Teh One Who Knocks
03-22-2019, 10:56 AM
By Hemant Mehta - The Friendly Atheist
The evangelical Christian group One Million Moms (Twitter count: 3,647) is going after the makers of Kit Kat bars because they’re reminding consumers of “male genitalia.”
Here: Watch the ad. See if you can figure out what the problem is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPur6wk8rw
The inappropriate song playing in this commercial is called “Work It” by artist Missy Elliott and has no place in a candy bar commercial. This song is about sex, and the lyrics are extremely offensive. The song includes a word for male genitalia that is bleeped out by an elephant trumpet: “If ya got a big (phrrrrr), let me search it.” Everyone knows children repeat what they hear.
The commercial uses only a couple of lines from the song (hey, it’s only a 15-second spot), and most of it is gibberish. There’s no way a kid watches that commercial and comes away with sexual thoughts.
That said, I may have whispered “I want that in my mouth” a few times while watching it.
Leave it to right-wing Christians to watch a candy commercial and create a petition because it’ll inspire children to… make an elephant noise.
The evangelical Christian group One Million Moms (Twitter count: 3,647) is going after the makers of Kit Kat bars because they’re reminding consumers of “male genitalia.”
Here: Watch the ad. See if you can figure out what the problem is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPur6wk8rw
The inappropriate song playing in this commercial is called “Work It” by artist Missy Elliott and has no place in a candy bar commercial. This song is about sex, and the lyrics are extremely offensive. The song includes a word for male genitalia that is bleeped out by an elephant trumpet: “If ya got a big (phrrrrr), let me search it.” Everyone knows children repeat what they hear.
The commercial uses only a couple of lines from the song (hey, it’s only a 15-second spot), and most of it is gibberish. There’s no way a kid watches that commercial and comes away with sexual thoughts.
That said, I may have whispered “I want that in my mouth” a few times while watching it.
Leave it to right-wing Christians to watch a candy commercial and create a petition because it’ll inspire children to… make an elephant noise.