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.
"Now, what are you talking about lawsuits for? the only time I've heard of any suit against anyone involving a same sex couple is when the couple was threatening to sue a hotel for kicking them out just for being a gay couple."
If you think there is no design to sue then you are either cosmically uninformed or not being honest.
It seems you just comment now to insult me and claim I know nothing about things I explained fairly clearly.
Until the last 20 years, no civilization that was stable has EVER elevated homosexuality to the same level of real marriage.
Nobody.
No matter how many times civilization fails, liberals keep steering us toward collapse.
I give him credit for realizing that it's all about changing the definition of marriage but I too would like to see him stick to one position.
The problem is when liberals discuss facts they lose so they need to wiggle, obfuscate and blur the lines of reality.
You are a liberal.
Why allow one perversion and not the others?
Consenting adults right?
"Claiming that someone else's marriage should be illegal because it is against your religion is like being angry with someone for eating a donut because you are on a diet" --Julia Butterfly Hill
We vote on definitions and laws, not moral standards.
Nobody made homosexual marriages illegal so you lie.
I don't decide perversion, God does.
Julia Hill reads like a moron. No wonder you quote her.
It's akin to walking up a flight of stairs (or down, if you like) and saying "Well, since I'm not gonna jump this entire flight of stairs in one bound, I shouldn't go anywhere" even if your own personal side-door/exit to your Destination happens to be one step in front of you, and those in line with you will have THEIR chance to go to THEIR door one after yours. (If my analogy is too jumbled feel free to ask for clarification, I'll be glad to give it :)
And, hoping you haven't skipped to the end of my comment without reading through, "redefining marriage to your own specific definition" implies dustin is trying to "reinvent the wheel," as it were, from scratch and etch it in stone ...&
It's akin to walking up a flight of stairs (or down, if you like) and saying "Well, since I'm not gonna jump this entire flight of stairs in one bound, I shouldn't go anywhere" even if your own personal side-door/exit to your Destination happens to be one step in front of you, and those in line with you will have THEIR chance to go to THEIR door one after yours. (If my analogy is too jumbled feel free to ask for clarification, I'll be glad to give it :)
And, hoping you haven't skipped to the end of my comment without reading through, "redefining marriage to your own specific definition" implies dustin is trying to "reinvent the wheel," as it were, from scratch and etch it in stone forever. (Huh??) Not so. I don't know your specific sexuality, Froggie-boy, but unless you're something other than heterosexual the "redefining" aspect of this argument does not bear the same weight for you as it does for people like dustin & me.
FURTHER, your ridicule of dustin DOES seem somewhat justified by your "calm/cool and collected" approach, in contrast to dustin's slight overreactive (and righteous) counters, as you HOP from reply to reply (aren't I just having too much fun here?), but minus the "redefinition" part of your argument, you would (again, assuming you are straight--if not, I appologize) already HAVE "your own specific definition" of marriage, thus being in no position to ridicule people less privileged for wanting the same rights, so ACCUSING THEM OF DENYING MARRIAGE TO THOSE BELOW THEM BEING BAD, WHERE DOES THAT PUT YOU? That, my amphibious friend, is hypocrisy right there ;-)
this is Traditional marriage accordingt to Arts Bible
Paganism openly accepts homosexuality as normal part of nature and Wants marriage Equality for everyone
Athiest but thats not a religion