# Experiment about gut reactions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368 "2012-10-11T00:55:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/1 "2012-10-11T00:55:24Z")
I should imagine that 99% of posters here find homophobia here and almost all are from non UK countries, where faggot is necessarily a homophobic thing to say. So how do you find the following adverts at a GUT level. Read no more before watching them please. [Advert one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItF0CcJBN4&feature=related) [Advert two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a1BxB-lvE0) [Advert three](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y136zBVjBg) [Advert four](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQRQHfaGWc) Finally, [Advert](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bzj1WdOCA) - where the laughter is **not** because of the F word btw. Finished watching? Good. So now you can read this. Intellectually, of course, you understand that all this talk about faggots is not remotely homophobic. But I am interested in how you felt watching the thing, at your gut level especially. But other contributions welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/2 "2012-10-11T00:58:08Z")
I’m at work so I can’t watch the videos, but even the post frustrated me. I’m bi and most of my friends are queer though, so I’m probably more sensitivet than most. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/3 "2012-10-11T01:00:58Z")
Option 8 is this: I know all about Mr Brain’s Pork Faggots, due to being British or some other reason, so am well habituated to this stuff. JUST missed the edit deadline! ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/4 "2012-10-11T01:06:15Z")
I read a shit-ton of British lit, and am very familiar and used to fags and faggots not referring to gay people. So - None of those bother me, they don’t affect my gut, don’t squick me out, nor do I find them particularly funny/ironic/unsettling - it’s just a use of a particular word that is translated very differently on different sides of the pond. Perhaps if I were less familiar with the Britishism? ETA - I see that I should choose Option 8 then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/5 "2012-10-11T01:06:21Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > I should imagine that 99% of posters here find homophobia here and almost all are from non UK countries, where faggot is necessarily a homophobic thing to say. This should have said 99% of posters here hate homophobia, I don’t think what it currently says even makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/6 "2012-10-11T01:47:42Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I read a shit-ton of British lit, and am very familiar and used to fags and faggots not referring to gay people. > So - None of those bother me, they don’t affect my gut, don’t squick me out, nor do I find them particularly funny/ironic/unsettling - it’s just a use of a particular word that is translated very differently on different sides of the pond. > Perhaps if I were less familiar with the Britishism? > > ETA - I see that I should choose Option 8 then. 😃 This. It’s just another definition of the word, nothing more weird about it than the use of the word “gay” meaning happy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/7 "2012-10-11T05:17:39Z")
When I see the ads and they’re obviously for a meat product that isn’t a gay man, I have no problem with it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/8 "2012-10-11T05:31:07Z")
I’m not offended by words and I didn’t see any use of ‘faggot’ to refer to a person’s sexual orientation, nor did I pick up anything indicating they were made out of ‘brains’ either. And I don’t understand what your poll choices mean. Is the word ‘faggot’ supposed to make us uneasy because some people use it as slur? Or should we be offended by the sight of that awful stuff being presented as food? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/9 "2012-10-11T06:03:42Z")
I’m pretty niggardly with my outrage, so those ads did not find the chink in my armor. ---
**Author:** ![AqualungBats5th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AqualungBats5th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AqualungBats5th)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/10 "2012-10-11T06:38:09Z")
I don’t understand what you hope to accomplish with this social experiment. ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/11 "2012-10-11T07:22:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m pretty niggardly with my outrage, so those ads did not find the chink in my armor. I am outraged by your post, even if I am neither from Africa, nor from Asia. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/12 "2012-10-11T12:01:19Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > This should have said 99% of posters here hate homophobia, I don’t think what it currently says even makes sense. I had to read that sentence five times before I got that the second “here” refers not to the SDMB, but rather to the linked commercials; and that “find homophobia” means “deem to be an example of homophobia”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/13 "2012-10-12T00:57:31Z")
Do those Mr. Brain’s Faggots look tasty to anyone else? Mmmm, faggots. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/14 "2012-10-12T03:44:14Z")
I was more annoyed by the videos and the way they talked than anything having to do with the word. Couldn’t bare to watch more than two of the videos… boring, drawn out, advertising a disgusting blob of ambiguous meat product? No thanks. That they call it a “faggot” is slightly amusing, as is “Mr. Brain” – I thought this was an Austin Powers spoof or something – but then again anything coming out of the UK is usually slightly amusing. Wasn’t offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/15 "2012-10-12T04:16:16Z")
I couldn’t understand a damn word said in videos 1, 2 and 4. Videos 3 and 5 probably would have elicited a chuckle from my stoned 16 yr-old self but other than that, _ehh_. Fairly obviously just a different term in a different culture. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/16 "2012-10-12T06:24:39Z")
I’ve seen ads for this product before (not British but a fan of a lot of British TV). I’m queer, I laughed… they’re not gut-bustingly funny, but they’re cute enough. I think it’s the acting. Who gets that excited about pre-packaged meatballs? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/17 "2012-10-12T11:27:42Z")
As a Brit, my gut reaction is ‘how OLD do those ads look?’ And being from the West Midlands, where ‘faggots and peas’ are a local delicacy, the gay connection doesn’t cross my mind. I’m gay, as well. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/18 "2012-10-12T13:58:08Z")
I used to eat faggots now and then when I lived in England. I think I may have been surprised first time I found out what they were called. And I don’t think I’ve ever in real life heard anyone use the word faggot in the gay sense. So other than, “they are some good looking faggots,” no reaction at all. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/19 "2012-10-12T16:58:52Z")
I immediately concluded there must be an alternative definition of faggot that I am not familiar with. I was mostly confused watching the adverts. By the end I was thinking they looked pretty tasty. The most offensive part of the ad to me was the stupid Asian accent on the panda bear. The last ad was a little uncomfortable because it does link the product with the homophobic slur. ---
**Author:** ![NGC2024](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@NGC2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NGC2024)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368/20 "2012-10-13T02:56:47Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > I am outraged by your post, even if I am neither from Africa, nor from Asia. Seriously outraged? I thought that was hilarious. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiment-about-gut-reactions/637368.md?page=2)