Do you find this offensive? On my ride home today the local sportsradio station was talking about how this ad was offensive to members of the homosexual community. A gay man even called to say he was offensive. I think they are missing the boat. If you sat and watched sports with my friends, you’d hear “That ain’t right” a lot. When someone dunks viciously on another pplayer, “that ain’t right”. When a linebacker blows up a quarterback, “that ain’t right”. When Albert Pujols crushes a 550′ jack, “that ain’t right”. It’s not a judgement on sexuality. I know plenty of gay men. None of them would welcome the picture above happening to them. They don’t play basketball just hoping some guy rubs their junk on them. Gay, straight or even my wife, nobody wants my junk on their face when playing sports. It’s about domination. Dominating someone like that on the basketball court, “that ain’t right”.
Reminds me of a job with a cell phone company I had 10 years ago. We ran an ad showing a young child in midair, waterwings on, jumping into his fathers open arms in a pool. We got hundreds of letters saying we supported tossing children. I had to write letters to these morons telling them we were sorry we offended them (they were morons) and that they misunderstood (they are morons) the advertising campaign. People looking for something to be offensive will find it wherever they look.
Well more fun for me as my drinking buddy/neighbor is officially moving to Taiwan. He will be gone for the next month and 2 weeks after returning, he is moving. His family will be following probably around end of year if they can get into school mid-year. I’m sad that I’m losing my friend for 2 years, but as much as he travels now, I probably won’t see him any less. I hope my new neighbors are cool because I have not had good luck until now.
Anyway, I’ll leave you with another video today for a song my son and I like on the game Rock Band.
