Commercial: That's So Gay - Wanda Sykes

[Veruca Salt]

GLSEN and Ad Council's new ad campaign from thinkb4youspeak.com. Featuring Wanda Sykes in a pizza parlor telling a group of teenage boys to Knock It Off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS0GVOQPs0

I saw this on TV this morning and was so very psyched to see it! Saying 'that's so gay' is way too commonplace and accepted.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I saw another version of the same PSA about two weeks ago.

Bull's eye. I thought I had dozed off in front of the box and wasn't sure it wasn't a dream.

What will be interesting is to see how many outlets refuse to run it because they don't want to rile the phobes.

[shireen]

2. excellent. i hate that expression. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

3. and did you read the comments below it on youtube...pitiful... n/t

"wow ppl are pussy these days
is a comment that i mean come now!!!
its a word GAY all this shit about it making commercails over the comment "thats so gay" is a bunch faggot assholes people who nead a reason to bitch over something pointless
wanda need to go back to the pussy she came from and stay there GOD I HATE WANDA SYKES....
her last comment that was so irrevent oh my the world os going under pussy control hahahaha this video was GAY!!!!! =

[Veruca Salt]

8. uhg! No I didn't see those...

Pitiful and disgusting if you ask me. I usually do paruse the comments on youtube but I have limited net access this week. Probably better I didn't see them otherwise I would have blown a fuse.

[yardwork]

13. Well, their own words tell you what kind of people they are...

[LostinVA]

4. Excellent -- I hate that expression, and it's used so casually

All of Haruka's sister's friends used to all say that -- even though NONE of them are homophobes -- they are all nice kids. Haruka finally got her sister to see it was offensive,and didn't "just" mean stupid or cheesy. And, like I said, these are all great kids -- many came to our wedding and/or gave us gifts.

[Veruca Salt]

9. I know exactly what you mean.

My brothers no longer say it either. It was something we grew up with because all the kids at school at the time used it and that's one of the reasons I was very happy to see the commercial!

[Creideiki]

5. Here's another version--maybe even more effective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKLbqLw_B8

[ThomCat]

6. That is a much, much more powerful version.

But it won't reach people who take pride in their views even when they are wrong. There are people who defend their views and actions even more strongly when you show that they're wrong. I'm not sure what would make them change their behavior. :(

However, for the people smart enough to get the point and open enough to consider it and learn from it, I think this could be effective. I just hope that's more than just a few people.

[tbyg52]

7. I don't know how it got started, but I want it to go away.

Hope these commercials help.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I saw a PSA done by Martina Navrotolova (I know I spelled that wrong)

About tolerance and coexisting. I was happily shocked to see it.

[Jamastiene]

11. That "that's so gay" fad cannot go out of style fast enough for me.

I still remember the first time I heard it. It was like a slap in the face. I can't wait until it's gone gone gone.

[Orsino]

12. I started hearing it from my students over twenty years ago.

Ugh.

[yardwork]

14. I asked my kids not to use it and to ask their friends not to use it.

My younger son has really embraced the cause. He's a football player, too, and it's not easy telling entire locker rooms of other football players not to use a phrase they've never thought was wrong. He does it, though. I'm so proud of him.