Posted on 02/08/2016 8:03:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Super Bowl Doritos ad featuring a woman who goes into premature labor when the father teases his unborn child with nacho chips has drawn both outrage and applause on social media.
On Super Bowl Sunday -- the biggest advertising day of the year in the US -- marketing giants pulled out every trick in the trade, enlisting celebrity power to peddle their brands and creating strange and wacky storylines to try and retain viewers' attention.
But while most ads garnered a chuckle at most, it was a Doritos commercial titled "Ultrasound" that had the internet freaking out, with some viewers calling the ad offensive and inappropriate, and others laughing at the outlandish humor.
In the ad, a pregnant woman is getting a routine ultrasound while her disinterested husband noshes on Doritos chips. The ultrasound monitor shows the baby reaching for the nacho until the mom throws it across the room, prompting it to initiate an early evacuation from the womb.
According to Twitter, it was the best and worst ad during Super Bowl 2016, with both viewers and celebrities weighing in.
"That Doritos ad was chilling," tweeted comedian Mindy Kaling.
Speaking on behalf of its fans, actor Dwayne Johnson disagreed, tweeting "That Doritos baby ultrasound commercial could win best commercial #SB50."
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But that’s not the sort of reaction which caught the attention of everyone else. The pro-abortion community, as embodied by NARAL, found the ad disgusting because it portrayed the fetus as (*gasp*) a person who might want some snack chips. Sarah Rumpf at National Review explains.
What's causing controversy is the portrayal of that unborn baby as one with an actual human personality. As NRO's Jay Nordlinger noted earlier, the ad dares to portray the unborn child as human, and "not a meaningless blob of protoplasm."
The pro-abortion activist group NARAL tweeted its disapproval, criticizing Doritos for "using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses."
#NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016
By showing a "fetus" as not a "clump of cells" but a tiny human being, Doritos exposed the weakness of the pro-abortion worldview: The commitment to denying the humanity of the unborn child is in conflict with basic common sense. Those who prefer to describe their side as "pro-choice" cannot tolerate any evidence that shows the human life that "choice" could be ending.
Counter-suit for the hero whistleblowers.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil”
~Isaiah 5:20
The Puppy-Monkey-Baby was super stupid.
I’ve seen Mindy Kalings act. I’m amazed she manages to get out of bed in the morning without help.
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“unborn child as human, and “not a meaningless blob of protoplasm.””
Saw that and got sick in my soul and physically!!!
Yeah, if we’re gonna try to talk about creepy ads, let’s talk about puppy-monkey-baby.
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-The Puppy-Monkey-Baby was super stupid-
That one was a little creepy IMO. I thought the doritos one was funny.
Sheep singing Queen, you don’t see that every day. lol
I thought it was hilarious. It opens with the doctor or technician saying, “Any day now,” implying the baby’s at full term, so how it’s anti-life I dunno.
Humanizing human fetuses makes it harder to justify murdering them. It’s so much easier to commit murder if you consider your victims to be sub-humans. History is full of examples too many to cite.
Yea it was but, I want one!
Of course unborn babies have personality. When I was pregnant last year (DD is 5 months)she would respond in utero to certain music, time of day, she would fall asleep (stop kicking) in the car (Dr was a 4 hr drive because it was a high risk pregnancy), I have a pic of her facepalming in the womb, she would suck her fingers (not her thumb). Also she would wake up and start kicking when we went into restaurants or got excited discussing food.
I went into labor one hour after having Ethiopian food and even after she was born she would get upset if she could smell food we were eating and she wasn’t nursing. I gave birth to a foodie.
At least not in my neck of the woods you don’t.
California, who knows. I once almost got hit on Harbor boulevard in Anaheim by a middle aged skateboarder with rainbow cornrows and spandex shorts and literally nothing else. California, meh.
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But! Does she like Doritos?
LOL. No, but she loves coffee, feta cheese, eggs and ranchero sauce.
I thought it was funny. The worst & most disturbing ad was the puppy-monkey-baby ad
Totally agree. WTF is a puppy-monkey-baby. Not funny.
“Humanizing human fetuses makes it harder to justify murdering them. It’s so much easier to commit murder if you consider your victims to be sub-humans. History is full of examples too many to cite.”
Despite absolute certainty that full term and even pre-term fetuses are HUMAN (by any reasonable meaning of the word) the Leftists continue to DENY the SCIENCE that proves it.
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