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Candy Ad Features Girl With Disability

Thursday, 8 September 2016, 11:00 BFH Uncategorized 27

This was sent in by Petrus with no editorialization on his part.

It’s an ad for Maltese’s, which I assume are malted milk balls.

I think the comments are going to be all over the map. I’m not going to offer my opinion until later on.

27 Comments on Candy Ad Features Girl With Disability

  10. Yeah,… but does it make you want to buy their candy? Because that’s what commercials are for. But more and more advertising agencies have become SJW’s. Like all the biracial couples you see in ads now. They’re in about 20% of commercials even though they make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. Now the gay ads have begun and soon there will be “transgendered” actors in commercials. I don’t need Madison Avenue telling me how to coexist with any of these people, I’ve been doing it for fifty years.

  12. I couldn’t understand 2/3 of it but was she saying something that her friends mistook?

    Anyway, I guess crips talking about sex is where we’re at these days. I’m in a cultural time warp.

  14. Is she a stand up comic (no disrepect intended) by chance? Now I realize they cut/ retake/ edit these things, but overall, her delivery was good, almost too good, right down to the demonstrative candy spill. Well done.

  16. If people with disabilities are supposed to be full participants in life that includes self deprecating humor.

    From an advertising point the ad works because it breaks through.

    From a human standpoint the ad works because the girl is portrayed as someone maximizing the talents she has, not a professional grievance victim.

  17. If it was an ad for tampons or menstral pads, or maybe a feminine douche product, or maybe even for booze to beer, I might have liked it. I have no prob with the “shtick” of the disabled woman’s spasms being misinterpreted by her new boyfriend. That’s kinda funny. I just think the product, which I would consider largely for children, belongs in the “story” being told. I didn’t learn anything about the product and why I should buy it. I guess this ad was really only about the virtue-signaling of the candy company and the ad agency: “Look at us! We’re so cool and SJW-ish!”

  18. Does it sell candy?
    That is a great point.
    Ads and their makers thinking they are social justice warriors is another great point.

    I think it makes an impact for brand recognition, heck, I posted it.
    So, I think it succeeds on that level.

    Candy is for children, agreed. But I also think it’s for the age that is depicted in the ad.
    I like the ad.
    Why?
    Because I think it’s important for people with disabilities to be seen as an entire human being, particularly at that age.
    They do get left in the dust too often.
    Do I think this reflects a reality, that they are in a circle of friends and they hang on her words and she’s out and about.. etc.?

    I’d like to think so.

    Have I been caught with my heart bleeding?
    Maybe.

    This is the type of ad that, given the right circumstances, I might roll my eyes at.

  19. I think the candy company should have fixed the girl up with a special candy container that would keep the candy from flying out so she wouldn’t have to eat candy that fell on the ground when she had a spasm.

  20. No sir i don’t like it.

    I don’t want t,o be the one answering the questions when a youngster sees this. It’s not clever enough to entertain them in their innocence it just begs an explanation.

  21. Change the female to male, and the feminazis would be screaming about sexism and rape. And no, I won’t be buying the candy either. Sex may sell, but too many people and companies are taking a cavalier attitude towards sex, and have been doing so for the past several decades. I’m actually finding myself to be offended.

  23. @BFH – “Because I think it’s important for people with ____________ to be seen as an entire human being…”

    Careful, this is the exact same philosophy that the progs have used for shoving every tasteless piece of art, policy or lifestyle in my face for the last fifty years. Fill in the blank with the cause-du-jour. I give this vid two eyes rolled. The fact is, the girl in the wheelchair will never, ever, ever be seen or will ever feel whole. There is much virtue in that for them and those that interact with them, though. As a society, I think we’ve done well with them and with great care, acceptance and kindness. In the third world their lives are very short and very hard, barely subsisting off of tin cup shakin’s on a dusty street.

    Having said that, yes, absolutely, disabled folks are faced with incredible hardship we can barely imagine just getting out of bed and trying to get through a day and my heart goes out and my wallet opens. Is that look from your aging folks that silently says “is this where we’ve come to? I have lived too long” or explaining it to your tween-age daughter valiantly trying be brought up in a traditional household worth a few tasteless laughs? As far as I’m concerned it’s just another small step on the road of socialist cultural degeneracy and, in my mind, brings the disabled folks down a notch or two on the virtue scale. Sadly, this vid will probably end up on one of those fetish porn sites soon. Just as likely that this hit me in a particularly prickly mood and I’m just puking in public (more vids that need to go away) to no affect other than to irk the reader. Your call.

  24. @BFH – “Because I think it’s important for people with ____________ to be seen as an entire human being…”

    The left, however, takes that template and plugs whatever the hell they feel like plugging into the blank.
    I don’t think the phrase, with the blank, is necessarily a lefty statement.
    It depends on what you plug in.

    “Because I think it’s important for people with gender fluidity to be seen as an entire human being…”

    doesn’t work as well as

    “Because I think it’s important for people with no arms and legs to be seen as an entire human being…”

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