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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new Twix Halloween ad featuring a gender nonconforming child in a positive light has the maga...
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)I love Twix, too, but only the Lefties.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,707 posts)The online student is on the other side of the world.
My wife in the house has a headset.
I am outside.
That was fun.
Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Deuxcents
(16,248 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,409 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)Its reality. GET USED TO IT!
Initech
(100,081 posts)Moebym
(989 posts)can't afford to make my dental health worse than it already is - but I'm surprised at myself for actually liking this ad, given how I dislike most ads nowadays for being terribly overproduced and un-funny.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)Happy Halloween everyone.
haele
(12,660 posts)The amount of shocked, upset YouTube posters seemed to outnumber supportive YouTube posters two to one. Ended up having to cast it because I wasn't even sure the positive looking posts wouldn't editorialize inappropriately.
Seriously people. Boys and girls have always played dress-up and explored gender roles up through adolescence, and bullies have always sucked. Who wouldn't want a fairy Goth-Mother to be supportive and gently re-direct bullies for one?
Haele
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)Bunch of scared supposed grownups who failed both Kindergarten and Sunday School (as most self-identfy as Christian).
Easy -and lazy- to snark or destroy. Much harder to build or improve.
Haele
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)I suspect troll farms fuel a lot of this nonsense too.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Oh nothing to normal people like us. The right loves throwing big bitch fits over everything nowadays. Snowflakes gonna snowflake
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)I thought it was clever and funny.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)But you know wingers. Gotta cry and bitch about the evil "wokeness" I'd rather be woke than asleep. As a transgender person myself. I feel what that boy felt. Wearing a dress made me feel better as a kid as well. I kinda wish I had a witch for a nanny too. That would be awesome
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)I defy any Christian to show me a picture of Jesus wearing pants.
Besides which, why aren't they getting all hot under the armpits if they see women in pants?
Those idiots make no sense.
panader0
(25,816 posts)May have been bell bottoms now that I think of it......
dsc
(52,162 posts)but women wearing pants has become normalized in the larger culture.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Soldiers before the 18th century wore them. All religious leaders wear long, flowing cloaks. Some modern super heroes wear long tunics. This fear is a waste of energy and pointless. Let the fools choke on their own insecurities.
Equomba
(197 posts)obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, problems which put children and young adults at risk for heart disease. One 2 ounce bar has 286 calories, 11 grams of saturated fat, and 28 grams of sugar.
Beyond that, Mars is the 3rd largest privately held company in the U.S. They have been criticized for buying cocoa beans from West African farmers who reportedly use unpaid or poorly paid child laborers as far back as 2009, when they said they would work on only purchasing cocoa from suppliers who meet labor and environmental. In 2019, WAPO reported that they are nowhere close to doing so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/mars-chocolate-deforestation-climate-change-west-africa/
The Ivory Coast has lost more than 80 percent of its forests in the last 50 years, mainly to cocoa production.
Trees felled for a cocoa plantation inside the Scio Forest Reserve in western Ivory Coast.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-real-price-of-a-chocolate-bar-west-africas-rainforests
druidity33
(6,446 posts)and for the link. I mostly buy fair trade chocolate, but i admit to a predeliction for chocolate confections. I wish there were more fair trade chocolate companies that made candy bars! It's mostly just peanut butter cups...
sarisataka
(18,663 posts)Or find something disturbing about this, wouldn't it more apply to the child that is missing at the end?
Bettie
(16,110 posts)the mean kid, but the rest was cool.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Response to demmiblue (Original post)
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Never in my life would I have thought I would cry at a twix commercial.
Gender non conforming goth/punk here.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)...but for some strange reason I feel the sudden need for knee-high platform combat boots and black lipstick.
Piasladic
(1,160 posts)and not a shop open, but I definitely want a Twix. Probably for the best.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)But Im a die hard Kit-kat guy.