It's always surprising to me the shear number of things people decide to get offended by. I think of myself as a fairly smart person. Even if I don't agree with people on things, I can usually understand why they feel that way (on pretty much everything except backing Trump - in that case, you have a serious screw loose. There's no excuse for you.) Anyway, I may not agree with you, but I can see the logic.
Until today that is. I watched these moments that have caused such anger, and never once thought "that's going to make XYZ people mad." I literally have no idea how they jumped from Point A to Point B, and why they chose to spend so much of their life looking for things to rally about. Life's too short, peeps!
First up, was the commercial during the Super Bowl with Kevin Hart as a protective dad who followed his teen daughter around on her date. Cute, right? I admit I laughed, then forgot about it. Until I went on Twitter, and saw the feminist tyrade about Kevin Hart and whatever car company the commercial was for, suppressing the teen's rights as a woman to make decisions for herself. Seriously? She's a teen girl. When did it become wrong for a father to be over-protective of his teenaged daughter?
Then it was the fairly amusing ad for Doritos that was sort of icky and sort of funny, at the same time. It all revolves around a father eating Doritos at an Ultrasound. The "baby" on the monitor really wants a Dorito. Hard to explain so just YouTube it. I laughed. Today, the pro-choice advocates are stating that the commercial makes the assumption that a fetus is a baby. Their argument that the fetus doesn't become a baby until after birth, is irrelevant. It's a commercial about Doritos for a bunch of football loving people that are just watching it because they're waiting to get back to the game. Must we get philosophical with everything?!
My favorite was the argument over which QB did worse in their post-game interview. Carolina fans think Manning's "I'm going to go drink a lot of Budweiser" statement was ridiculous and feel he should have some sort of penalty since no active football player in the NFL is allowed to endorse an alcohol brand. Yes it was a slightly strange thing to say, but he'd just won the Super Bowl so give him a break. Then the Bronco's fans are up in arms over Newton's gloomy, post-game press conference that he walked out of. Yep, he needs to deal with losing much better if he's going to continue in the game, but he's a 23 year old dude, that just got sacked 6 times in a game they were favored to win. Maybe cut him a little slack?
And don't even get me started on the half-time show that simultaneously has "undertones" of the Black Lives Matter movement, White Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, and pushing a "gay agenda." I'm fairly certain at least 2 of these contradict each other, how on earth could the show have included them all?
These are these are the stories that were going around the internet today. Not the score, or whether or not the winners are going to Disney Land. Controversy and opposing views. Maybe, just maybe if we focused on what's really at hand - in this case, a big loud, fun football matchup - we'd be a little more open to what everyone else has to say and not so worried about how it affects us.
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