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Snickers ad pulled after complaints

Tue Feb 6, 5:52 PM ET

A commercial for Snickers candy bars launched in the Super Bowl broadcast was benched after its maker got complaints that it was homophobic.

The ad showed two auto mechanics accidentally kissing while eating the same candy bar and then ripping out some chest hair to do something "manly." One of the alternate endings on the Snickers Web site showed the men attacking each other.

The Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation complained to the maker of Snickers, Hackettstown-based Masterfoods USA, a division of Mars Inc., which also makes M&M's and other candies.

The Web site also featured video of players from the Super Bowl teams reacting to the kiss.

"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," Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese said in a statement.

GLAAD spokesman Marc McCarthy said Tuesday the group believed "this kind of prejudice was inexcusable."

Masterfoods spokeswoman Alice Nathanson issued a statement in which she said the company would stop running the ad on television and the Web site.

"As with all of our Snickers advertising, our goal was to capture the attention of our core Snickers consumer," Nathanson wrote.

"Feedback from our target consumers has been positive. In addition, many media and website commentators of this year's Super Bowl commercial line-up ranked the commercial among this year's top ten best. USA Today ranked it 9 of its top ten picks," she continued.

"We know that humor is highly subjective and understand that some people may have found the ad offensive. Clearly that was not our intent," she wrote.

Masterfoods brands include Uncle Ben's rice, Pedigree dog food and Whiskas cat food. It is part of Mars Inc., a family-owned company.

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God damn this country is turning into a bunch of uptight assholes! Its a commercial get a fucking grip!

The Faggot Agenda is in full force.

They need "special" commercials just for these maggots so they'll shut the fuck up. Just for the queens, Mars can show a Black Drag Queen eating a Snickers Bar sticking out of some Latino Prison Bitch's asshole. Not only will they feel Mars captured the true essence of the "normal everyday Homosexual Consumer" it serves as free public education to combat Homophobia.

Y2K wrote:The Faggot Agenda is in full force.

They need "special" commercials just for these maggots so they'll shut the fuck up. Just for the queens, Mars can show a Black Drag Queen eating a Snickers Bar sticking out of some Latino Prison Bitch's asshole. Not only will they feel Mars captured the true essence of the "normal everyday Homosexual Consumer" it serves as free public education to combat Homophobia.

Yeech. Is that for the special dark chocolate bar???

The commercial sucked and made me sick.

Two mechanics wind up kissing over a fucking candy bar? And the demographic test group loved it? They have a rather faggish group, then.

Sorry, I fucking hated it, and the "quick, do something manly" excuse didn't help at the end. That queerbait commercial needed to be axed. I'll never eat another Snickers bar, that's for sure.

Super Bowl ads have jumped the shark
the Super Bowl has jumped the shark
jump the shark has jumped the shark

nothing more to say !!

1. The commercial was God-awful stupid, aside from being a rip-off and blasphemous desecration of both "Lady and the Tramp" and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".

I say that to say this:

2. The folks at GLAAD need to grow a sense of humor.

Wolfman wrote: jump the shark has jumped the shark

^^^sig worthy.

It was a stupid ad but it's nothing anyone should've gotten bent out of shape about. There is way too much reading between the lines going on today. Had the two mechanics in the ad beat up a gay person, then I'd understand some outrage. You think heterosexual people aren't made fun too? If everyone wants to be treated the same, than everyone should have some thick skin and stop thinking everyone is out to get them.

guess it's a good thing Caddyshack was made before queers

Strange Bedfellows, Indeed


The Gay Rights Activists said it was demeaning to homosexuals? I assume the Christian Right shares the same opinion, though for much different reasons.

The 'I don't like it, so you have to make it stop' mentality is gay.

First, a Snickers bar is inedible garbage--just diabetes in a wrapper.

The ad was astonishingly immature. Is this really some sort of snapshot as to the American headspace? Are millions of pathetic dumbfucks really walking around in such a coalmine?

WW

But most TV adverts (particularly in America) are aimed at men who are hilariously terrified of being thought of as latent homosexuals. Drive a tank, eat loads of meat, shove as much barely-unfettered knocker into your eyes, and people won't think you're Gay.

Nishlord wrote:eat loads of meat,

Ummm........

LTS TRN 2 wrote:The ad was astonishingly immature. Is this really some sort of snapshot as to the American headspace? Are millions of pathetic dumbfucks really walking around in such a coalmine?

The only "dumbfucks" walking around are those forming their cultural opinions based on Snickers adverts.

Mook wrote:

Nishlord wrote:eat loads of meat,

Ummm........

You have to forgive our halitosis burdened queerbait. I'm sure the verb he meant to use was "gum."

He gurgles manjuice the way someone with actual teeth does Scope.

Shoalzie wrote:It was a stupid ad but it's nothing anyone should've gotten bent out of shape about. There is way too much reading between the lines going on today. Had the two mechanics in the ad beat up a gay person, then I'd understand some outrage. You think heterosexual people aren't made fun too? If everyone wants to be treated the same, than everyone should have some thick skin and stop thinking everyone is out to get them.

...now THAT would have made perfect sense! better to watch a fag get dropped than two straights meeting at the middle of a candy bar.

".....haunts countless gay and lesbian SCHOOLCHILDREN on PLAYGROUNDS across America..."

^^^^tell me GLAAD ain't got a pedophile contingent in their ranks. Sorry motherfuckers. I didn't realize children on playgrounds had defined their sexual preferences.

420 wrote:Strange Bedfellows, Indeed


The Gay Rights Activists said it was demeaning to homosexuals? I assume the Christian Right shares the same opinion, though for much different reasons.

The only thing you should "assume" is that every time you click on submit you lower the mean IQ of this already mentally taxed message board.

Nishlord wrote:But most TV adverts (particularly in America) are aimed at men who are hilariously terrified of being thought of as latent homosexuals. Drive a tank, eat loads of meat, shove as much barely-unfettered knocker into your eyes, and people won't think you're Gay.

Prance around your' office in a skirt, visit the neighbourhood fag pub regularly, and produce man on man money shots for your' personal enjoyment and they won't think you're heterosexual.

I'd say you're doing a great job Gashlord.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:

Mook wrote:

Nishlord wrote:eat loads of meat,

Ummm........

You have to forgive our halitosis burdened queerbait. I'm sure the verb he meant to use was "gum."

He gurgles manjuice the way someone with actual teeth does Scope.

Have my personal gimps finished being ignorant yet?

Hairloss James, Morron and the other latent homosexual would do well to remember that one shouldn't throw stones in the glasshouse or the bathhouse.