WHERE SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING MEETS LGBT EQUALITY

Nintendo Company, How Much?

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With the perfect suburban setting of a bike laying in a front yard, then a perfect home inside, with family pictures, a father's voice says, "Son, life isn't all about money. Nah -- family, health, happiness, those are the important things. I guess what I'm really trying to say is..."

The son is now shown in a hallway, looking into his parents' room. Dad is then revealed to be wearing a dress, wig, pearls and makeup. He continues, "How much will it cost to keep this from your mother?"

The kid looks up in complete amazement, as dad has obviously been caught cross-dressing.

In the ad's close, the kid walks into the bathroom and finds grandpa in his boxers while wearing black stockings, high heels and ear rings as he puts on lipstick. The kid, shocked again, says, "Grandpa??" It leaves open the question of what the kid's father and grandfather were doing together, since cross-dressing among heterosexuals is not usually a group thing.

User Comments
Conolley
The idea is that the kid can get enough hush money from his dad to buy a game. And maybe he can get two. There is granpa.

Abraham
I can see why this ad would be seen as negative. Cross-dressing is not accepted by all of society. This ad perpetuates that cross-dressing is wrong. It further says that a child can use the knowledge of this activity, being done in secret by another, for extortion purposes. The ad is just bad!

Andrea James
Kinda funny, but since shame is the main thing crossdressers seems to have to face, this left me feeling a bit ambivalent.

Jim
I usually agree with the ads you classify as negative, but I think this one is hilarious, sorry...

Max
Maybe I'm a bit dense on this one but I just didn't get it. I didn't see it as a gay-negative ad. These guys were crossdressers but what was the point--especially if the ad was targeted to kids?