GoDaddy Insanity
The GoDaddy.com spot during the SuperBowl seems to be the talk of the town. Well, sort of. There's some headshaking by the moral indignation crowd. The NFL and Fox seemed to be able to feign enough outrage that the ad was shown only once not twice. It has made some splash in the news, but not a "wardrobe malfunction" type of cannonball. It seems that the media, living in the age of feel-good George W. Bush-Michael Powell-Republican party moral cleanliness (wars, poverty, backbreaking deficits aside--the whole "moral values" charade is the government fighting the war it can against the population) that is upon us all, wants to make a story out of it. But there's just not much there.
As you probably know, the ad makes fun of last year's infamous "wardrobe malfunction." The ad has a suggestive though nudity-free wardrobe failure occuring before a censorship board which is full of old men and women some of who, at the sight of a broken strap on a woman's top, are feeble enough that they apparently need oxygen.
I'm not sure where the "inappropriateness" and the outrage is directed toward. The ad is suggestive, yes, but shows no nudity and slightly less skin than what you see from cheerleaders on an NFL game's sidelines and half of the Fox tv schedule. Is suggestive no longer allowed? Can't adults have a chuckle at suggestiveness, or is the message supposed to be that, not only are you not allowed to see anything, but you just better be working on getting those dirty thoughts out of your head.
And, by what's said in the link above, it seems that it's inappropriate to make fun of the infamous wardrobe malfunction. The incident is serious stuff (no snickering, boys and girls) and will not be tolerated. The election results, boys and girls, clearly show that this kind of thing will not be tolerated in the Land of Moral Values! So don't you dare make light of it because moral cleanliness is our highest calling! (sidenote: seriously, I made this shit up and did not steal anything from John Ashcroft or Michael Powell. Honest!)
A good part of American culture--particularly in the advertising industry--is based on making fun of other things. We're out of ideas, so everything is a farce of something else. I mean, what kind of humorless bastards have we become if we can't make fun of things that are in our collective memory, things we've all witnessed? We joke about Reagan, Clinton, and Bush. We joke about Britney, P Diddy, and Sly Stallone. We joke about bodily functions, precocious kids, and down-and-out stupid movies. The wardrobe malfunction of the previous year--and the overblown moral outrage and penance that followed--is something so ridiculous and something seen by just about everyone that it has to be made fun of. This country started a war that has killed over 100,000 people and is still going over a shitload of weapons that didn't exist. That is tragic and ridiculous and we need shit to laugh at because, really, if you think about it, if any real threat comes our way, we're fucked, dude, because the simps running our country are more interested in ideology than practicality.
It's just sick that an ad like this can generate more "moral" outrage than does a wrong war that kills 100,000 people and is killing and maiming thousands of our soldiers; health insurance costs that are out of control and leaving millions without protection and with the prospect of losing everything if they or their families ever get seriously ill; a war policy that advocates torture as an acceptable means of treating the enemy (who, lo and behold, just happen to be human beings too); a massive national debt that is going to crush some future generation, all created in the name of contemporary political expediency.
Where is the moral outrage for all of this, you people with panties in a knot over the GoDaddy.com commercial? Your moral outrage is a despicable show, a farce of what truly matters, and is meaningless until you truly care about people on this earth who are actually dying and suffering.
I've reached the end here and have worked myself into a frenzy.
As you probably know, the ad makes fun of last year's infamous "wardrobe malfunction." The ad has a suggestive though nudity-free wardrobe failure occuring before a censorship board which is full of old men and women some of who, at the sight of a broken strap on a woman's top, are feeble enough that they apparently need oxygen.
I'm not sure where the "inappropriateness" and the outrage is directed toward. The ad is suggestive, yes, but shows no nudity and slightly less skin than what you see from cheerleaders on an NFL game's sidelines and half of the Fox tv schedule. Is suggestive no longer allowed? Can't adults have a chuckle at suggestiveness, or is the message supposed to be that, not only are you not allowed to see anything, but you just better be working on getting those dirty thoughts out of your head.
And, by what's said in the link above, it seems that it's inappropriate to make fun of the infamous wardrobe malfunction. The incident is serious stuff (no snickering, boys and girls) and will not be tolerated. The election results, boys and girls, clearly show that this kind of thing will not be tolerated in the Land of Moral Values! So don't you dare make light of it because moral cleanliness is our highest calling! (sidenote: seriously, I made this shit up and did not steal anything from John Ashcroft or Michael Powell. Honest!)
A good part of American culture--particularly in the advertising industry--is based on making fun of other things. We're out of ideas, so everything is a farce of something else. I mean, what kind of humorless bastards have we become if we can't make fun of things that are in our collective memory, things we've all witnessed? We joke about Reagan, Clinton, and Bush. We joke about Britney, P Diddy, and Sly Stallone. We joke about bodily functions, precocious kids, and down-and-out stupid movies. The wardrobe malfunction of the previous year--and the overblown moral outrage and penance that followed--is something so ridiculous and something seen by just about everyone that it has to be made fun of. This country started a war that has killed over 100,000 people and is still going over a shitload of weapons that didn't exist. That is tragic and ridiculous and we need shit to laugh at because, really, if you think about it, if any real threat comes our way, we're fucked, dude, because the simps running our country are more interested in ideology than practicality.
It's just sick that an ad like this can generate more "moral" outrage than does a wrong war that kills 100,000 people and is killing and maiming thousands of our soldiers; health insurance costs that are out of control and leaving millions without protection and with the prospect of losing everything if they or their families ever get seriously ill; a war policy that advocates torture as an acceptable means of treating the enemy (who, lo and behold, just happen to be human beings too); a massive national debt that is going to crush some future generation, all created in the name of contemporary political expediency.
Where is the moral outrage for all of this, you people with panties in a knot over the GoDaddy.com commercial? Your moral outrage is a despicable show, a farce of what truly matters, and is meaningless until you truly care about people on this earth who are actually dying and suffering.
I've reached the end here and have worked myself into a frenzy.
2 Comments:
Dude, I am beside myself every day. I just want to attend a fundementalist church and start spouting diatribes at them every Sunday. That's the ticket; we can transform America by becoming evangelicals!
I think the thing is that there are a lot of non-fundamentalist churchgoers out there who aren't marching in lockstep with these Nazis, but do we ever from them?
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