Barilla Pasta President make Anti Gay Comment!

I am not gay and I will be joining the boycott . I been buying Barilla pasta and will have to find another brand to buy now.
 
Seems like much ado about nothing. He said only that they wouldn't use a gay family for advertising their product.
 
Reba said:
Seems like much ado about nothing. He said only that they wouldn't use a gay family for advertising their product.
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you're wrong , comments like this could stir up antigay feelings . I guess you forgot about Anita Bryant antigay movement and how that stirred up people. I know the guy has a right to say anything he want, but was it really necessary to made this statement .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
you're wrong , comments like this could stir up antigay feelings . I guess you forgot about Anita Bryant antigay movement and how that stirred up people. I know the guy has a right to say anything he want, but was it really necessary to made this statement .
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I don't know why he said that; did the interviewer ask him about advertising or gay issues? :dunno:

I don't know about any anti-gay feelings being stirred up. It didn't do that to me. AD is the only place where I've seen this mentioned.

Is there going to be a boycott for every product that doesn't use a gay family in its advertising?
 
Reba said:
I don't know why he said that; did the interviewer ask him about advertising or gay issues? :dunno:

I don't know about any anti-gay feelings being stirred up. It didn't do that to me. AD is the only place where I've seen this mentioned.

Is there going to be a boycott for every product that doesn't use a gay family in its advertising?
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coming right and said he would not use gay families in his ads does not sound like a very wise business move to me. this could be taken as an insult, that gay people money is not good enough for him. This could be why people are boycotting the pasta company. And it made me wonder what other 'anti' feeling the guy has.
 
we had idiot bigot who ran hotel big notice no active gays,it was on news maybe other brits remember story..gay couple sued him.
 
just add the gays did not win apparently with free speech he had right to say it even though biggoted, hope his bookings took a dive
 
whatdidyousay! said:
coming right and said he would not use gay families in his ads does not sound like a very wise business move to me. this could be taken as an insult, that gay people money is not good enough for him. This could be why people are boycotting the pasta company. And it made me wonder what other 'anti' feeling the guy has.
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Well, he has the right to his marketing decisions, and consumers have the right to their purchasing decisions.

I don't know if he has any "anti" feelings (whatever that means).
 
I haven't heard about this but if he will use a straight-appearing family in his ads, but not a GLBTQ family, what's the difference for him, between the two? why would he use one and not the other?

if-he would -not- use the GBLTQ family in his ads because it may show two males together or two females together, with or without children, and he has some kind of personal problem with it, then I consider that a hateful thing.
Same as if someone would refuse to show an African-American, Native etc. family for an ad but would readily put a white-appearing person in the same ad.

*edit -ok, because I was ignorant of this story I went and read about it in the link.
This is one of the things I read:

'Guido Barilla told an Italian radio station that he wouldn't consider using a gay family to advertise the company's pasta, saying that "the concept of the sacred family remains one of the basic values of the company." '<end quote>

that quote implies that GBLTQ folks don't-and shouldn't have families... the sacred-ness extends only to certain families. And that GBLTQ folks fall outside the realm of "family values"

to me, that is not "nothing". That is a biased and ignorant thing to say.
 
surely he must have known the reaction people would have to crass bigoted statement..one thing that noticable people who never heard of this brand have now..could it be clever or stupid marketing ploy
 
hmmm, yeah, bigoted.

I'd heard of it but haven't used it in a long time. I usually get organic/sprouted or einkhorn wheat, or sometimes rice-based pasta.
 
i never heard of it,i just buy pasta never look where it made what company...they may have it here not notice,i sure many americans just buy it and cook it they now know there brand barilla..
he did give this comment on italian radio is it poss he say something different on american radio..the strong catholics out there are very red neck
 
Of course, this boycott can backfire like the one against Chick-fil-A.
 
yeah, I bet more people will know "Barilla" simply because the news.
certainly possible about the Italian radio vs. American
 
I'm not familiar with that brand; I'm not sure if my stores carry it. :dunno:
 
I don't know, it's a very common brand here, in average stores.
 
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