Dan Neil, one of my fav newspaper writers, has a great take on a flap about advertising and not advertising controversial ads on the Super Bowl mini-minutes. It’s about an ad for a gay-curious Web site, mancrunch:
The most subversive part of the Mancrunch.com ad is not its open acknowledgment of gay life, or even its portrayal of two guys kissing — and kissing for comic effect, much like the Snickers Super Bowl ad of two years ago that caused a flap. No, the ad’s real transgression is to imply that football-loving straight men, the sort who high-five after touchdowns, might under the right circumstances act out sexually with another man.



Duluth Trading
Published 10 February 2010 Amusements , Notes and comments Leave a CommentTags: advertising
This will not become the All-Dan-Neil-All-the-Time blog, but another column of his, “Duluth Trading’s Radical Form Of Marketing: Honesty,” pushed me over to the Web site of Duluth Trading. Both the column and the work-clothing company’s Web site merit a visit.