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Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« on: May 17, 2012, 06:27:36 PM »
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The female M&M is totally sexualized. The males are not.

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see a pic of the female M&M being stalked here: http://blog.sfgate.com/mmagowan/2012/05/12/new-mms-package-shows-female-getting-stalked/



http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/sms-anyone/

What are kids supposed to think about females and males when they repeatedly see these kinds of narratives? The gender stereotyping in the animated world is extreme and it’s damaging in the same way that people finally caught on that it was wrong to use a cartoon camel to sell cigarettes to kids.

Ms. Green is everywhere: on TV, at Party City stores, in toys, games, magazines, and billboards. There is no way to protect our kids from seeing this offensive stereotype. Not to mention it’s candy marketed to kids.

Please go to M&Ms Facebook page and ask them to stop sexualizing female M & Ms. Our kids deserve more than to see females depicted in this degrading way.

Unemployment at 15+%. Gas at $4. Deficit and debt at unsustainable levels. No 0bama budget in three years. And THIS is what they break their pick on.

It'd be sad if it wasn't insane.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2012, 06:34:45 PM »
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Please go to M&Ms Facebook page and ask them to stop sexualizing female M & Ms.

Now there's something you don't read everyday.

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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2012, 06:36:36 PM »
OMG, you people are ridiculous. Seriously, aren't there some starving seals or something somewhere you can get all up in arms about?   :whatever:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2012, 06:36:51 PM »
Actually the male M&M acts like a fool, but who gives a crap, the candy is damn good, especially the peanut butter M&M's and the new coconut M&M's.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2012, 06:38:59 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on May 17, 2012, 06:36:51 PM
Actually the male M&M acts like a fool, but who gives a crap, the candy is damn good, especially the peanut butter M&M's and the new coconut M&M's.

Coconut :puke:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2012, 06:41:04 PM »
Don't care for M&M's at all.
Absolutely detest milk chocolate. Yuck!
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2012, 06:41:59 PM »
Quote from: Skul on May 17, 2012, 06:41:04 PM
Don't care for M&M's at all.
Absolutely detest milk chocolate. Yuck!

Something is wrong with you. I love all chocolate.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2012, 06:44:55 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:38:59 PM
Coconut :puke:

It's awesome! I love all the M&M's though.

BTW, the comments from the OP's link :lmao:

http://blog.sfgate.com/mmagowan/2012/05/12/new-mms-package-shows-female-getting-stalked/

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Margot...you really need to get over yourself, get a life and get a real job. And as you suggested, I did go to M&M's Facebook page and I told them to keep up the good work and that the ads are hilarious...unless you are so uptight that you have completely lost any semblance of a sense of humor.

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You have totally misinterpreted the artwork on the wrapper. The guy M & M is a Democratic Spy doing Obama's footwork. He's checking out the fine, conservative 'green' lady M & M so he can play on redistributing her wealth.

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Amazing! You've managed to make an M&Ms add into a feminist platform against sexism! Your insecurities are evident, but your jealousy of a green cartoon M&M is just weird. Why is it that women who have never been objectified by a man are the most up in arms about the objectification of women?! And in this case, over a cartoon candy? Only in SF could this sort of paranoia be considered printable. Margo you're just looking too hard for affirmation that you have value in this line of work and in this world. You should just become a man.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2012, 06:45:13 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:38:59 PM
Coconut :puke:

You made me sad. miskie <3 coconut....  
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2012, 06:47:19 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:41:59 PM
Something is wrong with you. I love all chocolate.
That's disgusting crap. No flavor, sugar, milk, dusting of chocolate powder. Eeewww.
At least go semi-sweet.  :naughty:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2012, 06:50:45 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:36:36 PM
OMG, you people are ridiculous. Seriously, aren't there some starving seals or something somewhere you can get all up in arms about?   :whatever:
I think this just demonstrates that progressives are insane. I'm not using the word as a descriptive label. I mean that progressives are really insane. they are not capable of thinking like normal people.

I can only wallow in the DU cesspool of hate for short periods of time. They live every day consumed by hate and fantasies of murder. They are unable to function in a normal society.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2012, 06:54:13 PM »
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2012, 06:55:34 PM »
The funny thing is this, most of the people at DU think it's silly that this woman is getting all upset over this, but their ideology is reflected in what this woman wrote, get your panties in a wad or whatever the phrase is, get upset at everything because everything is offensive, they vote for people like this.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2012, 06:55:56 PM »
Quote from: Skul on May 17, 2012, 06:47:19 PM
That's disgusting crap. No flavor, sugar, milk, dusting of chocolate powder. Eeewww.
At least go semi-sweet.  :naughty:

You forget that we were all raised on American chocolate. You must be an illegal alien.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2012, 06:56:30 PM »
Quote from: miskie on May 17, 2012, 06:45:13 PM
You made me sad. miskie <3 coconut....  

I'll give you my coconut...   :naughty:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2012, 06:57:58 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on May 17, 2012, 06:50:45 PM
I think this just demonstrates that progressives are insane. I'm not using the word as a descriptive label. I mean that progressives are really insane. they are not capable of thinking like normal people.

I can only wallow in the DU cesspool of hate for short periods of time. They live every day consumed by hate and fantasies of murder. They are unable to function in a normal society.

And these are the very same people who said Bush wasn't bright.  I wonder if they ever read the stuff they type, after they type it.  They might be surprised at how it looks.

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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2012, 07:00:03 PM »

EOM.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2012, 07:01:13 PM »
Does this mean that the few heterosexual DU males are aroused by an animated M&M?
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2012, 07:02:37 PM »
Here is the luminary.  No seriously, check out the name of the link to her picture...it says "/luminaries/" before her name.

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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2012, 07:03:22 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:55:56 PM
You forget that we were all raised on American chocolate. You must be an illegal alien.
That's a Yankee thing.

Wait a minute.
Miskie, you didn't just do that, did you?
Tell me you didn't do that. :lmao:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2012, 07:22:12 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 07:02:37 PM
Here is the luminary.  No seriously, check out the name of the link to her picture...it says "/luminaries/" before her name.



The only way she should be considered a "luminary" would be if she set herself on fire. :fuelfire:
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2012, 07:22:56 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 17, 2012, 06:38:59 PM
Coconut :puke:
My sentiments exactly.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2012, 07:28:11 PM »
Quote from: Skul on May 17, 2012, 07:03:22 PM
That's a Yankee thing.

Wait a minute.
Miskie, you didn't just do that, did you?
Tell me you didn't do that. :lmao:

Naaa - That's not one of mine. But it could be. I -Heart- sarcasm.
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Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2012, 07:33:47 PM »
Quote from: movie buff on May 17, 2012, 07:22:56 PM
My sentiments exactly.

Isn't the texture of coconut repulsive?

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Re: Re: Now they're going to boycott sexist M&Ms
« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2012, 07:36:50 PM »
Oh my freaking goodness, is there no end the the ridiculous shit the DUmmies will complain about?  I mean really, when I saw the thread title, I thought it had to be an "Onion" headline.
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