So, could this Christmas ad (from Britain) *be* any more “totes adorbs?”
[youtube]http://youtu.be/iccscUFY860[/youtube]
Cute, right? I mean, we’re talking tugging at the heart strings on a Pixar-level “First ten minutes of ‘Up'” levels. So, who could be offended by this ad?
Uptight, bitter, insecure, gay people, apparently, because the ad has been labeled “heterosexist.”
According to Gay Star News the homosexuals of my native land are miffed at what they perceive as the heteronormativity of the ad. As several British tweeters pointed out, penguins are known to be a gay-friendly species.
Because, you know, heterosexual relationships are so unusual in the Animal Kingdom.
Ghey folk must have it pretty good if they’re whining about crap like this.
East German she male Olympians meet blacks that can win something other than short distance runs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/sports/holes-in-kenyas-doping-system-cast-a-shadow-on-all-its-runners.html?_r=0
“He said his first indication that Kenyans might be doping came in the 1980s, when athletes began to use Italian doctors as agents.”
In America, gay-bashings are denounced by people of all political persuasions and religions. In Russia, gay bashings are lauded. Who’s persecuted?
In America, the worst most gay people can expect their parents to react to their coming out is to be disowned. In sub-Saharan Africa, gay people would envy such a fate. Who’s persecuted?
In America, the worst that will happen to two grooms is that a baker will decline to bake them a cake. In Iran, the grooms can expect to be hanged side by side. Who’s persecuted?
I suspect that the statist media does so little reporting on the plights of gays in truly repressive societies because to do so would expose the statist gays in America and the rest of Western civilization as the spoiled, whiny brats and petty fascists that they are.
Who’s to say the penguins are hetro? It just might be a celebration of the gay penguins of the world. Has anyone checked the sex of said penguins? 🙂 But really, we may have come too far when this is something someone actually complains about. So now str8’s can’t project themselves on society?
No, no….they aren’t reacting to the sex of the two penguins, see, because they can’t tell (btw, no research has ever found supposedly gay penguins to be copulating). No, they are reacting to the fact that the three couples shown were all heterosexual.
I’m sorry, but isn’t it obvious that the KID isn’t gay if those are the couples he notices?
They’re here, they’re straight, get used to it.
Let’s see, depending on what statistics you use, 90-96% of the population is heterosexual. If you’re having only one ad, and especially one that’s aimed at parents, why would you not go for the largest demographic so long as you are not denigrating anyone else?
People who get upset and offended at this have forgotten their childhoods and need to get a sense of proportion.
The Penguins are stuffed animals-they don’t have sexual organs.
I think it’s cute and if this is what the gay left wants to whine about then they have too much time on their hands. Maybe they should start researching about persecution in those places the left thinks aren’t really bad-you know where the Muslims control the government and being gay only gets you put in jail if you’re lucky.
Bitter people that want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
Why don’t the homosexists go complain in Iran or Saudi Arabia about how gays are treated? Oh, wait…
Regards,
Peter H.
Depends on how you define “copulating.” Like nearly all birds, male penguins do not have a penis nor anything resembling one*, so “copulation” in the buttsecks sense cannot occur if two male penguins pair-bond for whatever reason. But I’ve read of cases in which male penguins went through the motions of humping (but it was unclear whether they “spilled seed”.)
*Ostriches and their kin, ducks, geese, and swans are among the few groups of birds in which males have a sort of pseudo-penis, though the organ is quite different in design from a mammalian schlong.
Um, remember Calvin and Hobbes? Although the toy tiger was really just the boy’s alter ego, they had very different personalities.
And in my personal experience, gay kids DO notice opposite sex couples and react positively to heterosexual romance in movies, etc.
So, it’s not impossible for the kid to be gay (or, at least, he’ll figure out that he is after puberty hits), yet imagine that the boy penguin wants to be with a girl penguin.
Not that anyone axed, but to wit: Mammalian penises vary greatly in form, but all of them are essentially hoses (i.e., O-shaped in cross-section) through which both semen and urine pass.
Non-mammalian “pseudo-penises”, as found in ostriches and ducks and crocodiles and some sharks, etc., are essentially deep troughs (U-shaped in cross-section) and are used only to conduct semen, not for peeing.
Just in case you’re ever on Jeopardy! and “The Penis Mightier” is the category… now you’re prepared.