[mware]

How is this for irony. The New York Times advertises on the Rush Limbaugh radio show.

[jeffDavis1861]

Doesn't Johnson & Johnson also manufacture k-Y? I don't think they want to alienate the gays.

[punster]

This story fits Wildmon:

The man comes into see the psychiatrist. He tells the psychiatrist, "Doctor, I am in love with my horse."

The psychiatrist asks, "Is the horse male or female?"

The man screams, "Female!! What do you think I am? Queer?"

[Polycarp1]

Its all about the long term view of things.

What Johnson and Johnson isn't showing is the "after" picture ie a guy needing a pain killer because he's been dealing with the debilitating affects of HIV. The sad truth is that there is too often a direct correlation between those two "buff" gay guys in bed and that guy trying to keep going with a struggling immune system.

They do the same thing with heterosexuals as well, selling one thing while ignoring the long term results of what they're trying to push. When's the last time you saw an ad with a cute couple in bed saying "They're having fun now but two years later she'll need a hysterectomy because of HPV."

Its all part of the same thing. Get you to buy, buy, buy, now and not think about anything but the moment. In fact the sad thing is that Johnson and Johnson is a leading supplier of medical items and probably profits both when they seek to target an ad and when the disastrous complications arise (take your Tylenol now so you can "get it on" and then when you have oozing sores we'll sell you bandages).

That's the real moral outrage. The "gay" thing is just a symptom of a wider disease.

[John Robertson]

I don't care where companies try to sell their products. The argument that if I sell a Ford to a lesbian must mean that I "endorse her lifestyle" to me is loony (I don't sell Fords, I don't endorse her lifestyle, for the record).

But the ad is horrible. It's just...bad advertising.

Gays won't like it, on aesthetic grounds at least. And, it's clear pandering. Jeesh.

Not to mention, couldn't they have gone for an ache or pain somewhere else besides the...back?

[TheSpottedOwl]

I thought that pic was a joke, when I saw it on another thread. Just damn...

How do you manage to boycott Johnson & Johnson?

[stinkerpot65]

Those little aches and pains won't seem so important when they are spending eternity in hell.