Thank goodness. I was getting worried that all the pasta companies in the world had caved into the homosexual agenda. Glad that Barilla is taking this bold stance, and that we gays can go eat someone else’s pasta if we don’t like it!
The best part is that he managed to work in some old-fashioned “women should know their place: the kitchen” sexism into his backtracking non-apology!
I would hope that absolutely nobody cares.
Also note that apparently he is one of the people to whom lesbians are invisible. After all, women only have sex with women in male-oriented porn and, being an old fashioned guy*, he doesn’t watch any.
You know, I really hate it when articles like that put words in someone’s mouth. The owner of the company said “In the interview I simply wanted to highlight the central role of the woman in the family.” The author of the article immediately after says “Right. Because there’s nothing sexist about that. The central role of women in the kitchen.”
The pasta company owner, odious as his words may have been, did not say that women have a central role in the kitchen. It’s obnoxious and unprofessional of the author to say that.
It’s been so long since I’ve bought pasta, I don’t even know what I buy. Er, I mean, buying pasta? Who does that? Not this gay. quickly buys pastamaker off Amazon
Mr. Barilla needs a bit of the ol’ Al Dente, if you know what I mean. 
Would it be better if Barilla had a new line of ads *aimed at *lesbians?
A woman in the kitchen cooking Barilla pasta for her lovely, not-at-all-butch partner who comes home smiling at the thought of delicious Barilla pasta and her female lover?
Actually, that could be a very good ad.
That seems like a fair and balanced source.
To make matters worse, I once dumped a box of Barilla into a pot of water and what should float to the top but a dead spider! Almost ruined my life.
I like black people. I have nothing against black people getting married. I just don’t want to see them in any ads for pasta. Because I really value traditional white pasta cooking families, and the role of white people cooking pasta in society. And if black people don’t like it they can go eat someone else’s pasta.
Who here buys pasta based on the race, creed, color, national origin, or sexual preference of the actors in ads or the characters portrayed by those actors?
Me. As I boil a box of pasta and then dump a jar of sauce on it, I like to pretend I’m part of the traditional Italian family from the ads. Don’t take that away from me as I eat my spider pasta.
You did notice that it’s a blog? And blogs are opinion pieces and not news?
You could simply photoshop in a box of Barilla over the bra, slip, dress, razor or perfume featured in zillions of existing 2-women, feel-the-sapphic-vibe ads.
Give up on pasta and try these West Country comestibles instead!
Why don’t porn movies sell product placement???
Well, I didn’t, but now I will. And it won’t be Barilla.
“We don’t care who you do it with, only that you do it al dente!”
Unfortunately I don’t know if that’s a real response ad or just a Photoshop job.
Doesn’t matter. To state that someone said something that they didn’t say is poor form for both bloggers and journalists. Putting words in peoples’ mouths is wrong in both cases.
There are lots of things wrong with what the pasta-maker said without making things up. If it comes out later that he did say something about women belonging in the kitchen when someone actually translates the whole thing, then I’ll retract. But he didn’t, and so the author shouldn’t pretend that he did.
Well, that’s certainly using the old noodle!
