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By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) June 1 | McDonald's Corporation in France has released a new advert campaign aimed at the LGBT community titled; "Come As You Are," to identify McDonald restaurants as a place where people can feel free to be themselves.
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Refreshing...you'd never see anything that topical here in the USA, at least not from McDonalds. Cute lad, oblivious father...but aren't they all?
Thanks for the smile, Brody.
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... couldn't be run in North America, or anywhere else for that matter.
With regard to the U.S. market, if Kellogg's and Procter & Gamble (and I'm only supposing here) two of the most virulently homophobic American entities of all time within the broader corporate landscape can do complete about faces in not just their advertising policy but their corporate culture, why not McDonald's? Or any other for that matter?
How quickly we seem to have forgotten Kellogg's highly controversial, and yes, mind-boggling, "thighs" commercials of a few years ago; this from a company founded by, and bearing his name, a man who throughout his entire life-time espoused radical theories with regard to the treatment of the aberration of homosexuality and that his entire Wellness concept (perhaps an early foundation of what would become today's holistic approach to medicine) was riddled with Christian values so off-the-wall that our nascent "American Family Values" types could very well be writhing from bouts of orgasmic rapture as they trip over one another rushing, were they able, to kneel at his feet in supplication. Not to be forgotten either is that perhaps that as little as just a decade ago, Procter & Gamble too was the darling of the "Mr. and Mrs. American Family Values" set, which recently metamorphosed into becoming a champion for Gay Equality in the workplace, challenging both City (Cincinnati) and State (Ohio) Law respecting their right to provide benefits for employees enjoying same-sex, and not heterosexual, relationships.
The French-language McDonald's ad pales in comparison, and shouldn't even be a blip on the collective radar of the American conscience, let alone any others.
Warren C. E. Austin
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But...But...Warren, the boy was so cute.
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Hey Warren,
Have you ever seen the Progressive Car Insurance company's series of ads where people come in and have custom car insurance whipped up for them? One of those commercials featured two young men who sure appeared gay to me (light stereotypical traits). But it was sort of a low impact thing, probably only noiticed by those of us with a gay bent. But maybe not, because it was my wife who pointed this out to me. YAY Progressive.
Max
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For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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... you're being cheeky; and yes, I did like it; and yes, I do feel they should just show the damn thing with no modifications at all, regardless of where they are screening it ... Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Outer Mongolia for that matter, substituting sub-titles (if necessary) for the relevant language of the region.
Warren C. E. Austin
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Bill asked: "Does this ad make you hungry for McDonalds?" Well, gauging from the comments on the site, I'm sure Bill's mouth isn't watering for anything... it's full of foot! ::-)
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Personally I hate all the McDonalds ads that just show someone sitting in a McDonalds eating. I want to see the FOOD advertised, not the people eating it.
So the ad doesn't make me hungry, but neither do most McDonalds ads.
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