Now I realize most of you who visit this site (those very few of you) almost never, if ever, watch the Spike TV Channel....and maybe that is the simple answer to my following commentary.
Spike TV has a new ad for the channel that has two women licking the same cone of ice cream. For clarity's sake, it is a close up of just their faces, the ice cream cone is center frame, and each woman licks the cone and looks at the camera seductively.
I don't think I need to spell out the connotations of this commercial for you. What bugs me is not this commercial per say, but the fact that a similar commercial was summarily yanked the day after it aired during the super bowl.
That commercial was for snickers and it featured two men who were so into eating the same snickers bar that they end up kissing. This, of course, offended people in relation to their views on issues of homosexuality.
Not wanting to get sidetracked on a rant about that commercial being pulled, I will just say this: No one (to my knowledge) has protested Spike TV's ad, much less gotten the ad pulled. Granted Spike TV has a much smaller audience than the Super Bowl, but you can't tell me that Spike TV's ad isn't being left alone because of America's patriarchal, homophobic society's double standard of assualting anything remotely 'gay' while simultaneously fantasizing about anything 'lesbian'.
Spike TV Ad
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