Jim at Box Turtle Bulletin screen-capped this post from the Oreo cookie facebook page:
Do the people at Oreo not understand that their desire to support happy, mutually beneficial love will be met by the sneers and dysfunctional cries of sad wingnuts who, unfortunately, reside in all of these fifty states? Do they not understand that there are people in this country who are too scared of their own lives to worry about real issues, and instead are brainwashed to be afraid of things like “gay agendas” and “black presidents?” Do they not understand that there are a few thousand ladies who call themselves the “One Million Moms” [wouldn't be the first time a Republican fudged on the issue of size] who will likely call for a useless boycott of some cookies?!
Lastly, won’t Oreo think of the children?! (Not the children of gay couples, or the children of heterosexual couples who don’t happen to be really bizarre wingnuts, AKA the children of most hetero couples…no, just the very small minority of children who are being brought up as, um, really bizarre wingnuts, approximately half of whom will defect into normalcy sometime during adolescence or soon after…)
[Thanks, Oreo, for paying attention. Somebody actually brought some to our dinner party tonight. Not that I need the calories, but oh, what the hell, we have ice cream too, maybe I'll make a dessert-y snack.]
I would not be surprised if the whackjobs signing all these petitions continue to buy the products they’re supposed to be boycotting.
First of all, Fundies feverishly resist change, so they’re not likely going to go out looking for an alternative to Starbucks or the myriad of products under the General Mills umbrella they use every day.
Secondly, Fundies don’t like to be inconvenienced, evidenced by the fact that they ignore all bible verses that inconvenience them and focus only on the ones that affect others.
So, so predictable.
Just another reminder to the wingnuts at how badly they lost the culture war. Kudos to Nabisco.
Oops. I see Nabisco/Oreo is owned by Kraft. See link for a list of their brands. If they want to boycott Kraft, they’ll starve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kraft_brands
I’d hate to think how many calories that one cookie has.
Ooooh, that cookie looks soooo good! I hope they start making and selling them.
[...] predicted this morning that wingnuts would just lose their minds over the fact that Oreo posted a gay pride [...]
I think it’s time to make some of my oreo cookie bark!
In light of the very sad shooting of the teen lesbian couple in Texas, things like this from Oreo are indeed heartwarming.
We ARE winning, but, like the Civil Rights Movement many years ago, how many lives will it cost? In the name of religion, yet?
Thanks Oreo, thanks Nabisco and thanks TWO for getting the word out.
Jerry