Oreo's Gay Pride Cookie: Progressive or Inappropriate?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/27 14:22:40
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Here's a new way to celebrate Gay Pride Month -- eat an Oreo cookie. Kraft Foods posted a rainbow-colored, gay pride-themed picture of an Oreo cookie on Facebook on Monday, with the text: "June 25 | Pride" and "Proudly support love!" And while 217,816 Facebook users had "liked" the post as of Wednesday morning, others are calling for a boycott, Reuters reports.
Among the 35,535 comments, one person wrote: "By (sic) Oreo. I'll do my business elsewhere!" Another commenter said: "thought Oreos were a family cookie." But fans wrote things like, "Very glad to support a company like Oreo that joins the campaign for civil rights!"
Basil Maglaris, Kraft's associate director of corporate affairs, told Reuters: "As a company, Kraft Foods has a proud history of celebrating diversity and inclusiveness. We feel the Oreo ad is a fun reflection of our values." But you can't buy this Oreo at your local grocery store. The fine print under the picture reads: "Made with creme colors that do not exist."
Among the 35,535 comments, one person wrote: "By (sic) Oreo. I'll do my business elsewhere!" Another commenter said: "thought Oreos were a family cookie." But fans wrote things like, "Very glad to support a company like Oreo that joins the campaign for civil rights!"
Basil Maglaris, Kraft's associate director of corporate affairs, told Reuters: "As a company, Kraft Foods has a proud history of celebrating diversity and inclusiveness. We feel the Oreo ad is a fun reflection of our values." But you can't buy this Oreo at your local grocery store. The fine print under the picture reads: "Made with creme colors that do not exist."
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+31I really do applaud Oreos, I really don't get why people are getting upset. Those who are gay have fought as much as other minorities and still getting bad-mouthed and treated unequally. The idea is brilliant, yet sadly, I wish I could eat one :3 Also even though Oreo's is a family treat, I think the knowledge of diverse people such as the lgbt that are in the world is great for everyone of age in the family to know cause we are all one and equal. Homosexuals are just as sexual as straights, so everyone needs to stop being ignorant.
"Normal people." Normality is subjective. To me, believing in a "loving" deity who supposedly knows everything and no event happens without his allowing it to (see Calvinist concept of predestination - a major foundation in the beliefs of Westboro Baptist Church) who put both the serpent and the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden and had foreknowledge of what was going to happen and then punished his creations for doing something he already knew they'd do like a playwright punishing actors for p...
"Normal people." Normality is subjective. To me, believing in a "loving" deity who supposedly knows everything and no event happens without his allowing it to (see Calvinist concept of predestination - a major foundation in the beliefs of Westboro Baptist Church) who put both the serpent and the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden and had foreknowledge of what was going to happen and then punished his creations for doing something he already knew they'd do like a playwright punishing actors for performing his play and created the angel who would eventually rebel against him to become Satan (and again, no event happens without God's willingness or pre-decision for it to happen) is "abnormal."
Now, don't you start accusing straight people of raping homosexuals just because they are homos. The rapists rape because they are losers that can't get it up any other way. Rape is a form of perversion as well as it perverts the same biological drive.
Or, what if was opposite? Some gays were heterophobic. How would that make you feel? Marriage between a man and a woman is illegal, sorry. Under the law you can't be a married couple even though you love that person with all of your heart. Do you understand what we deal with?
homosexauls are not perverts you dirty breeder