I have very little to talk about (again), so I'll ramble about some of the things I saw on CNN this morning.
Apparently there's some buzz about Prince's performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. I only listened to it*, so I thought everything was ok. I thought to myself that the only thing that could have made it better was if he exposed one of his breasts** on live TV.
...anyway.
So I'm watching CNN for who-remembers-what reason, and they show Prince's shadow and he has his guitar near his waist, so of course people thought it was a penis. (Pretty oddly shaped for a penis, but let's not go into that).
The people whose first reaction was that it was a penis (or even that it was representing one) are disturbed***. The people who noticed it and thought it was inappropriate are even more disturbed***.
Another Super Bowl related item, since it's the only newsworthy thing going on right now: The Snickers ad. For the uninitiated, the ad shows some guy eating an individually wrapped original brand Snickers candy bar, hereafter referred to as "Snickers" and/or**** "candy bar".
So the guy's eating a candy bar, and some other guy, apparently overcome by his desire for that rich chocolatey taste that only a Snickers can provide, begins to chew on the other end of the candy bar. In an awkward moment that seems all too implausible, they eventually eat their way from their respective endpoints to the center of the candy bar without noting the other's position, and their lips come together, an action hereafter referred to as a kiss.
Seeing as they are both (presumably) heterosexual men*****, the sudden realization that one has kissed the other disgusts both. The fact that they were disgusted by kissing another man has brought forth great anger from elements of the gay community.
To that, I can only say one thing: What is wrong with you faggots?******
The guy talking about it on CNN talked about it "setting the cause back 20 years", or however he said it. I fail to see how a commercial that didn't even involve any gay people (other than one of the alternate endings) can be seen as offensive, let alone setting back the cause of equal rights. As far as the number of years chosen, I was there for less than half of it, but I hear that the 80's were pretty damn gay.
It's not like gay people were taken by hetero settlers from their original homeland^ and forced to design clothing for rich plantation owners.
There was a third thing I was going to mention, but I was so astounded by how clever I am that I forget what it was.
I guess that's it, then.
*I wasn't watching...I didn't watch much of the Super Bowl at all this year. Neither team was very exciting to me, and I decided to play video games instead of paying attention to the commercials. Only reason I heard it instead of hearing about it later was because I was playing on a handheld.
**Men have breasts too, they just aren't normally called that. I think it's a funnier term, like with underpants vs. underwear.
***And not in the same way that I am.
****In case I don't use one or the other. I'm almost improvising here.
*****Reinforced by the fact that they're working under the hood of a vehicle
******Now, I'm using "faggot" pejoratively, not as slang for a gay, male or otherwise. You can be gay without being a faggot, and you can be a faggot without being gay. The faggots mentioned above, however, are gay faggots. It is their faggotry that I am targeting, not their sexual orientation. Their current indignation comes partially from their orientation, but mostly it's from the stick crammed up their collective asses.
Metaphorically speaking.
^Should I take a jab at France? If so, does this count?
Edit:
I would have put it in the comment, but apparently the img tag can't be used in comments, no doubt to prevent hilarious spam.
Also, I wonder what was up with that second thing. Maybe it was there to...you know...go somewhere else. *giggles like a kid*
