Hey! It's soap box time!
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obliviousally_ljGood lord, this journal is turning into my rant-tastic soap box. I'd apologize, but I'm not sorry because I like bitching.
Tony sent me this today. What started as a simple review on a food blog about some new Jello flavors turned into a crusade against child abuse. Over what? The Jello Temptations commercial wherein parents threaten their children with tales of what will happen if they eat the pudding cups that are not for them. The Youtube link doesn't seem to be up anymore, but that's what I've gleaned from the comments.
Speaking of comments:
Firstly, I don't think Kraft is going to miss or even notice your business is gone. I love that mindset. That you think you're SO important as a consumer that a huge company is actually going to notice you're not purchasing their products anymore. You're such the special snowflake, I'm sure.
'Child abuse', 'child terrorism'. The mere thought that giving children a scare is akin to locking them up in the basement and beating them. These people are fucking idiots. My childhood was filled with scare tatics to keep me from doing or getting into dumb shit. It only worked marginally, I ended up witha healthy love for all things scary. But it certianly wasn't abuse and it certianly wasn't 'terrorism'. These are the same kind of parents who want soft, safe playground toys. Who shelter their children from all 'bad' things, no matter how petty they are (this commercial is in the petty category, by the way) and their kids end up all soft and squishy and terrified of everything.
I could go into the 'I grew up when...' rant, but I know most people on my f-list are my around age or older and grew up when there wasn't this gross over-protectiveness of children. In fact, I thought the parents of my friends down the street were too over-protective because they had to be in when the street lights came on. The rest of us were allowed to run the neighborhood after dark, with the biggest threats being each other.
Thankfully, there is some sense in the comments, but it's met with the typical YOU'RE NOT RAISING YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT, I RAISED MINE THIS WAY AND IT'S THE PROPER WAY YOU'RE AN AWFUL PARENT bullshit that all entitled parents pull on those they deem too 'lax' in their parenting. This person seems to have the only middle-ground sense of the whole thing. It's fine to not like the commercial, for whatever reason, but there ARE worse things to worry about in the world right now.
I don't know about you, but I find Bill Cosby kind of terrifying.
Now I'm going to play Devil's Advocate. As a disclaimer, I really don't have an opinion either way on this. I love when Anonymous trolls people, but it seems like it's too much work to troll a bunch of dudes who, if they're any manner of internet savvy, will probably have heard about the whole thing beforehand and the prank will be moot.
Now, my Devil's Advocate stance on this is: how is it NOT okay for guys to string along chicks, but it's TOTES OKAY LOL for girls to do that to guys?(I know there's probably a lot of guys participating in this, but I'm speaking on simple terms here)
Do girls and feminists fail to remember that the male population does indeed have feelings? That they can be mentally and emotionally fucked with just like your precious little female heads can? This is the NUMBER ONE thing I hate about the whole feminist/modern women's rights bullshit: it's not about equal rights. It's not. It's about girls bitching until they get what they want - whatever they want - because if anyone says 'no' to a girl, they're a mysognist and a terrible person.
Now, don't get me wrong, as a female I enjoy my rights that women before me fought for. But I'm also keenly aware that they fought for EQUAL rights and that doesn't mean that just because girls can do things that they have to beat men into the ground over it. You can't have one without the other. You can't ride on your high horse while stomping you deem 'less' than you into the ground. That's what many obnoxiously loud feminists do. Men are less than them, for whatever reason. Despite the fact that we're all created equal and we all have traits that balance each other out.
I really wanted to go through some of the blogs of people who were all LOL I'M GONNA DO THIS IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOO CRAZY FUNNY and see if they had any contradictory posts, but then I realized I didn't give that much of a fuck.
Oh my god, does feminism get on my last nerve. My mindset about it now is that I support you, if you're not a raging cunt.
Tony sent me this today. What started as a simple review on a food blog about some new Jello flavors turned into a crusade against child abuse. Over what? The Jello Temptations commercial wherein parents threaten their children with tales of what will happen if they eat the pudding cups that are not for them. The Youtube link doesn't seem to be up anymore, but that's what I've gleaned from the comments.
Speaking of comments:
Oh, I am so glad that someone else thinks the Jello "Temptations" commercial is one of the worse they have ever seen. Parents being TERRORIST to their own sweet innocent little children over such a superficial thing like jello! I am horrified that grown men and women in your company actually thought this was a good way to sell their product. I will not be buying any of your products until this commerical is taken off the air.
Hey...I just saw a newer one...kids are in a tent...the parents scared them and they went running in the house....horrible and scary. I would never, never buy this product. Talk about child abuse, now in the media.
The TV advertising for this product is child abuse and should, in my opinion, be punished by jail time! It is child terrorism and needs to be addressed by someone in authority. I'm certainly not going to buy any more Jello products and will be looking to avoid all Kraft products as well!
the new jello temptations commercial that shows the parents telling 2 small children what happens to children who take their moms jello temptations-being put in a dark place with snakes for 100 years demonstrates a sadistic method of parenting. It should be pulled immediately. I have 4 children, ages 18-30 and have never spanked or threatened them with real or imagined forms of terror-which doesnt take much for children as young as the ones on your commercial. needless to say, your products have been crossed off our shopping lists from now on. I will post this message on facebook today.
Are you freakin' crazy???? Scaring little children is child abuse.
Firstly, I don't think Kraft is going to miss or even notice your business is gone. I love that mindset. That you think you're SO important as a consumer that a huge company is actually going to notice you're not purchasing their products anymore. You're such the special snowflake, I'm sure.
'Child abuse', 'child terrorism'. The mere thought that giving children a scare is akin to locking them up in the basement and beating them. These people are fucking idiots. My childhood was filled with scare tatics to keep me from doing or getting into dumb shit. It only worked marginally, I ended up witha healthy love for all things scary. But it certianly wasn't abuse and it certianly wasn't 'terrorism'. These are the same kind of parents who want soft, safe playground toys. Who shelter their children from all 'bad' things, no matter how petty they are (this commercial is in the petty category, by the way) and their kids end up all soft and squishy and terrified of everything.
I could go into the 'I grew up when...' rant, but I know most people on my f-list are my around age or older and grew up when there wasn't this gross over-protectiveness of children. In fact, I thought the parents of my friends down the street were too over-protective because they had to be in when the street lights came on. The rest of us were allowed to run the neighborhood after dark, with the biggest threats being each other.
Thankfully, there is some sense in the comments, but it's met with the typical YOU'RE NOT RAISING YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT, I RAISED MINE THIS WAY AND IT'S THE PROPER WAY YOU'RE AN AWFUL PARENT bullshit that all entitled parents pull on those they deem too 'lax' in their parenting. This person seems to have the only middle-ground sense of the whole thing. It's fine to not like the commercial, for whatever reason, but there ARE worse things to worry about in the world right now.
Where's Bill Cosby? I know he knows nothing about this physiological child abuse with the use of Jell-O. We want the corporation to pull this commercial immediately or we will call for a boycott of Jell-O products.
I don't know about you, but I find Bill Cosby kind of terrifying.
Now I'm going to play Devil's Advocate. As a disclaimer, I really don't have an opinion either way on this. I love when Anonymous trolls people, but it seems like it's too much work to troll a bunch of dudes who, if they're any manner of internet savvy, will probably have heard about the whole thing beforehand and the prank will be moot.
For Teh Lulz of the Day: Mark you calendar, bookmark this webcam: If all goes according to plan, on May 13th @ 7:30 PM, by the pay phones on 46th & Broadway, there will either be a pissed-off pack of angry OkCupid members looking for love in all the wrong places, or the inaugural get-together of the greatest group of BFFs 4chan has ever inadvertently assembled.
[runningscared.]
Now, my Devil's Advocate stance on this is: how is it NOT okay for guys to string along chicks, but it's TOTES OKAY LOL for girls to do that to guys?(I know there's probably a lot of guys participating in this, but I'm speaking on simple terms here)
Do girls and feminists fail to remember that the male population does indeed have feelings? That they can be mentally and emotionally fucked with just like your precious little female heads can? This is the NUMBER ONE thing I hate about the whole feminist/modern women's rights bullshit: it's not about equal rights. It's not. It's about girls bitching until they get what they want - whatever they want - because if anyone says 'no' to a girl, they're a mysognist and a terrible person.
Now, don't get me wrong, as a female I enjoy my rights that women before me fought for. But I'm also keenly aware that they fought for EQUAL rights and that doesn't mean that just because girls can do things that they have to beat men into the ground over it. You can't have one without the other. You can't ride on your high horse while stomping you deem 'less' than you into the ground. That's what many obnoxiously loud feminists do. Men are less than them, for whatever reason. Despite the fact that we're all created equal and we all have traits that balance each other out.
I really wanted to go through some of the blogs of people who were all LOL I'M GONNA DO THIS IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOO CRAZY FUNNY and see if they had any contradictory posts, but then I realized I didn't give that much of a fuck.
Oh my god, does feminism get on my last nerve. My mindset about it now is that I support you, if you're not a raging cunt.
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Date: 2011-03-26 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 10:52 pm (UTC)Should I start being subtle and insulting instead and tell people they 'Can't Understand Normal Thinking'?
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:17 am (UTC)those comments are the EXACT reason i steer clear of 90% of other parents.
people are taking their special snowflakes too seriously.
for god's sake, it's a (moderately) funny commercial about parents trying to scare kids off from eating their special sweets.
pfffft. whatever. parents have been doing this for years, with other things. "quit doing that or you'll go blind!" etc, etc.
people need to get the hell over themselves.
>:T
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:39 am (UTC)It's good to instill a sense of fear into your children, I think. If you don't, they learn very quickly that they can manipulate you to their whims. I was great at this, especially with lying and crying to get my way. Why? Because I could get whatever I wanted from my grandmother like that. My uncle, on the other hand...not to much.
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Date: 2011-03-27 03:50 am (UTC)I wish people screaming for equality would actually take into consideration the definition of the word and that you can't have a little more on your side to make you feel better or be superior to whatever it is you're 'against'. Gender and racial privilege arguments really piss me off, too. I stand very neutral on a lot of things in both of those categories and I have opinions and beliefs that go both ways on each. But if you dare say anything contrary or that isn't extremely forward liberal thinking, you're a bad person or your words get twisted up so they're hearing what they want to hear and not actually what you're saying. I had this problem in awhile back in regards to the second Iron Man movie, of all things. I didn't like that they changed Rhodey's actor to Don Cheadle, who looked NOTHING like Terrance Howard and I mentioned that the casting directors should have found someone, at least, closer in skintone to Howard and I was accused of whitewashing and racewank.
Of course, I just brushed my shoulders off and kept going. :3
It is really upsetting when feminists and other people adhere to the 'strong man' stereotype. Yeah, I'm guilty of it myself, I'd never say I wasn't. It's that social mindset many American kids grow up with. But if you're going to keep the male stereotype, you can't expect people to not keep the female stereotype. One can't be without the other. If you want to portray females as strong, independent and the 'opposite' of what their stereotypes are you have to portray males as the opposite of their stereotypes, too.
I see a lot of that on entertainment sites, as well. But people don't take into account that very often men are objectified the way women are because, well, they're men. They're supposed to be ripped and good-looking, right? I also see, often, actresses who have put on some healthy weight be called out for being 'too fat', which is absolutely ridiculous. One instance I remember is Britney Spears' last awards performance, I believe. She'd put on some relatively healthy weight and was wearing a two-piece outfit and she got ragged on HARD about having a bit of meat on her bones. God forbid someone look like something other than a stick in Hollywood.
(not that I'm saying stick figures are bad, some exceptionally skinny people look great and it's not the result of an eating disorder or something like that, they're simply naturally slender)