Gay-Positive French McDonald’s Ad Won’t Air in U.S.

[V M]

Yes, of course we can smell through our televisions.. And we have folks from all over the world

Although I may not agree... Paris Hilton thinks she is hot

Anyway here's THE CURE

[tekla]

Yes, of course we can smell through our televisions.

Of course it that were true then perhaps everything on it might not stink so bad.

[V M]

Of coarse it that were true then perhaps everything on it might not stink so bad.

Oh, I see what your looking for... Shall it be ping pong paddle, incense holder or an open hand spanking? 

[tekla]

I'm in Vegas right now, so by the time I get back I'll no doubt need the whip.

[V M]

So, If I've got this right... I'll need to bring a whip, wear my orange dress, black sweater, Hello Kitty ears and bow on my head and be ready to go to a SF Giants game at the park?

[spacial]

I don't want to be defending MacDonalds or any other oppressive, politico-global, trans national, culturally homogenous capitalist neo-whatever.

But the point of an advert is to tell people that this product will fit in with your current lifestyle and enhance it.

Adverts are intended to sell products, so the company can make profit and employ people.

A few years ago, I was in a large factory making cosmetics, for various reason. In the distribution room there were hundreds of people, young and old, male and female, packing these products into little boxes then larger boxes. They were all working for minimum wage. All around were posters of various glamour models living beautiful lives.

It may sound like an obnoxious irony but in reality, those models were selling those products so those people could be employed. All were part of the team.

That is reality.

[FairyGirl]

I have yet to see or hear anything about the add that says gay. This is just nuts and I refuse to eat at Mcducks. Personal reasons.

does that mean when we go out you'll be taking me to a fancy restaurant then?

(though I must admit a fondness for cheeseburger Happy Meals with the girl toy)

[glendagladwitch]

the point of an advert is to tell people that this product will fit in with your current lifestyle and enhance it.

Adverts are intended to sell products, so the company can make profit and employ people.

It may sound like an obnoxious irony but in reality, those models were selling those products so those people could be employed. All were part of the team.

That is reality.

OT, I know, but it seems to me that only about 10% of the US economy is directed towards necessary goods and services.  Of the rest, about 70% seems to be directed towards goods and services that people don't really need, while the remaining 20% is directed towards creating desire among the public for those goods and services.  No wonder the US is a nation of overweight debtors who have meaningless jobs and produce mounds and mounds of trash upon trash.  I don't think it makes sense to force people to buy wardrobes and burn gas and whittle their lives away for the sake of giving people "busy work."  There must be a better way to care for the people whose services aren't really needed, than forcing them to work or starve, just so other people can work or starve, and so on and so on.  I guess this makes me a socialist, but I'd rather people have a choice whether to work or not, with those who don't work receiving everything they need, while those who work get frills, like air condition, automobiles, and cable television.  Surely there is a more efficient way that we could engineer to expend our diminishing resources, without forcing everyone to choose between being a field slave or a house slave, but the free market creates a race to the bottom.

[tekla]

I'm down with the creation of Desire (which up until the Mass Production/Mass Consumption age was thought to be a BAD thing) largely for things they don't really need, and that in many cases are not even good for them, i.e. McDonald's 'food'.

There is a reason why in survey after survey that people who don't watch TV are much happier than those that do (and  lot less paranoid also).


So, If I've got this right... I'll need to bring a whip, wear my orange dress, black sweater, Hello Kitty ears and bow on my head and be ready to go to a SF Giants game at the park?
And out to a show later.