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[apocalypsos]

The Snickers ad that ran during last month's Super Bowl in which two mechanics munching at each end of a candy bar end up mouth to mouth and then register their disgust, offended not only gays but also religious conservatives, it turns out. The Smoking Gun website on Monday posted numerous complaints filed with the FCC over the ad. One wrote of feeling "violated" by the ad, writing "God knows, I didn't turn on the superbowl [sic] expecting to be tricked into watching gay sex." Another wrote that the spot violated "our religious beliefs and exposes our children to obscene and disgusting material they are taught are wrong." Other letter writers complained about Prince's performance during halftime likening it to gay porn. In all, the FCC received about 150 complaints about the telecast -- a far cry from the tens of thousands of letters that rained down on the commission in the wake of the Janet Jackson "Nipplegate" scandal three years ago.

Call me crazy, but I think somebody was sick the day they discussed what constitutes sex.

Comments

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

You mean mouth to candy bar doesn't count?

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

BWAH!

now THAT is a survival skill.

[haitchem.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus! *chokes with mirth* How can I break it to these people that according to their definition of sex, most if not all of their womenfolk have been committing adultery with their snickers bars?? Should we look for a wave of 'snickers made me pregnant and now i have a caramel filled baby!' in World Weekly News? (or whatever aliens-roofied-us tabloid it is)

[lunardreamed.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! Tricked into watching gay sex! How will you cleanse your soul? The rainbow people are taking over world by Superbowl!

It always bugged me that people could be so offended by public, gay displays of affection (even something as innocuous as holding hands) and complain about the morals of society, but the same people have no problem with a hetero couple shoving their tongues down each other's throats.

[torificus.livejournal.com]

But on the plus side, people who are idiots like this TOTALLY had it coming. If I could distinguish those people on the street, I'd carry around pictures of gay porn, and flash it at them and say, "SURPRISE GAY SEX!"

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

I love how everyone is really, really upset that Prince was making his penis look THAT BIG.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Of course, this makes The Lady And The Tramp blatant pornography...and with animals to boot. *shudder*

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes forever*

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

If that advert aired here, it'd hailed as geniusly funny shit

[lalalallifer.livejournal.com]

Well, it kind of was geniously funny shit. All the outrage only makes it funnier.