They're going to turn tampons into rocketships.

In response to this post, I was disgusted not only by the commercial but also the fact that these are actors, not the real people who fear the storm.

I watched the commercial one day after class. I was eating lunch and when the commercial came on, I actually said out loud "Are you F***ing Sh***ing me?" Which is kind of weird since I was alone. Haha. In case you guys haven't seen it, here it is.

They're the same people who made this commercial:


I am going to address this in the same way the other post did. The woman who is a doctor who has to choose between her faith and her job. I would assume that a person becomes a doctor to help out those in need, so why pick and choose which lives you'll save? Hypothetically, say a woman comes into an emergency room because she was in a car crash and she is bleeding profusely, is a doctor allowed to not save her life because she is a lesbian? Is it ok for a doctor to just ignore the patient based on her religious beliefs? How would that doctor feel if she was in the same situation, a lesbian doctor not treating her because she's not a lesbian? It's downright unethical!

The second man, who said that his church group was punished for not supporting gay marriage, the blog had this response saying that "The New Jersey church group runs, and profits from, a beachside pavilion that it rents out to the general public for all manner of occasions –concerts, debates and even Civil War reenactments— but balks at permitting couples to hold civil union ceremonies there. The law does not challenge the church organization’s beliefs about homosexuality – it merely requires that a pavilion that had been open to all for years comply with laws protecting everyone from discrimination, including gays and lesbians."

So basically they are being punished for not abiding by the law, not for disapproving of gay marriage. Another way of exaggerating the truth.

The third case is of a woman who has to watch while her children are taught that gay marriage is ok. I don't believe that the teacher actually drills that gay marriage is ok to children, I think that they are basically teaching acceptance of others. Why is it wrong for children to learn acceptance but ok for children to learn about abstinence from a religious point of view? That's a double standard!

How is gay marriage going to change how a person lives? It's not like the law permits gay couples to move into a straight person's house and live there, it's just a really ridiculous comment to make.

A few days after that I watched this from the Colbert Report:


I ran into this while searching for the original video:



I think it's funny that they brought multi-cultural people into the commercial to see how accepting they were of other cultures, but in reality they're just trying to please everyone. They're really not accepting of anything, just their own beliefs.

I wish that the Colbert Commercial Aired right after the N.O.M commercial just so that people can see how ridiculous the N.O.M. Commercial is, and just to get a few laughs, haha.

Anyway, I think that if they wanted to make a stronger statement why not bring in some of those doctors that have to choose between their work and faith? How about members of that New Jersey church? A real mother who is suffering from her children learning about acceptance? Oh right, it would be ridiculous to bring the stories to life and not just have actors tell them instead.

Two thumbs down!