? Does every commercial have to be equal opportunity now? When will this Political Correctness rampage ever end?

Answer 3

If your talking about the one were the guys kiss because of a snickers (sorry I didn't see the commericals, I looked them up online) I was not offended by it in any way, I thought it was funny however it really did not make me want a snickers.

However I did think it was a bad marketing strategy (mainly because of ignorance and lack of tolerance), and look if you disagree with me here sending me hate mail isn't going to solve the problem, seeing as a very small percentage of the population is considered in the alternate lifestyle group (gays, lesbians,transvestites, ect) and most of the population does not seem to have tolerance from it (just like in the 30-50s with black people in the armed forces).

Overall I think the people that hated the commercial did not find it funny because they lack tolerance for people that have an alternative lifestyle. In a way its just the same as racism which is accepted as wrong in our society today, which WAS acceptable in earlier times of the nation and at one point was encouraged.

I thought it was funny, but it really didn't make me want a snickers.

EDIT: Why is it socially acceptable to show 2 women kissing, or a regular couple, but not 2 men?

Answer 4

Oh, it was funny. No gay people that I know were offended. In fact, it got all kinds of laughs. Anyone that has an issue with it needs to be smacked upside the head. It was funny, it meant no harm. GET OVER YOURSELVES PEOPLE! The ones that did have an issue are the reason that the gay population has so many problems. Lighten up folks. It was a commercial.

Addition: Rosie can suck a fart. She is suck a crock of cockadoodoo...Rosie doesn't have a grip on reality. I was going to go off about her...but I am just going to close this up with saying...she thinks she is going to be this big spokesperson for the gay community. She isn't. Everyone I know that is gay can't stand her and wish she would just leave the USA and go to some remote island to never be heard of again.

Answer 5

All you people who thought it was funny and feel that gay people should 'lighten up'...yeah you're the type of people that don't see that this commercial as being homophobic.

Hey, why isn't it availble on their website anymore?

Why aren't the alternate endings available on their site? Did you see the alternate endings? (see below link)

This commercial is creating a sense of negativity to homosexuality. Kids who see this will think "yeah..it's WRONG for two guys to kiss".

It was also WRONG for black people to kiss white people on TV 50 years ago. Do you still think it's wrong?

Obviously a lot of you who have praised this filth commercial don't get the psychological negativity that commercialism has on society - especially the impressionable such as young children.

Not only were gay people offended by it, so were straight people who have had their lives changed by homophobia.

The link below takes you to the (now removed) Snickers website asking you to vote on one of the videos to play during the Daytona. One of those videos portraits the two guys as beating up on each other because that's the 'manly' thing to do.

Promoting violence in this already messed up society isn't funny.

Answer 6

the finished advertisement worked on the concept gay guy = an oxymoron. And...that is a drained ideas-set. certain, there is stereotypical classified ads depicting each and every of the things you pronounced: and they are all undesirable too. i will claim that i'm no longer attentive to any which have information superhighway web site hyperlinks to change endings with those stereotypes having the ever-living tar kicked out of them. the advertisement change into offensive, notwithstanding the information superhighway web site change into some distance worse.

Answer 7

I thought the ad was hysterical.

I'm wondering when did it become bad for men to be macho, and not want to kiss. Majority of my male friends are straight. They are not homophobic. But all of them would rather lick someones shoe clean than kiss another man. They want to be men. I have nothing against lesbians. But I don't want to kiss a woman. I like men.

For a country that says that gays and lesbians can't get married because it's "Morally wrong", we are certainly bowing down to them when they get offended.

Answer 8

That is the most retarded (yes I said RETARDED) thing I have ever heard!!!!! People really need to get over the whole being "politically correct" thing. You will never make all the people happy all the time, it is impossible! You are always going to offend someone, somehow, someway. Personally, I thought it was kind of funny, although all the Super Bowl commercials this year stank worse then a fully loaded baby diaper.

Answer 9

I wasn't offended by it, but I only thought it was very mildly funny. I think snickers was banking on the shock of it sticking in peoples minds rather than the humor.

Answer 10

It was funny and not homophobic. If anything, it made fun of straight guys, but it was silly to begin with.
Somebody who has the self-awareness and articulate ability to voice the problem presented by an accidental kiss, would presumably come up with a more logical solution than ripping out chest hair; such as realizing that it wasn't even a kiss. But if you have to explain it, it looses its laugh value.
It reminded me of when I used to feed my lizards a large mealworm, each would grab an end and they'd meet in the middle.