I recently noticed that Dodge altered this commercial by removing the "silly little fairy" line. Without that line, the ad is pretty incoherent and pointless.
I suspected that the reason for the edit was protests from homosexual groups. Based on this article, I guess I was right.
What do you think?
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To: cicero's_son
If the fairy in question was obviously male, I would see something to this.
But the fairy is very female. Thoughts of a gay meaning never crossed my mind.
That said, it's a completely stupid commercial.
2 posted on
05/01/2006 5:49:26 PM PDT by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: cicero's_son
"Without that line, the ad is pretty incoherent and pointless."
Yes, it would be. My these fairies have thin skins, don't they?
3 posted on
05/01/2006 5:49:42 PM PDT by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: cicero's_son
Maybe they should just use the Slim Jim fairy. He looks like he could kick some butt.
5 posted on
05/01/2006 5:54:29 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cicero's_son
I noticed and thought the same thing. But about 10 minutes ago I saw it again and the "Silly little fairy" line was there again.
6 posted on
05/01/2006 5:54:46 PM PDT by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: cicero's_son
I think Bob Garfield has a tennis sweater and a harness load of Pomeranians, if you get my drift.
Real men don't even known what Pomeranians are. To us, all yappy little ankle-biting cat-wannabee dogs are the same.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
7 posted on
05/01/2006 5:55:52 PM PDT by
Criminal Number 18F
(Fighting Democrats, huh? Where the hell were they when I was fighting?)
To: cicero's_son
Sorry.. "Faery" (fairy) was never confused with "faggot" in the english language.
Dodge is pandering.
I guess Disney better go out and burn "Tinker Bell" at the stake.
8 posted on
05/01/2006 5:58:15 PM PDT by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: cicero's_son
I guess silly little Bobbie Garfield is upset.
To: cicero's_son
I think the fairy's revenge on the macho man subverts the tough guy image that they're trying to project onto the car. It suggests that macho men are really "fairies," or interchangeable with them. The fairy remains the powerful figure even if the car seems immune to that power.
Who do you suppose produces these ads, anyway?
11 posted on
05/01/2006 6:01:10 PM PDT by
dr_lew
To: cicero's_son
I thought the ad was kind of funny. I didn't even Make the "gay' connection!
12 posted on
05/01/2006 6:04:20 PM PDT by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
To: cicero's_son
Have it herding sheep and making love to Dodge pickup in its tent up in Montana while fire crackers go off in the background and its wife screams, " you ain't going up their for fishing!!" and then it is a serious commercial.
14 posted on
05/01/2006 6:04:43 PM PDT by
Porterville
(I gave at the State Franchise Board; leave me alone you blood sucking liberal.)
To: cicero's_son
Have it herding sheep and making love to Dodge pickup in its tent up in Montana while fire crackers go off in the background and its wife screams, " you ain't going up their for fishing!!" and then it is a serious commercial.
15 posted on
05/01/2006 6:04:44 PM PDT by
Porterville
(I gave at the State Franchise Board; leave me alone you blood sucking liberal.)
To: cicero's_son
Have it herding sheep and making love to Dodge pickup in its tent up in Montana while fire crackers go off in the background and its wife screams, " you ain't going up their for fishing!!" and then it is a serious commercial.
16 posted on
05/01/2006 6:04:45 PM PDT by
Porterville
(I gave at the State Franchise Board; leave me alone you blood sucking liberal.)
To: cicero's_son
What do you think? I think only a fairy would object to this.
18 posted on
05/01/2006 6:07:14 PM PDT by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: cicero's_son
hmmm.. silly little fairies complaining about a faery.
It is far more offesive to have homosexuals throwing hissy fits every time thet believe they sexual fetish is correctly exposed as disgusting.
19 posted on
05/01/2006 6:07:15 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: cicero's_son
21 posted on
05/01/2006 6:08:06 PM PDT by
Huck
(Hey look, I'm still here.)
To: cicero's_son
Actually, the burly dude said "Silly, little faerie", not "Silly, little fairy".
On another note, I'm guessing that Bob Garfield "doesn't like girls".
23 posted on
05/01/2006 6:11:21 PM PDT by
Redcloak
(Messing up perfectly good threads since 1998.)
To: cicero's_son
"What do you think?"
I think that sometimes a fairy is just a fairy...and that people that live for no reason other than to be offended will find offense wherever they look.
24 posted on
05/01/2006 6:12:02 PM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: cicero's_son
"So she wands him -- turning his Neanderthal getup into a wimpy tennis outfit, and his Doberman into four Pomeranians. "Oohhh!" he simpers I believe those are Schipperkes, not Pomeranians.
To: cicero's_son
This is the same Bob Garfield that trashed O'Reilly for going after a judge who suspended the sentence of a child molester.
So he is outraged at imagined homophobia, but dismissive of proven pedophilia.
34 posted on
05/01/2006 6:45:58 PM PDT by
Captainpaintball
(History is not written by those who win wars, but by those who win the war for the History Dept.)
To: cicero's_son
I saw both versions, and they still have the "silly little fairy" bit on the commercial. Think it's a shorter time version.
35 posted on
05/01/2006 6:48:39 PM PDT by
chemicalman
(Many have skeletons in their closets. In New Orleans, we have skeletons in our attics.)
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