PHOTO: Boycott Ford! Disgusting Volvo ad is "phallic"!!!

[Bluebear]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

DOCTOR Don Wildmon urges you to BOYCOTT FORD for their pushing the HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA, say amen! DOCTOR Don "Wildman" Wildmon invites you to see these sick, sick, sick, ads like the following and then pass them on to your family and friends so they will not buy Ford/Volvo/Jaguar, etc!!! Why, it's "taking things to a new level"!


DR. Don Wildmon

LOOK at this parking brake! LOOK AT IT!!!! It has a hard on! It's phallic, I tell you, it looks JUST LIKE A PENIS! It has an erection! LOOOOOOOK AT IT!!!!! OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
:rofl:



Boycott Ford copy: Taking things to a new level, Volvo's risque ad phallicly shows an emergency brake handle as if it is an erection, with the headline, "We're just as excited as you. Happy Mardis Gras from everyone at Volvo Car Australia." At the bottom is an obligatory rainbow stripe.

The ad was carried in the 2003 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardis Gras program book.

http://boycottford.com/

[Parche]

1. boycott

Some people are just a bunch of pricks.

[ewagner]

2. ....and sooooo.....

....exactly what was the good Doctor doing looking through the 2003 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardis Gras Program ? Hummm?

[Sydnie]

8. Great Question! ROFL n/t

[annabanana]

9. jes' huntin' for them eeeevil images....

So I can WARN everyone... yeah, that's it
That's the ticket........

[atommom]

20. Looking for ammunition, or just checking out the local scene?

The local scene from TWO YEARS AGO, I might add. What a wanker.

[bunkerbuster1]

50. And sadly, wanking is all he'll ever do

poor little closet case.

[Bluebear]

21. And BTW, why was "W" at "Splash Week"?

[mcg]

67. maybe he was bored with Jeff

[ComerPerro]

37. Question of the day!

[Warpy]

38. And why does the good doctor see erect phalluses wherever he goes?

That is the question I most want answered. It seems the poor thing is simply surrounded by hard and pulsating male members. He can't get away from them, not even in ads for the cars favored by the suburban yuppies who want to get the kids to soccer practice!

I'll bet a look at Guckert's client list would tell us that.

I'll also bet that's the reason he was silent about Guckert's presence in the White House, all those sleepovers.

[redqueen]

74. Well, in the case of this ad, it's pretty frickin obvious.

I mean... they even included the text, just in case anyone missed the meaning.

[fob]

78. Actually the phallic thing is the UNDERLYING message, the overt

message I got was that they were only showing a small part of the car and that "they are as excited as you" to see the whole thing. Building some hype, as it were. The phallic thing is only secondary if you're looking for it, or interpret it INTO the ad. And since the magazine was for a Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and the "rainbow stripe" was obligatory then what's the issue with it being there then?

Holy Shit Don, get a fucking life! While you're at it did you hear Laura bush* telling horse dick jokes in reference to her horse masturbating husband*? Please set up pickets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. Dick.

[redqueen]

79. Okay.

I disagree completely, but if that makes you feel better about it, fine.

[fob]

81. Disagree if you want but don't be a jerk. My point is valid and not

simply bullshit "to make me feel better about it".

The ad is so dark you can barely make it out, my reaction to it was as described, I had to go back and look again closely to see what that whacko's point was. There have been several cars introduced with a similar campaign. One I recall shows a car travelling around a track with a car cover on it and as it comes to a stop part of the cover peels back to reveal the front grill only. Perhaps they really intended to promote stripping and flashing your breasts or manhood?

Geez.

[redqueen]

82. Defensive much?

Damn, this place is becoming...

nevermind.

[fob]

84. No, only when attacked. Typical right-wing ploy* though, attack the

messenger. How about responding to any of the points made? No? OK, nevermind, got it.


*I'm claiming you are using a rw ploy not that you are a rw-er, just for clarification sake.

[redqueen]

85. My right wing ploy was... disagreeing with you?

Holy shite... this place is even battier than I thought.

[fob]

86. A p p a r e n t l y y o u h a v e p o o r r e a d i n g s k i l l s

s o I w i l l t y p e s l o w e r.

Seriously are you just being silly now? It's right there after the words "right-wing ploy*". You attacked the messenger (me) with "Defensive much?" and neglected to address any points made. Is it really that difficult to u n d e r s t a n d ?

You are right though, with your comments so far this place IS battier than you thought.

[redqueen]

90. This is bizarre.

You claimed the sexual imagery was somehow "secondary". I think that's absurd. Rather than argue what's IMO pretty much screamingly obvious, I chose to say believe what you want.

(EDITED to add - I see now that I worded that thought poorly. I apologize.)

Then you jump down my throat, calling me a jerk... and say I'm using right wing methods.

AND NOW you claim me just saying "Defensive much" is somehow ATTACKING YOU?!

:crazy:

"Defensive much" is among my stock responses to use with people who seem to be flying off the handle into ranting rages with little or no reason, when I don't think they're seriously interested in any kind of discussion.

[fob]

94. Apology not accepted.

You started out with a perfectly fine explanation and apology and thenm go right back to your same mode.

I said "don't be a jerk about it", as in the way you disagreed was jerky, not that YOU are a jerk. You on the other hand dismissed my comment outright because you already determined the ad was "frickin' obvious".

You did use the attack the messenger tactic when your explanation above was more appropriate.

The words alone "defensive much" aren't alone an attack but your whole demeanor was and it came off like a dismissive whiner (not that YOU are a dismissive whiner). Not to mention the bizarre and batty comments. Can you honestly re-read your posts and NOT see attitude shine through?

You finally realize you worded your thought poorly, but I am the crazy one?

If you're going to have a stock response you might want to move the qualifier UP from "seems to be flying off the handle" to someone who is "most certainly flying off the handle", IMO.

Did my post *really* sound like I was not interested in serious discussion?

:toast:

[redqueen]

97. Yes, it did, and this one did, too.

I edited in the apology, after another, less upset person pointed it out calmly.

Where did I "attack the messenger"?

This really does have to be the most bizarre exchange for me ever on this board, and I've been here for a good while.

Have a good weekend.

[fob]

100. Perhaps the rant at the end directed at don wildmon makes you

think I was just messing around? The first part with my analysis of the ad stands in contrast with yours and apparently wildmon's.

You attacked the messenger by your dissmissive comments without addressing my comments. It appeared to me that rather than discussing the issues I brought up you just blew it off and retreated to name calling. See?

I say what I see in the ad and you say essentially, "OK whatever dude I already told you it's so frickin obvious how can you possibly see it differently".

Apparently that was NOT your intent but you said you could see where it might come off like that but now you're asking again "where did I do that".

So it's pretty "bizarre" for me too since someone else already pointed out to you "where you attacked the messenger" and you already said "oh yeah I see it now" and here you are back to implying I'M BIZARRE?

BTW, I was/am not upset, I'm frustrated because I tried to explain the same things to you but you kept just coming with the batty/bizarre stuff and then all of a sudden you're straightened out, now you're back to "bizarre". I guess I just don't get your style what with default comments that the recipient is supposed to know what they mean? Is there a redqueen rosetta stone you could post for the rest of us?

OK, I'm done. I'm willing to start over with a serious discussion about our different interpretations.

Here's my basics on the ad:

The location of the ad (gay/lesbian mardi grass magazine) is irrelevant

When I looked at the ad (even though the setup was the ad was obviously sexual) I didn't get that impression. In fact the ad was so dark all I literally saw at first was the white volvo logo on the right. I read the words (which you say cements the sexual aspect) and it reminded me of several other ads that used similar, reveal a little and build hype type gimmicks.

It was a third look after reading other posts that I got what "pious don" was bitching about. It seemed to ME that he saw that because he was LOOKING for it. I've gotten PM's from others that it took them more than a single look to get what was apparently so "frickin obvious", so I don't think it is or was meant to be that obvious.

Now I agree that's one of the possible interpretations one can get from the ad we just disagree with where in the marketing that interpretation lies, you feel it's front and center and I see it as background.

It just seems to me that Volvo wouldn't think a good idea to advertise their vehicles is to make a dick joke the main focus of an ad, in a gay/lesbian magazine or otherwise. Having a dick joke as a second or subliminal interpretation of an ad, yeah I can see that.

So, yes my initial comment was/is serious, I didn't mean to confuse that with the crazy don comment.

Respond if you want or not that's cool. No harm no foul, just next time give me a quick "are you serious?" before the "defensive much" gets whipped out(pun intended).

:toast:

[Terran]

88. You didn't just disagree with fob

You spoke to him/her as if he/she were a two year old. That does tend to set some people off.

[redqueen]

89. Where?

:shrug:

[Terran]

92. #79

#82 was pretty rude too, considering you're the one who put him on the defensive.

[redqueen]

93. Ah I see it now.

Point taken.

[dddem]

56. Exactly what I was thinking.

These folks seem to be obsessed with other people's sex lives.

[XemaSab]

71. My thoughts exactly

n/t

[Jamastiene]

108. Probably had to read every disgusting

sinful page with sumbliminal penis ads AT LEAST TWICE to catch 'em on that one. I don't get these people.

[amazona]

3. go ford! you can't buy publicity like this!

Like Focus on the Family types buy Jaguars anyway. Ha. I'm sure their boycott will be oh-so-effective. It's enough to give a disgruntled shareholder hope that Ford is doing something right.

And go to God who puts that wicked "obligatory" stripe in the sky ever so often just to let you know where He stands on the subject.

[The Doctor.]

4. The poor man....

he'll never be able to use an emergency brake again without thinking of grabbing a stiffy... oh the humanity!

[MrScorpio]

5. If I weren't straight, I'd be urged to do sordid things with that handle

Naughty Ford... Naughty, naughty Ford!

[calico1]

6. Dr. Wildmon looks like a perv to me!

I see cars with their parking breaks engaged all the time in the employee parking lot. And a lot of them (including mine) have a parking break AND a stick shift. That must be really sick, eh?

I guess if you try really hard you can see perversion anywhere. Makes you kind of wonder what people like this think about all the time.

[XemaSab]

72. If you look closely

the photo shows a stick shift too.

And the parking brake is pointed at the stick.

Just sayin'.

[SnohoDem]

95. It's also pointing toward the slits in the steering wheel.

I guess it's a bi parking brake.

[Shoeempress]

7. All good Christians have foot parking brakes, everyone knows that.

[Inland]

34. Wear thick soled shoes, close your eyes and press until finished. nt

[Jamastiene]

109. ROTFLMAO

Amen to that one.
:rofl:

[knowbody0]

10. i LOVE my volvo

[SmokingJacket]

16. I love mine too.

I'd have sex with it if I could.

[Bluebear]

24. You are both latte-drinking Volvo-driving liberals

:yourock:

[VOX]

49. *sip, sip, smack, ahhh!* And into my XC-70's cup holder goes my latte!

And b'fore I got "my baby" in 2003, I drove a Volvo 240DL for 17 years!

Take that, ya whippersnapper! :bounce: :hi:

[trumad]

25. C70 convertable baby..

It rides like hot butter on toast.

[sellitman]

59. I love my Volvo toooooooo!

It has all wheel drive and isn't


HARD ON

gas.....:rofl:

[gratuitous]

11. Hmm, a Swedish car company advertising in Australia

What does Mr. Wildmon propose we do? Pull out (you should pardon the expression) of Iraq and declare war on Sweden and Australia?

[CatholicEdHead]

64. That's what I thought

if its not in the US media, WHO CARES.

[Spike from MN]

80. Yeah well, Sweden would be a pushover since according to *

they don't have an army anyway. What a moran.

[slor]

12. OH DEAR GOD!!!!

Volvo! Please, think of the children!

[Clark2008]

13. The local conservative talk show host is going to do a bit tomorrow

about why the fundies should NOT boycott Ford. He didn't give his reasons - it was just a teaser.

However, I drive a Ford and I'm pretty excited. :bounce:

[SmokingJacket]

14. That's hilarious!

What a great ad -- I'm glad it's not in my sons' copy of National Geographic Kids, but heck, in Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras program? Why not.

Actually, since my kids wouldn't get it, maybe it wouldn't matter.

[eissa]

15. He's right!

How stupid could I have been?! I honestly thought that was a parking brake! But it's not! It's a penis! A big one too!

I'm calling my husband to come home from work early tonight :evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

19. hehehehehehe

I'm so glad I could help defend your marriage!

[dhinojosa]

35. Do you want him to buy you a volvo?

<snicker> just kidding.

[eissa]

39. LOL

Something like that ;-)

[berni_mccoy]

17. The Dr. is Stiff

He needs to loosen up a bit...

:-D

[BigBearJohn]

18. If something is longer than it's wide, the pugs cry phallic!

Reminds me of the Pug visiting a Psychiatrist
complaining that everyone thinks he's a sex maniac.

The doctor draws two parallel lines and asks the guy what he sees.
The Pug says, "a man and a woman making love in bed."

The doctor draws two vertical lines and asks the guy what he sees.
The Pug says, "easy doc. They're doing it standing up."

The doctor sadly informs the Pug, "Well, sir, I'm afraid the
rumors are true. You do have a problem with sex."

To which the pug explodes: "ME? *I* have a problem with sex?
Hell! It's YOU who is drawing the dirty pictures!!!!!"

[Clark2008]

23. Gee - they must have been glad to see the WTC towers fall down. n/t

[havocmom]

58. deranged winger in a college class with my daughter always complained

about things shaped like phallic symbols and how horrible it was. She was ranting about fire hydrants, vitamin capsules, emergency breaks on cars... My daughter finally blew a gasket when the phalli-phobic dolt complained: "Even tampons are shaped like a phallus!"

Wayward daughter asked her if she would prefer something shaped like a Rubik's Cube up her snatch. I believe she got a good grade in that Comparative Religions course.

[Jamastiene]

110. A Rubik's Cube there?

A Rubik's Cube there?

:rofl:

That's a good one. I'm glad someone asked her that. Missles are phallic too. So are people at least somewhat. I hope this guy decides to boycott me. :P

[donheld]

22. Damn, I wish i needed a new car

Volvo's are one of my favorites.

[KansDem]

26. That's a photo of the new Ford Viagra...

The doc should lighten up a bit...

[BigBearJohn]

42. laughing my arse off -- how FUNNY -- ford VIAGRA

considered it stolen

[TalkingDog]

27. I'm sorry, I thought it was pronounced "VULVA"

And I actually knew someone who pronounced it that way....with a straight (pardon the pun) face.

[Catherine Vincent]

28. ahh, I like that!

I may go out and buy me a volvo now. LOL!

[madeline_con]

29. Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras...

program, eh? What was THIS yahoo doing reading trash like that??


:spank:

[Kipling]

30. That's humour.

Not bloody gay porn. It's quite funny too. Still buying SAAB here, mind.

[sakabatou]

31. Hey Doc, it's called adult humor

Live with it.

[Inland]

32. Say, I didn't know the Swedes circumsized their brakes.

I thought that was an American Car thing.

[Ikonoklast]

33. Can someone please explain to me

why all these God-boys have a hang-up about sex and who might be having it? I always thought that it was His greatest gift to mankind. What a perv!

[madeline_con]

70. Dontcha know...

only sex between two heterosexual, married, ugly people in the dark for the purpose of procreating is allowed? All else is punishable by death in the fiery PIT! :grr:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. ROFLMAO

:rofl:

One can only wonder what he sees when the airbags deploy...

[Demit]

40. That's sophisticated & subtle sexual humor & we NEVER got it here

in the puritanical US of A--even back before the rabid fundies. In one of my old advertising jobs we used to get the reels of the best European commercials and just marvel at the level of sophistication. That's a gorgeous photo, btw.

[Generic Other]

41. The owner's manual never told me about that option!

Naughty naughty volvo. Soap your windows with the squirty thing.

[NervousRex]

43. I am confused...

Which picture has the phallic image in question?...I see an allusion to a dick in both photos....

[Bluebear]

46. The doctor DOES look a little phallic, now that you mention it. nt

[globalvillage]

44. Christian activist group goes after Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Co., in a magazine advertisement, offers to donate $1,000 to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for each Jaguar sold.
By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 4:36 p.m. ET June 1, 2005A week after it declared victory over Walt Disney Co., a leading Christian activist group has fired another missile in its long war against companies it thinks are destroying traditional American values.

The target this time is Ford Motor Co., which Christians should boycott as “the company which has done the most to affirm and promote the homosexual lifestyle,” the American Family Association says on a Web site it put up Monday, boycottford.com.

The AFA, the nonprofit group run by the Rev. Donald Wildmon, criticized Ford for donating money to gay-rights organizations — Ford offers to give up to $1,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination for every Jaguar and Land Rover it sells. The group also complained that Ford sponsored gay pride celebrations, advertised in gay-oriented publications and was “redefining the definition of the family to include homosexual marriage,” Randy Sharp, the organization’s director of special projects, said Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047423/

[Touchdown]

45. Oh' please! Volvo is just being Volvo.

After all, they're only being consistent with their corporate image...

[bloom]

47. He better boycott about everything that advertises (& all the media)

That may be more blatant than most - But sex sells.

"We're just as excited as you." :)

[redqueen]

75. No shit! Everything advertised with sex... let's see...

Yep... that would be pretty much everything.

That'd be a good research project -- how many ads DON'T use sex?

[Jamastiene]

111. Wonder why he's not boycotting the war?

Missles are phallic shaped too.

[wicket]

48. That's it, I'm buying a Ford!

:kick:

[VOX]

51. I just developed a galloping case of emergency-brake envy!

But, with apologies to Freud, "Sometimes a Volvo is just a Volvo."

:bounce:

[Democracy White]

52. Great...

I never thought that a photo of a car would make me ummm... horny. Never crossed my mind. Until now. Oh God! This is soooo wrong, what am I going to do now? Maybe I should commit myself at Pine Rest and get over this... fetish! And I'm a lesbian!

Oh God of Heaven above! Forgive me for I know not what I do or what I see. I have peered upon this image and thus soiled my eyes. Please do not smite me in your Eternal Anger. I realize now that you decreed all forms of sexuality as wrong and sinful. I will dedicate myself from now on by disregarding my inborn desires and purchase a chastity belt. Oh God, my God!

I was being sarcastic if anyone didn't notice. Very bad attempt at that too.

Dee

[SeveneightyWhoa]

53. Awesome ad!

I'm not gay but that's a great ad..

[Bluebear]

54. See, you are being reeled in by the homosexual agenda

You insist now that you are not gay, but now that you have seen that pornographic car ad, you're thinking about it. Aren't you? Aren't you?
:eyes:

[SeveneightyWhoa]

55. Yes!

Goshdarn, you're right!

I've been taken in.

I'm going to go watch the Christian Broadcasting Network now -- and then at night, I'll catch all the Peter Popoff infomercials! What I need to do is pour some of his "Miracle Spring Water" onto my genitals, making God take the homosexuality away.

[nonconformist]

57. Yet another example of how obsessed with sex these fundies are

Just OBSESSED. Thinking about it 24/7 obsessed. Gay and lesbian issues? Obsessed. Porn? Obsessed. If it has anything at all to do with anything sexual - or even if it doesn't but can be spun that way - there are fundies somewhere obsessing over it.

Anyone else think doth protest too much?

[sellitman]

60. Volvo: The Official Car Of Jeff Gannon!

:rofl: :rofl:

[expatriate]

61. Hang on a minute!

This guy is from the AMERICAN Family Association and he's all hot and whorish about this ad in the AUSTRALIAN Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras guide from a couple of years back?

Why isn't he fighting the good fight back home, and worrying about phallic imagery there?

Checking his silly website, I see he's all worried about ads from all kinds of countries.

Dr. Wildmon needs to tend to his knitting and stop obsessing about anything that looks remotely like a weiner.

Hey, Doc - how about that Oscar Meyer Weiner truck that drives around at the American Mardi Gras parades? Evil! Bad! And they throw little teeny Oscar Meyer Weiner whistles that people actually PUT IN THEIR MOUTHS to blow! AAAAAAGH! NOOOOOOOO! Symbolism!

I'd better go do something else before I have a stroke.

[Generic Other]

62. Teeny? Hardly!

[Bluebear]

63. That's IT! No more Oscar Meyer for my wholesome household!

:rofl:

[mcg]

68. and it's got a yellow band on it

[Bluebear]

65. For the morning shift :)

[lectrobyte]

66. Too funny. I drive a Volvo, and it usually seems happier with

the parking brake off, if cars can be happy.

[mcg]

69. Wildmon's head looks phallic.

[XemaSab]

73. I'm actually really impressed with these ads

They're chasing the "gay dollar."

[redqueen]

76. Childless couples are making up a bigger and bigger share

of those able to afford new, upscale cars.

[XemaSab]

77. the elusive "gay dollar"

two disposable incomes need fancy toys.

[Vinca]

83. The ad is cute for Pete's sake.

Don't these people have ANY sense of humor?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

87. I had a college professor who I believe used to work at either

Liberty University (Jerry Fallwell's) or Regent University (Pat Robertson's) who toldo ur communications class that the opening of of a certain Circuit City store in Norfolk, VA (I went to ODU) looked like a vagina. This was back in the late 1980s/early 1990s when I took her class. WTF?

[Vinca]

107. These people have way too much time on their hands! nt

[Ken Burch]

91. Not only that, the parking brake's been CIRCUMCISED!

Dear Lord, an excited Jewish parking brake! Protect our Christian daughters from driver's training classes in this, dear Lord!

[BigBearJohn]

96. Yes, they should have stretched a condom over it.

[Tsiyu]

98. What will we tell the children?

Seriously , if this dude is looking at two-year-old programs from a gay event, dude needs to admit he is a homosexual and get right with Gawd.

I'd rather see a phallic-looking parking break any day as compared to the phallic-looking bombs his party loves to drop on humans...

[gollygee]

99. Sometimes a parking break is just a parking break

These folks are nuts

[BigBearJohn]

101. and they have NO sense of humor!!! (unless it's at your expense)

[rumpel]

102. Some people just need help!

[Stephanie]

103. I'm sorry, it is kind of a hot parking brake.

Okay, I'm lonely.

[LiberalPersona]

104. Not really funny, but anger inducing

Hey dumbass boycotters, it's a company!
They use targeted advertising to attract people. What do you expect them to do, alienate potential customers because of your asshole narrow world views and have fewer customers?

Do you think that gay money is infected, that it will transmit AIDS and turn your children gay with the hidden messages found by folding the bills?

[NiteOwll]

105. How funny!

My last four cars (and trucks) have been Fords, now after seeing this, you can bet my next one will be as well! ;-)

[Warren DeMontague]

106. When You're A Hammer, Baby...

Everything Looks Like A Nail.

[NMMNG]

112. Darn you!

Darn you for posting that picture!

Now I've gone and turned straight:grr:

How am I going to explain this to all of my friends?