I’d be far more concerned about something like the Chobani yogurt commercial that features two lesbians who have spent the night together in bed.
Most commercials alluding to gay relationships are very discreet (merely shows two men or two women together, sitting on a couch or something) and you almost have to read “the gay thing” into the commercial. The old Volkswagen ad with the two men picking up a smelly old easy chair was alleged by some to be a “gay ad”, but I watched it many times and never came away with that interpretation in the least. The Chobani and Cottonelle ads are
way over the top.
When I saw
Joker a few months ago, I said to myself
“finally — a Hollywood feature film without an obviously gay sympathetic character!”. The only remotely politically correct aspect of this film was the brief interracial relationship between Joaquin Phoenix’s character and his girlfriend, and of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. This was more like a European movie than an American one — the ending was as deeply disturbing as the entire movie itself.
