# Barilla Pasta Boldly Stands Up for Traditional Families **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750 "2013-09-26T20:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/1 "2013-09-26T20:09:03Z")
[Link](http://americablog.com/2013/09/pasta-barilla-gays-can-eat-someone-elses-pasta.html) 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! ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/2 "2013-09-26T20:10:55Z")
I would hope that absolutely nobody cares. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/3 "2013-09-26T20:15:00Z")
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. - This means any work which would require him to touch a computer is performed by his secretary, who is female and strongly resembles a dragon. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/4 "2013-09-26T20:16:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/5 "2013-09-26T20:19:37Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/6 "2013-09-26T20:24:20Z")
Mr. Barilla needs a bit of the ol’ Al Dente, if you know what I mean. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/7 "2013-09-26T20:26:00Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Also note that apparently he is one of the people to whom lesbians are invisible. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/8 "2013-09-26T20:30:52Z")
That seems like a fair and balanced source. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/9 "2013-09-26T20:37:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/10 "2013-09-26T20:41:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/11 "2013-09-26T20:49:11Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/12 "2013-09-26T21:05:14Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/13 "2013-09-26T21:18:29Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > 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. You did notice that it’s a blog? And blogs are opinion pieces and not news? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/14 "2013-09-26T21:28:12Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/15 "2013-09-26T21:29:02Z")
Give up on pasta and try these West Country [comestibles](http://images2.mysupermarket.co.uk/Products_1000/62/114662.jpg?v=1) instead! ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/16 "2013-09-26T21:33:24Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > 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. Why don’t porn movies sell product placement??? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/17 "2013-09-26T21:34:20Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > 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? Well, I didn’t, but now I will. And it won’t be Barilla. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/18 "2013-09-26T21:51:22Z")
[“We don’t care who you do it with, only that you do it al dente!”](http://i.imgur.com/RE0NGAw.jpg) Unfortunately I don’t know if that’s a real response ad or just a Photoshop job. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/19 "2013-09-26T21:51:44Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > You did notice that it’s a blog? And blogs are opinion pieces and not news? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750/20 "2013-09-26T22:03:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Barilla Pasta Boldly Stands Up for Traditional Families Well, that’s certainly using the old noodle! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barilla-pasta-boldly-stands-up-for-traditional-families/669750.md?page=2)