WHERE SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING MEETS LGBT EQUALITY

pokertime.net, Fight

Members:

A man with a guitar sings a song narrating the goings-on of a crowded bar. "It's survival of the fittest, when the bar is awfully crowded..." (to the tune of Kenny Roger's "The Gambler").

A man trying to elbow up to the crowded bar can't get an inch leverage because it's crowded and he's not very big. The lyrics of the cheesy song then suggest: "When your gut tells you it's poker time, reach out and make a pass."

The man plots to grab the butts of both of the men standing in his way, but then turns around like he never did it. The recipients of the gesture, standing next to each other and distracted by the female bartender, both turn angrily toward each other. One violently head butts and swings at the other man.

This clears the path for the actual offender to reach the bar and get his order in.

While few straight men/women wish to have their butts anonymously grabbed, the storyline the ad agency chose reinforces the idea that a pinch should seemingly reasonably turn into a homophobic punch.

User Comments
Anonymous
If it was a women who had her butt grabbed, she would be just as violent. It's not just homophobic violence. Butt-grabbing strangers are just rude.

Bobby
I think the violence is based on the violation of personal space. NOBODY likes their ass pinched by someone they don't like, male or female. And no gay in his right mind pinches the ass of a straight guy unless he has some kind of death wish. Since all the characters were in a straight bar, that conduct is not acceptable anyway.

Calder Falk
I'm sorry, if the two men turned around and thought it was a woman who pinched them, they would have smiled. Besides, even if it is not appropriate to pinch someones's ass, why should a gay man be said to have "a death wish" just for pinching a butt? Straight men do it all the time and have you ever seen a woman bash a guy's skull? Maybe if they did, men would start to get the message.