So, you know that Florida woman who shoots missiles into cars? Got arrested a couple days ago? Think she might be interested in a little side job when she makes bail? Could we maybe just call her and see?

Can you send this to George Will? Maybe if he gets a brand-new BMW he will stop writing rape apologia!

He was doing the goat a favor because now it gets to brag to all the other goats about being a victim.

They knew everyone would be talking about the ad, since it aired around the time of the Pride Parade. Italian LGBTQ people have no civil rights to speak of, no domestic partnerships, nothing, and this is a very current issue. Findus just had to tweak its usual formula (no faces, just hands and the product) a bit, and…

Advertising is the great God. It reaches everyone, everywhere. Why shouldn't their idealized families shown in commercials be gay every once in a while?

How many pasta ads in Italy do you think depict straight families, husbands and wives? I will be happy to link you to a few of many.

Not really because there are a million commercials like it with straight couples. Random relationship stuff being used to sell unrelated things is a normalized part of advertisement. If you think it's weird that happens period then good for you I guess? The rest of us think it's weird that you suddenly care so much…

It's really common though for commercials for just about everything to center on hetero family scenes. Sometimes, they're just families being cute, sometimes, they're sentimental family moments, but up until the last couple years they've always been pretty 'standard' families (and in the states, usually white).

I'm used to food adverts being about "HEY GUYZ AT PIZZA HUT OUR NEW KRAZY KRUST PIZZA HAS A KRUST SO FULL OF TURDUCKENS YOU'LL SHIT BLOOD FOR WEEKS" so I'm strangely OK with microwavable pasta.

Yes. Absolutely. This is the very first time ever that someone has used something other than ingredients and recipes to sell food. Ever. I have never, ever seen a pretty girl being used to shill food of any kind. Nor a heterosexual couple. Ever. This is brand new.

Doesn't need to be straight, either.

If your description of the ad is correct (I can't watch youtube on this computer and am too lazy at this particular minute to swivel my chair 180 degrees and login to my other one), then this is beyond casually including a gay couple in their ad and more like actively promoting gay acceptance, like a PSA that is also…

You know, I don't think you go far enough. I appreciate your concern for safety but you're really letting parents off the hook here. I propose the following:

I just finished reading Melissa Harris-Perry's Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, I highly recommend it if you're interested in this topic. I'm a white American, but even I knew "articulate" is a seriously racialized, backhanded compliment.

Please keep talking to us. We are idiots and some are even bigger idiots with mean hearts. Some of us want to be less of an idiot but all of the googling in the world can't help if you don't know what you're searching for. This has been a really important conversation to read as someone who has only become self aware…

Sometimes a microphone is actually a penis.

White people do call each other and themselves articulate, but if we don't grow up or live around Black people we don't know its loaded racial connotation. Its one of those things we have to fuck up first to learn about. Its also one of the things that White people are going to get touchy about, because we really do…