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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else feel these ads are offensive?  Seriously, eight hundred HER love??  FFS!

So heteronormative and kinda cringy.[/quote]

Look, man… this is exactly the kinda thing that makes regular people lose their minds and start rage-voting for guys in red hats.

It’s a diamond ad. A diamond ad. Mervis isn’t out here writing queer theory dissertations — they’re trying to sell shiny rocks to dudes who panic-buy jewelry the week before Christmas. And somehow we’ve turned that into a referendum on heteronormativity?

This is the problem. It’s like we’ve all become these hall monitors of feelings, hovering over every billboard like, “Uh, excuse me, problematic!” And the average person — the people who are just trying to get through their day without losing their job or screaming into a bag of pretzels — they see this and go, Oh my god, can we not do this right now?

Because when you start calling a diamond ad “offensive,” people think the world’s gone nuts. They don’t think, “Wow, what a nuanced cultural critique.” They think, “If even THIS is a problem, what’s left?” And then the pendulum swings, man. Hard. Straight into the arms of the guy who promises to stop the insanity — even if that guy is, you know, completely nuts in his own special way.

But that’s how we get here: performative outrage over a slogan meant for people who shop in strip malls. And suddenly everyone’s polarized, and someone’s yelling, “This is why I’m voting for Trump!” while holding a Cinnabon.

It’s exhausting. It’s America. And no one’s getting the diamond.[/quote]

ok but you have to agree the motto: “one, eight hundred HER LOVE” is completely heteronormative; you do agree, right?[/quote]

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