Posted on 07/07/2005 4:04:57 PM PDT by Responsibility1st
It baffles me how some major corporations, whose success depends on the support of American families, show contempt for the values of such families. I am currently awaiting responses from two major corporations to letters I sent pointing out such inconsistencies. Wal-Mart, which has historically been responsive to pro-family concerns, continues to sell a Carmen Electra video promising a "striptease-inspired workout" that "introduces you to the striptease basics." Meanwhile, Kraft Foods has paid $25,000 to sponsor the "Gay Games" in Chicago this summer--an event known as much for after-hours sexual activity as for on-field athletic competition. And now, FRC has discovered yet another example of corporate devotion to the homosexual agenda.
A full-page ad for Tylenol PM pain reliever appears in the July 19 issue of the pro-homosexual magazine The Advocate. It shows a photo of two bare-chested men lying beside each other in bed. Under one is the caption, "His backache is keeping him up." Under the other is the caption, "His boyfriend's backache is keeping him up." Tylenol is produced by Johnson & Johnson--the same company that makes the famous baby powder. Contact Johnson & Johnson CEO William C. Weldon at 732-524-0400 or through the website below to let him know you are offended by this amoral advertising strategy.
I'm NOT EVEN going there........
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I dson't use Tylenol anyway.
Should be an ad for viagra instead.
It was supposed to read " and his boyfriends' ache for back is keeping him UP"
I guess only homosexuals are supposed to "act-up" when they see something they don't like - eh?
Poppycock. Get LOUD about it.
This is silly. Gays are here, and they're not going anywhere. As long as they keep their business to themselves, fine--battle law changes, battle normalizing gay relationships as being the equal of marriage, don't let them introduce their agenda in the classroom.
But are we so small that we don't want gays to get headache relief?
If a person were injured by the side of the road, I'd ask if he needs help--I wouldn't ask "Are you gay?" first. This kind of thing is juvenile and hateful, and it disperses our focus. We should be counter-protesting ACT UP, stopping them from teaching their crap to our kids, etc. This childish stuff wastes valuable time and effort.
Tell me again how absurd the idea is that a large chunk of America won't be happy until we live in a theocracy.
Support the RED CHINESE, buy Wal Mart.
After-hours "pole vault?"
Voice of Al Michaels: "Tonight's pole vault competition is brought to you by ZIMA, yes ZIMA, the drink for following up stiff competition. ZIMA, when you want 'zomething in my ass'".
Voice of John Madden: "Al, for those viewers who are morons, the obective of pole vaulting is to vault over a horizontal pole with a vertical pole."
I'll use Tylenol when they are allowed to sell in the U.S. the more effective codeine laced versions our U.K. friends and many others are free to buy over the counter.
Stop making so much sense.
I thought maybe someone would have a good Carmen Electra pic posted. Darn.
Major hurling chunks later pingout.
Ahh, but you see that is what is at issue. They WON'T keep to themselves. They keep chipping away at moral standards, and won't stop until their moral, political, ethical standards are the norm.
don't let them introduce their agenda in the classroom.
Little by little, inch by inch, the gay agenda is moving forward. This post is NOT about denying them headache relief. It's just to point out how one side of the cultural war is making progess.
I'm NOT EVEN going there........"
Your last fudge pack,
Has hurt your back.
Now take this pill,
And pay our bill.
Awww. You don't get it, do you? You must be about 17 years old. To us older folks, such ads are offensive. Look it up if you can't imagine what it means.
I used there contact form to send a message.
I ended with a question about why they are using a pain reliever with a sleep-aid to sell sex. If you are in pain and want to sleep, sex is just the opposite of that.
There was an ad a while back for a laundry product that did the same thing, showed to guys in bed. Their clothes were in a pile on the floor.
If the homosexual community is not obsessed with sex, why is it that they accept ads such as this that just reinforce that idea? They'll talk about love and commitment out of one side of their mouths, but then ok ads like this out of the other side. This ads is representative of their lifestyle, everything is sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex.
Has J&J used sexual innuendo like that with a normal couple in any of its ads?
I'm more worried about what these people are doing looking at gay magazines.
I see your point but I don't think this is such a big deal. I stated more than once what I thought were the real issues we should be battling over. This is not one of them. I mean, seriously, who cares what they do in a gay magazine? I could see the point if it were in a mainstream magazine, but not there.
You're offended by such ads being in gay magazines? What are you doing looking in such magazines in the first place? And that's the most offensive thing you find in them?
Nice try at the ad hominem attack, but most older folks I know don't spend their time worrying about the contents of these kinds of publications.
Why are you expecting corporations to have family or any other set of values? their value is always the bottom line. Gays tend to have higher than average disposable income - the reason Coors hired Mary Cheney as a marketing laison with the gays.. as ever, $$$
Response: Why are you suprised? The main connection between persons, firms or entities in our society is cash flow.
While I agree with you in part, I don't think the solution is all that simple. The porn peddlers, the gay activists, the liberal fanatics all tell us the same thing:
You dont like the filth on TV? Turn it off.
You dont like the vulgarity on the radio? Dont listen to it.
Internet porn hammering your computer? Dont go online.
Basically live like a hermit excluded from the world they are molding for you and your children.
To this I say.... NO WAY!!!
I will exercise my right to let J & J know when they are on the wrong side of a cultural and moral issue.
I wont just go away.
Slippery Slope Rule Applies.
This year gay activism is found in gay magazines, and America goes,"so what?"
But do you expect the gay rights activists to be happy with that level of exposure and live happily ever after??
Not Freakin Likely!
They just don't want ads in gay magazines. They wont stop till they get full national coverage in all forms of media.
It's their stated agenda.
A person has seen that a corporation has engaged in behavior he doesn't like, and he's suggesting people call them up on the phone and complain, and perhaps choose to buy a different pain reliever. I can see how that's exactly like living under a government run by God with forced religious observance.</sarcasm>
There are two types of libertarians:
1. Those who really believe that a society of people living according to their own tastes and conscience is the acme of societal evolution.
2. Those who view people living according to their own tastes and conscience as a good thing, so long as those tastes and conscience are very close to their own. If not, those "not like me" people are a fascist threat to free society.
Seems to me you're firmly ensconced in group 2, and definitely far more of an anti-religion reactionary than a libertarian or conservative. What's next, a warning about the dangers of miscegenation?
You're right you know. I cant remember right off hand where I can link to this, but did you know Hollywood makes more $$$ and gets better box office receiptes from PG and PG-13 movies?
Yet the majority of movies that they produce are the R-rated ones.
Why? Becasue they are pushing their sex and violence agenda on America even at the expense of the almighty dollar.
Good for you! Yours is the right approach!
Good point.
Know your enemy.
In this case I'll just, uh, assume...
And then, here's the best part: They tell us we're out of touch with society, and isolationist.
Oh now hey wait a minute there...I don't look at gay mags! And I'm probably not going to bother calling the Tylenol folks and get a burr under my saddle about this. I'm just saying that they probaly read the gay mags for intel.
Of course you don't. Whoever said you did? Not that there'd be anything WRONG with it if you did. For educational purposes... ;)
LOL! Just so you know, I'm very, very, very happy playing on the "team" I currently play on.
Must be a compression injury...
Pushing back is very easy.
Just don't buy it, and teach your children how best to spend their entertainment time and dollars.
And if more people just refused to purchase cable TV, porn mags and gossip papers, guess what?
Those R-X rated entertainment mediums would shrivel up and go bankrupt.
And don't forget we're intolerant homophobes as well.
I'm more your number one type guy. I believe, like Margaret Thatcher, that there is no such thing as society, just individuals living their lives.
People indignant about victimless crimes hold a notion of a society that is being degraded by others acting in ways that have no direct effect on the complainant. Imagining some horrid coarsening of society, ie, the feeling that somewhere, somehow, someone is doing something unapproved, the impulse is to reorganize the culture so that their concept of immorality either cannot take place, or is made illegal.
As a result, huge swaths of the population are forced underground or into criminality, prisons overflowing with the perps of victimless crimes. Prison life, alas, actuality *is* coarsening.
What happens, then, is many people are needlessly coarsened by the exercise of power in the hands of those who think they are protecting society from being coarsened. And the more coarseness they see, the louder the cries for more criminalization, which just makes matters worse.
The pride in such imperious moralizing passes me by.
If this were true, you would not get your panties in a bind about a guy calling up an aspirin company, much less compare it to the evil of advocating a theocracy. You want to see what a theocracy looks like, get yourself a subscription to the Voice of the Martyrs newsletter. You will find that theocrats bear zero resemblance to people who call aspirin companies because they don't like gay content.
Imagining some horrid coarsening of society, ie, the feeling that somewhere, somehow, someone is doing something unapproved,
...something unapproved, like calling up an aspirin company...Forgive the religious metaphor, but it must be hard to see your monitor with that huge plank sticking out of your eye.
Ads that increase revenue to such magazines are damaging to society as a whole because they strengthen the ability of the homo propagandists to spread their message. Anything with strengthens that movement is dangerous and damaging to a healthy society. The only exception would be ads which point out the extreme danger of homosexuality to society and most of all to its practictioners. It is the Culture of Death.
I watch nothing on cable that I don't wish to and often find great programs. However, don't let me stop you from cutting off your nose to spite your face.
By all means use the power of consumer choice for whatever you choose. Don't expect others to join you in priggery or ignore it, though. That's their choice.
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