Doritos Superbowl Commercial

[Scottyboi]

I donno, I don't think the first one was that bad, yes those guys are stereotypically gay but commercials are so short that they *have* to establish that the men are gay in the first scene. i.e. the short short jeans, one has his legs crossed, the voice lilt.

And lets be honest, if a girl saw her boyfriend making those faces to some gay guys she kinda be freaked the fuck out. The dudes then depiction of "wait...shit!" isn't so much anti-gay as anti-people presuming he's gay.

 

[strangepoetry]

What were those drinks...by the pool?

huh? What do you mean?

 

[belamyi]

Then wouldn't the viewers with over-righteous prudishness be the problem, not the gays in the commercial?

Not according to the over-righteous prudes.

 

[strangepoetry]

Do Doritos make you gay?

Yeah, that's my problem with it: mixed messages. What is the commercial trying to say exactly? Not good.

 

[belamyi]

Yeah, that's my problem with it: mixed messages. What is the commercial trying to say exactly? Not good.

*insert facepalm gif*

 

[belamyi]

Is it something about dehydration?

Eating Doritos in direct sunlight?

I mean, who does that?

Censors. Really.

 

[belamyi]

The commercial isn't exactly pro-gay.

While Bruckheimer's Top Gun is.

 

[metta]

5,600 that were submitted to the company for its “Crash the Super Bowl” contest.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/01/25/Gay_Doritos_Ads_Wont_Air_During_Superbowl/

 

[Kulindahr]

The little sippy cuts that have umbrellas and maybe urine but probably an alcoholic mixed beverage in them? It's morning, right? That's when you clip hedges? So maybe it's mango juice?

Sorry, I'm terrible at identifying liquids...

I like 'em all.

BTW, of course it isn't morning. Everyone knows you clip the hedge as soon as you get up, and since you don't really want to do it, you sleep in until after lunchtime.

The silly thing is that the guy is wearing a shirt! Who wears a shirt when trimming a hedge on a nice sunny day!

 

[belamyi]

 

[hungrybrownbear]

I still think the dog collar one was funnier

 

[strangepoetry]

Garr...still trying to figure this damn video out...

Is the girl gay?

hehehe...

 

[Sausy]

First commercial was okay, but a bit stupid imo.

Now the second with the guy at the sauna was genius. Funny and hot at the same time.

Yep....the other suffered because of the flaminess of the sunbathing gay duo,and the reactions of the gardener and the woman..The other was funny AND pretty darn erotic!

 

[honooryuu]

i saw both commercials and thought they were pretty funny. i know they wont be aired on tv, but it would be entertaining to see

 

[pounder]

They don't go far enough: I think they should put them in blackface and replace the lilts and lisps in their voices with 'dis and 'dat so that they could lampoon two minorities at once.

I mean, it's only a 30-second commercial . . . , might as well get in all the cliches possible.

The second is no better -- it promotes the reduction of black men to some superdick status that negates their brains.

There were better ways to do the same thing without using the negative images. Too safe, with veiled anti-gay messages.

Two thumbs down.

I'm in full agreement on this one

 

[belamyi]

The commercials are simply idiotic, just like some many commercials that generally pass for funny... only some react negatively regarding nudity, some regarding lisps...

 

[ShihTzuTylenol]

Poor Barbara. I don't think she had a clue.

 

[HunterM]

After seeing the Tom/Barbara commercial a few times, I get what the fuss is all about. I get the hidden message now. Barbara used to be a man. She's now pissed coz if she knew Tom is attracted to men, she wouldn't have spent money for the sex change.

 

[mbamike]

I like the dog collar commercial the best.

 

[belamyi]

Okay, I am really over this trend of people getting upset when gay characters "act gay" on TV. The two gay men in this small clip still strike me and nice, sociable neighbors. If you're this angry at them for being stereotypical, what even makes you better than the heterosexuals that would make fun of them in real life?

"Nothing except stereotypes," my ass. It's a 30-second clip. I'm not exactly looking for a gripping backstory on every fucking character. Commercials at large are full of characters that are conjured up by simple stereotypes: the smart wife leading the stupid husband, the young single straight guy looking for women, the protective mom.

And hey, imagine now the gays next door could probably have a place in that. God fucking forbid. I'm beyond over the self-hate in the LBGT community.

It's always the same problem: it's never actually about the commercial itself, it's not about its stereotypes, nor about its "vagueness" or whatever... it's about the judgmental values of the haters which are still the central reference, even for those who oppose it.
If homosexuality were not such a rabid GODZILLA-HUGE issue in America, there wouldn't be so many leftist "activist" gay men outraged by this sort of advertisement... but oh, noes, God forbid us to put on the same footing, facing each other and sprinkling each other with their rabid foam, proud homos and fag-haters.