{"id":1557,"date":"2008-06-24T20:38:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T01:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2017-09-29T23:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T04:50:44","slug":"commercial-with-gay-kiss-pulled-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/24\/commercial-with-gay-kiss-pulled-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial with a Gay Kiss Pulled in the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More proof that complaining works or, as I prefer to say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease\u00a0(you haven&#8217;t\u00a0forgotten the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/16\/obama-sock-monkey-toy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama sock monkey<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/19\/targeting-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sex target<\/a>\u00a0yet, have you?).\u00a0 The commercial below was set to run in the U.K. for five weeks, but has been pulled due to complaints that a guy-on-guy smooch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1028794\/Heinz-mayonnaise-advert-men-kissing-set-complained-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forces parents to talk to their children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6sgNg_2eM38[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Remember Ellen, though?\u00a0 And look what happened to her!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/adweek.blogs.com\/adfreak\/2008\/06\/gay-kiss-unnerv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AdFreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More proof that complaining works or, as I prefer to say, the squeaky wheel gets the grease\u00a0(you haven&#8217;t\u00a0forgotten the Obama sock monkey and the sex target\u00a0yet, have you?).\u00a0 The commercial below was set to run in the U.K. for five weeks, but has been pulled due to complaints that a guy-on-guy smooch forces parents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1811,54],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71882,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/71882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}