Snickers commercial controversy

[Wilkin]

So I was listening to some talk radio this morning, and the host were talking about how the Mars company is getting complaints from people concerning the Super Bowl commercial with the two mechanics kissing.

One thing I noticed, both in the report of who was complaining and the calls on the show, was that the only people who had a problem with it were anyone but the people the commercial was about - straight men. Homosexual people have a problem with it because a straight man had a problem with kissing another straight man. The point of the commercial was to amuse the audience and make them laugh, and it chose to do it through exaggeration, one of the most basic forms of comedy.

As far as I see, the commercial in no way said that homosexuality is wrong or that it's a bad thing. It merely put two common people in an unexpectedly funny situation.

But there was one straight man who called the talk show who had a problem with it. He said when the commercial ended, his son looked at him, wondering what was so funny about it, and the man didn't know how to explain it to him. The man said it was disgusting, and that the Super Bowl is a family program that shouldn't be corrupted by those kinds of commercials. He then went to on say that if it's ever aired again, it should be at late night where children won't see it. To me, he's saying a Snickers commercial should only be shown when Girls Gone Wild comes on. And of course, he swore off Snickers. Naturally.

Now, I'm interested in if anyone in our diverse community has/had a problem with it, either ethically, religiously (I'm not sure about chardish's stance on homosexuality), or otherwise, because I for one don't want to live in an age where I can't enjoy a good ol' joke without it being criticized relentlessly.