• peteyestee@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Sesame Street has been grooming kids. Look at all the celebrities they had on there… They groom kids for the pop American consumerism life. Even as a kid I thought it was fucked up that they basically used the show as marketing…

    Let’s face it… America raped the soul of the pride movement. It’s marketing, it’s pop. It is manipulation. You wanna rep the pride movement? Buy guns and risk you life (don’t do this… Not advocating that). Anything else is marketing. But let’s be real here American life is bullshit and that includes sesame Street.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      See I’m of the controversial opinion that if you think it’s going to make you money to do a razor ad that tells kids not to bully (Gillette) or wave a pride flag at your restaurant, I will gladly take that over an ad where an unrealistically chiseled God of a man is about to get fucked to death by his smoking hot wife in a red nightie for his choice of razor (Gillette) or a restaurant showing bomb blonde shells in tight tank tops with lame patriotic breast puns and bragging about being politically incorrect to get you in the door (do I really need to specify?)

      If we’re going to be bombarded by advertising, I’d rather the message at least be healthier and inclusive. Who cares if it’s a cynical attempt to make a quick buck? That shit has a profound impact on people psychologically.

      • peteyestee@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        It’s all the same evil imo. I think as genuine humans we should be above that entire ideology and style of marketing in general, regardless of the shit it promotes.

        • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          4 days ago

          Ok…but realistically, do you think marketing is going anywhere any time soon? If it’s here, I would rather it be healthier and inclusive.

          The debate isn’t “rainbow washing vs no ads.” It’s “if we’re going to have ads, what do we want them to say?”

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      4 days ago

      Companies will strip and homogenize anything just to make a quick buck. Pride needs to be every day.