Yesturday I was sitting outside a restaraunt with a friend of mine waiting to be seated, when I caught a glimpse of the cover to the Triangle, Austin’s gay/lesbian local zine. The cover was a shot of M&M, with the new pink color mixed into the pile, and the headline called for the homosexual community to stand together and vote for the pink M&M in order to help them get representation. Few questions spring to mind…
Is the candy industry the place to make a political statement?
Is the world ready for Pedro, the Gay M&M?
In the commercials, would his character be the blatantly gay type, or more subtle, closeted type?
Do pink M&M’s really help make the gay community more accepted?
Is it just me, or is this whole thing just really stupid?
Do you think it would make the M&M company change their logo from “Melts in your mouth?” to something a little less, um…well, you know.
Does the average person equate pink with gay? Nope, maybe with baby girls but not gay. Not only that, what does an M&M have to do with “Gay-Lesbian representation”? Not a damned thing.
At the same time I can see a few people in the homosexual community calling for a boycott(SP?) of M&M’s if pink isn’t the chosen color. I say a few because most homosexuals are smarter than to buy into this type of crap.
OK, I’m confused. Do the memebers of the Austin gay community know something I don’t? Has it been stated by the candy company that if pink becomes the new color, then then computer generated character used in commercials will be portrayed as gay?
How do they know that they won’t create a “Pink” character that spend it’s time chasing Green. Or a “Pink” character that’s just female and straight? Hell, they could make it a dog.