Activist conservative group and rabid anti-LGBTQ bigots One Million Moms (which at best has about 170,000 members) is taking aim at Burger King for using what it calls the “d-word” in a commercial promoting its Impossible Whopper.
In the ad, a group of people taste-test the Impossible Whopper, then one man says, “Damn, that’s good.”
I know what you’re thinking:
Blasphemy of the highest order.
In response to this egregious use of the word “damn” in the commercial, One Million Moms offered this measured response:
“Burger King’s Impossible Whopper ad is irresponsible and tasteless. It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear.”
Here is what I think:
The mere existence of One Million Moms is extremely destructive and damaging to the word “mom” and all that it connotes.
How dare this bunch of hateful bigots malign mothers everywhere by taking on the name of an institution as treasured as motherhood.
I also think that ignorant bigots who attack the basic human rights of members of the LGBTQ community have a lot more to account for than Burger King’s use of a word as utterly benign as “damn.”
In an effort to let them know how I feel, I subscribed to the One Million Moms newsletter a dozen times this morning using the word “damn” in every field.
Even the state and zip code.
Happily, the idiots at One Million have created a moronic subscription form that accepts the same responses again and again as a new and separate subscription and allows you to use non-numerics in fields asking for zip codes.
Not surprising, they are hateful, bigoted, ignorant, and technologically sophomoric.
