And thank you for proving my point, that you’re a douchebag. Oh sorry, is that offensive to Vagisil?
Well shoot, I’ll just have to try to soldier on without you Dave. And you’ve shown yourself to be so responsive in the past on issues of anti-gay discrimination too.
I’ve always wanted to know who, outside of marketing departments, calls a burger a “sandwich”. Is that a regional thing? Where I come from, a “burger” and a “sandwich” are two different things.
Yes, I realize that, technically, a burger patty on a bun is a sandwich. But nobody I know calls it that.
Gee I dunno, fucknugget, I try to just walk the walk instead of beating my chest online, but if you want to try and make like I don’t like the gays or something, have right at it. God knows if you were representative of the orientation I might be, thankfully, most of the gay people I know are normal so it’s easy for me to see that it’s you who is a dickhole, not your sexual orientation.
What the fuck. Princess?
Why would Princess make it sexist but not Queen?
I really think some of you are reading things into this stupid ad that are not there.
Maybe it is me but I have not heard of people referring to homosexuals as a “Queen” in a very long time. Like decades, but then again I am not around any openly gay people.
Princess IMO is the younger daughter of the Queen or King. So if I want to read into things, naming it Burger Princess might insinuate that since the Burger King has lost his whopper that he has now turned into a pedophile. Wonderful :rolleyes:
Proving your point about homophobic slurs by using misogynistic imagery in it’s place. Well done, sir.
Uh, yeah, okay. As if that even made sense. :dubious:
FWIW, I liked the ad and although am surely outside their target audience, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out it was also was effective within same.
Besides, who didn’t like Candid Camera?
As for the “Burger Queen” comment. Meh. I can’t seem to get worked-up about it.
Is “Princess” the opposite of “King.” Thought not. Thus it would render the quip utterly senseless.
Not that I thought it particularly witty or funny – but look at the source. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that The Bard, he wasn’t.
I’m actually a current ad person. Head-On doesn’t actually meet any need at all. That’s why the tag line is “Apply directly to the forehead.” They’re not allowed to say anything else (Putting scented wax on your forehead serves no purpose but to enrich the scented wax dealer). All of their sales increase is due to the fact that the commercial worked. Usually when someone says they hate a commercial, they’re complaining as much about the repetition as the content.
Did it have to be opposite? The guy could have just said, “might as well call it Burger Stupid.”
Instead, they went for the gay joke, because gay jokes are always vogue.
Keep that mind sealed tight, you never know what could get in.
Is this where I provide a link to the HeadOn: Crimson Executioner Remix?
I prefer the HeadOn HeadAche.
Referring to other guys as “ladies” even as a mock insult strikes me as a way of expressing distaste for women. In other words, latent homosexuality. It is very common. I think most men demonstrate a degree of it. In the “Burger Queen” comment, I have the same reaction, regardless of the interpretation. I did see it as a sexist comment, though, not a homophobic one. That of femininity = inferiority.
Look I am going to be totally honest here and say that I don’t know shit from Shinola when it comes to The Gay Bashing Dictionary[sup]®[/sup] (with pictures?), but if “Princess” is not currently in it, surely it would be if “Queen” got hit with the ban-stick. Right? And then what? “Princess” gets whacked and what’s next in the royal chain? Say it’s “Duchess,” so that too would become reprehensible and/or oppressive so we keep going down the line and end up with something akin to “Burger Plebeian of the female persuasion”? Gets rather silly, doesn’t it? Seems to me by the end of it all we’ll be grunting as opposed to using perfectly fine words.
Ufft aaargh grrrowl roaarrr woaarrrt hrrrr urgh uhuh herrr harr grrrrrrr!
See anything offensive there? Because my grunts were meant to deride gays. I mean look at the extra-nasty “woaarrrt!” I say we ban that one immediately.
Yes, because none of has ever heard a woman say anything along the lines of “How just like a man” in tones of disdain. Never happens, and if it does, why, we can be sure the PC police will be all over it, right?
Anyone offended by the Queen comment, honestly and truly offended, on whatever level, badly needs to get over them self. Immediately.
Personally, I find this equally sexist.
I took the remark as sexist, but not more sexist than say, the banter I hear on a regular basis between guys all the time. It’s not something I would get all up in arms about, just maybe make me wish, ‘‘Oh shit, I wish this battle of the sexes thing would just end.’’ Not offensive–just a mildly depressing fact of life.
Being called a woman has nothing to do with homosexuality. It’s about being “weak”.
As for the commercial itself, I am underwhelmed. Reading this thread, I was expecting some real vitriol or hatred out of the people but the worst I saw was when the customer who got a Big Mac got asked if he didn’t like his Whopper and it looked like he was about to explode. The whole thing is dumb and I’m amazed that anyone would get upset over anything depicted in the commercial, even though I do agree with the people that’re annoyed with the woman demanding to see the manager.
Hey, I got an idea. Let’s lie to our customers and make them look like idiots on national TV and the internet.
That’s customer service par excelance