Oreo's Gay Pride Cookie: Progressive or Inappropriate?
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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.
The state has every reason to promote the marriage and reproduction of healthy, normal people.
Right......I'm sure that would turn out great.
No one is stopping them from living together, and doing everything a married couple do.
Are gays really that wrapped around the axle over their tax status? I don't see them crying about the unfairness of someone being taxed more because they work at a more economically valuable job.
Every one of these things can be resolved by removing the government interference in the decision.
It you wanna get technical, I could argue that because gay don't have the right to marry, they are being bereft of a pursuit of happiness that the Constitution promises.
They don't need the government to marry and be happy. They want the government to treat them as equals before the law as is their due. If they have to wait on the government before finding happiness they will likely die of old age first. The government doesn't make happiness and has none to offer. It has stolen goodies to offer in exchange for giving up your freedoms.
Well it's established or at least stipulated that they should be treated equally under the law...they aren't. So, with that in mind, how many of the 1000+ goodies can they achieve on their own without government intervention?
If you have a link to a list I'd be interested in seeing it.
http://www.religioustolerance...
I noticed a fair number on that list that can be done with some creative work and effort without the government. Again, while the government should obviously treat people the same, the reality is that they don't.
Rather than simply standing and waiting for the government to be equitable with those things they have no business controlling in the first place, carve out as much of these things as can be done on one's own (at least until such time as the situation is rectified). Contracts can be drawn up for much of the items on the list though certainly not all. Most people won't need everything on that list anyway. Obviously the more items one wishes to cover the greater the expense but then that's actually the case anyway, except that it is socialized so no one is aware of the cost since they cannot discern how much of their taxes are paying what (more than they should is the simple answer). Of course it's also unfair that those who pay taxes for these benefits are denied them, but that is the case for singles as well with regard to some or many of these items to which they could apply to single individuals, which is all a couple...
I noticed a fair number on that list that can be done with some creative work and effort without the government. Again, while the government should obviously treat people the same, the reality is that they don't.
Rather than simply standing and waiting for the government to be equitable with those things they have no business controlling in the first place, carve out as much of these things as can be done on one's own (at least until such time as the situation is rectified). Contracts can be drawn up for much of the items on the list though certainly not all. Most people won't need everything on that list anyway. Obviously the more items one wishes to cover the greater the expense but then that's actually the case anyway, except that it is socialized so no one is aware of the cost since they cannot discern how much of their taxes are paying what (more than they should is the simple answer). Of course it's also unfair that those who pay taxes for these benefits are denied them, but that is the case for singles as well with regard to some or many of these items to which they could apply to single individuals, which is all a couple really is anyway). It's not only homosexuals who wish to receive a state licensed marriage that are unfairly treated.
I am in no way attempting to diminish their grievances but rather to suggest that they approach it differently. They have the right to live as they see fit here and now and do not need to wait for permission. What they should receive as taxpayers is equal treatment, but wouldn't it be better to make that equal treatment such that the government is removed from this sphere of people's lives rather than increasing the size of its umbrella to include them?
Getting married without the state isn't evasion. They aren't fugitives from the law for deciding they don't need the state's sanction to call each other spouses. And sure, fight for government recognition, or rather the goody bag, but in the meantime, don't live like you need their permission to live as you will. That's giving them even more power than they have.
The simple fact is that homosexuality confers absolutely no reproductive advantage for the affected organism. It is a mental disorder because the mind is not properly adapted to the reproductive function of the body. Homosexual reproduction is only possible through medical intervention.
Anything that does not promote the survival of an organism's genotype is a maladaptation. Call it a dysfunction, a disorder, a defect, a disease, whatever. The word isn't important. The fact remains that something isn't working properly.
Another popular theory is that it's evolution's way of preventing overpopulation, by keeping a small percentage of each species as homosexual - there's as much evidence for that theory as for yours.
If a trait conferred a selective advantage, then it wouldn't do it by killing the organism. Beneficial adaptations only get passed on because they confer a reproductive advantage to the organism. And that would require the organism to be able to reproduce.
That's a popular theory precisely for the same reason everything else is popular: the stupidity of the populace. Explain exactly how a trait like that would get passed on.
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu...
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter...
http://www.apa.org/monitor/fe...
If you'd like to educate yourself to the REAL facts.
http://www.rollingstone.com/p...
Why on earth do you think this kind of evolutionary f*-up has a future?
http://www.news-medical.net/n...
If it's so typical in nature than there has to be a beneficial reasons why there homosexuality exists. And why do I think it has a future? Because gays have been running around since the time of the Ancient Romans and, uh, thousands of years later they seem to be still going strong. That seems like a future to me.
So, I'm not wrong. Homosexuality is a dysfunction that leads to the end of an organism's line.