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defrogNow that gays can get married to other gays in FOUR WHOLE STATES, the backlash of Big Gay Fear has begun, as you knew it would.
The National Organization for Marriage has prepared a national TV campaign full of Impending Gay Marriage Doom – complete with heavy weather metaphors – that really has to be seen to be believed.
It’s so jaw-droppingly WRONG that I can’t even bring myself to embed it. But you can watch it on YouTube here – and I recommend that you do so.
Otherwise, you won’t get the humor of this great mashup version mixing the ad with a Weather Girls video.
Which is really the only reason I’m mentioning the ad at all. Production design and sheer chutzpah aside (notice that bit about rainbows at the end?), the ad is the usual faux-earnest shit-stirring Fear Card that doesn’t say anything that hasn’t already been said (and debunked) about the ZOMG Homosexual Agenda® a hundred million times.
Human Rights Campaign has a good fact-check of the ad’s “claims” that’s worth examining in case you find yrself cornered by a NOM member in the break room or something. But as I’ve said before, when you trade in Big Fear, logic and facts beside the point.
So you might as well mock them with Weather Girls footage.
Enjoy it while you can, as NOM has spent the weekend patrolling YouTube and demanding takedowns of unauthorized footage of the auditions – as well as any clip they don’t own that shows them (like Maddow’s short segment on it), although people have been making copies and re-uploading them once they get taken down.
Alternately, you can take a page from Ana Marie Cox and mock their acronym, which on the Interwub is more likely to be mistaken for something else.
Nomnomnom,
This is dF
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EDITED TO ADD [a few minutes later]: You can also mock NOM's other acronym, 2M4M, which also means something else in Internetland.
Meanwhile, according to Violet Blue, it seems Amazon.com has decided to stop including "adult" titles in its sales ranking, which seems to mean no more LGBT books – for yr protection, apparently. WTF, Amazon?
So ... maybe we should take NOM a little more seriously after all?
The National Organization for Marriage has prepared a national TV campaign full of Impending Gay Marriage Doom – complete with heavy weather metaphors – that really has to be seen to be believed.
It’s so jaw-droppingly WRONG that I can’t even bring myself to embed it. But you can watch it on YouTube here – and I recommend that you do so.
Otherwise, you won’t get the humor of this great mashup version mixing the ad with a Weather Girls video.
Which is really the only reason I’m mentioning the ad at all. Production design and sheer chutzpah aside (notice that bit about rainbows at the end?), the ad is the usual faux-earnest shit-stirring Fear Card that doesn’t say anything that hasn’t already been said (and debunked) about the ZOMG Homosexual Agenda® a hundred million times.
Human Rights Campaign has a good fact-check of the ad’s “claims” that’s worth examining in case you find yrself cornered by a NOM member in the break room or something. But as I’ve said before, when you trade in Big Fear, logic and facts beside the point.
So you might as well mock them with Weather Girls footage.
Enjoy it while you can, as NOM has spent the weekend patrolling YouTube and demanding takedowns of unauthorized footage of the auditions – as well as any clip they don’t own that shows them (like Maddow’s short segment on it), although people have been making copies and re-uploading them once they get taken down.
Alternately, you can take a page from Ana Marie Cox and mock their acronym, which on the Interwub is more likely to be mistaken for something else.
Nomnomnom,
This is dF
##########
EDITED TO ADD [a few minutes later]: You can also mock NOM's other acronym, 2M4M, which also means something else in Internetland.
Meanwhile, according to Violet Blue, it seems Amazon.com has decided to stop including "adult" titles in its sales ranking, which seems to mean no more LGBT books – for yr protection, apparently. WTF, Amazon?
So ... maybe we should take NOM a little more seriously after all?
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