AIBU to find HelloFresh's Pride post grim?

[OrientalBay]

Really Hello Fresh? Jumping on the Pride bandwagon and promoting your high fibre offering to gay men? Utterly grim.

Oh, I thought there was a community chairman who would let us all know.

If you make it woke enough, I’m sure they’ll jump straight on it.

I’d like to know who are these people paying for the overpriced grift that is Hello Fresh.

The thread isn't homophobic but Hello Fresh have been

Who's offended by gay sex?
I don't care who's having the sex.
I just want it kept out of my dinner.

Yet another reason to vote Reform😀

If they're my two choices I'll take the hello fresh thanks.

How is this homophobic

It's reducing pride month down to clearing out your bowels ready for all the anal sex you're gonna have, cos y'know, you're gay. Haha.

Being gay isn't just about having anal sex. And just because you're gay, it doesn't mean you appreciate people pointing out that you may (or may not) enjoy anal sex, as if that's all it's about.

It's making gay sex into a joke. Like some sort of stupid joke from the 90s people used to make up about Elton and David.

Plus, it's just misinformed. You don't need to eat a load of fibre just to have bum sex.

And they spelt fibre wrong.

But it's not a cheap option either. People won't simply support this company on a whim because they love the gay pride message. You have to think about whether you really need it or not.

Nobody would use HF if they didn't really need to, or if they were struggling financially.

It's such a risky strategy. Many of us who do (did) use it are working families. I will certainly welcome the money back in my pocket, even if it means a few more minutes each week thinking about meal planning.

Does anyone know how to check if ANY meat is halal btw? If I'd known about HF using only halal meat I would have ditched them years ago.

Snowflake? Oh please.

It's ok to have principles (and other brands are available).

It's not correct to say all publicity is good publicity as keeps being pushed by brand awareness campaigns. Marketing has to result in increased sales. Just because it's talked about as per this thread doesn't mean it is beneficial. It has to connect with someone who then buys the product. A classic would be where all boomers got offended by an advert and all the younger generation connect to the product because boomers were offended by the advert. That works. But these sort of ads don't do that. They are created within a bubble and sold to hierarchy within corporations who want to be seen as progressive and edgy. Hello Fresh should be focused on quality and value and know who their customers are. 9 perc decline in revenue last year, predicted another 6 to 9 percent this year. Shares at an all time low. They have significant challenges. Not sure this kind of publicity is going to help them.

I don't get where the offence to be taken is in their post, as a 50 year old heterosexual woman. It seems quite witty to me.

Its bigotry of low expectations. That gay men are nothing but anal sex obsessed simpletons with zero decorum and a teenage sense of humour.

I must say I didn't read it that way. Food might not be a priority because they are going out a lot was my take on it. If gay men are offended by it then that's fine but I don't think it's my job to be offended on their behalf, I'm sure they would speak up about it themselves!

Without going into graphic detail, I think it’s suggesting more that a high fibre diet isn’t the priority for a “top”

Disability will never be woke enough, sadly.

I disagree.

It's reducing Pride to a gay men's sex party, which may be problematic in Its own right, but it's not suggesting that's the lifestyle every gay man lives. Kind of like a hen night joke doesn't target all women, just the ones who do a certain type of hen night.

So this American advert is encouraging you to vote for a bunch of chancers, charlatans, and bigots. People who will fundamentally damage this county?

Reform wants to get rid of workers rights, health and safety in the workplace, holiday and maternity rights.

They are not looking out for you. All they want is to make their donors more money.

They are not to be trusted. They will fuck you and your community over

Yep. Who else has adverts like this?

Oh, well, yes, quite possible. Or I suppose that they're so busy shagging like rabbits that they don't have time to eat? Really, it's a little offensive to gay men, as well as very gross.

I wonder if, on Valentine's Day, they'll advertise nice fat sausage meals with a cucumber and carrot side salad to single women, to really 'fill them up'

It's like humour is entirely devoid in the right-wing community. Mired in bigotry, laughing not allowed.

The inference being that gay men are going to be so busy fucking for an entire month, so much that they forget to…eat??

Is that not a bit offensive to gay men??

As a centrist, I thought it was the lefties who usually get up in arms over humour (sometimes reasonably so), because it's some sort of 'ist' or 'phobic'?

If this 'joke' had come from a white man in a suit he would be in front of HR before the end of the day.