Disturbing

[trinityvixen]

I went home for lunch and threw on a round of Dynasty Warriors 3 (TAKE THAT, YOU ELEPHANT RIDING MOFOS!), but before I got the remote to switch to the different video input, I caught a commercial for Burger King (yeah, I know, where have they been?). There were men breaking out into Broadway-esque song about their love of meat and how tired they were of soy and salad and how being a man required they eat some or another sandwich that BK is now offering.

Are they joking? Is it any wonder their share of the grease business is practically a thinner slice of fast food pie than Arby's?

Plus, as a fucking carnivore, I object to the eating of meat being seen as "manly" or the frou-frou vegetarian coddlying being lumped on my gender. I am as annoyed as anyone that meat is under attack (mmm, delicious meat; wasn't I talking about bacon earlier? I think I was). I'd get more offended by the meat-is-manly thing for sexism if I weren't just perplexed as to how BK thinks this ad campaign helps their crap food seem any better.

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Doesn't make ME want a BK sandwich.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Me neither. I think the campaign would have been more successful if they hadn't MANFULLY shoved the thing out at the camera. Really lets you see how tiny and pathetic the patties are.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Meat IS manly. Whence do you think the term, "man meat"? Have you ever seen me snort, "MMMMBEEEEFF!!!" like a cannibalistic steer? No woman could do that, or she'd have to trade in her boobies for a weewee. Meat is, like, gouging flesh and setting things on fire. It's only a half-step removed from the other classic male pursuits: rape and pillage! And don't forget what happened to Kyle when he stopped eating meat!
Still don't believe me? Ask viridian. She'll tell you.

(Of course, BK barely qualifies as meat, so the ad still doesn't make sense...)

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

oh dear, i don't believe i am going to post this, but there is a term i have used for females that involve the term meat and thats refering to a ladies "meat curtains". I dont think there is a single non sensical term for a part of the anatomy that disgusts me more.

but i agree, dead animals over a raging fire screams manly.

Also just a thought, ever watch the McDonalds comercials for their salads and fruit where its the baby shower and they all show up at McDonalds after? Watch carefully. Everything on the tray AND table are BigMacs and fries. Way to advertise girls eat salads...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::vomits:: Big Macs. BARF.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I can rape, too! I just...don't wanna.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Technically, I'd say grilling meat is manly, while eating meat is more of a gender-ambiguous thing. I'm curious to know if anyone knows of a couple where during an outdoor barbecue, the girlfriend/wife does the grilling? As far as I've seen, when a couple hosts a barbecue, the guy is always doing the actual grilling (while frequently, the woman does all the other preparatory work.)

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

So.... you're a manly woman! Be proud!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure I am. Just because I enjoy the taste of flesh? Bah and fie!

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

BK comercials scare me.
the king creeps me out, the whopper family is wrong, and the superbowl commercial last year was just plain wrong.

Yeah Arbys...at least they have real food.

and right on sista! bunny food has a time and place, but I hate that its seen as girly!

Hello, atkins is almost all meat, i dont know anybody who called that "manly"

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Diets aren't manly in general. They're plain wussy, be it male or female on one.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

but some people need diets....not that they are wussy :(

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You don't need a diet! Healthy eating and fun are more important than looking like a Southern Californian. You're not unhealthily shaped or weighted, dude!

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

:(
went to doctor on friday
he told me i was overweight
had to get thyroid checked, and they are not happy with my weight :(

so i am on diet per doctor now :(

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Okay, if the doctor insisted, fine. But I don't believe it! Because if you need a diet, I needed one fifteen years ago.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

yeah but i am gaing weight at a super fast rate, have put on 20 lbs between sept and now :(

thus dr wanted to have my thyroid checked since they might have done something to it when i had my tonsils out :(

yeah
i am much bigger then when you last saw me, it all rather depressing really.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If there was a thyroid problem, I could understand that. My friend has put on a lot of weight in a short period of time without it being because of habits, so that's what her doctors are looking into.

::hugs:: more of you to love, that's all, dude

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

*grins*
your the best
thank you

had to buy myself my first pair of size 17 pants the other day
god bless old navy who still thinks i am a size 14 :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hey, Ann Taylor thought I was a size-six top for a button-down shirt. That's gonna stay with me till I die, bloated and being devoured by my army of cats.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

GOD BLESS ANN TAYLOR

the dress i wore to your bro's graduation was ann taylor, size 6

i like her sizes but old navy is cheaper :(
well clearned room here, so should start doing my pilates and yoga more
maybe that will help :(

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Should do. I need to go back to stretching out more and try to get some swimming in.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

I need to figure out something...my doctor wanted me to "go down" to eating 1200 calories a day, i pointed out thats more then what i eat...then he said excercise more, i pointed out i walk everywhere and do pilates and yoga, yeah he has no idea....apparently i am missing something :(

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, that sounds like a hormonal problem, if lifestyle changes aren't effecting it. Is there a birth control you could switch to or stop taking? That might affect it, too.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

ironically i am allergic to bc pills LOL....but based on medical history most people think its thyroid....waiting for doctor to call with test results...apparently your tyroid is near your tonsils, this all started after tonsils went away....hmmmmmmmmm

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I had medium rare venison for dinner last night. Half raw deer. Does that make me manly?

(Of course, this was at a French restaurant, and followed by a tangerine souffle. So I guess not.)

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Only in France. [ducks from possible French readers]

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

France nothing. Venison is real american food damn it! The french most likely would kill the nice flavor that is venison with one of there overpowered sauces. All venison needs is some salt, some garlic powder, some onion powder, and a healthy rubbing of sage ^_^ Damn it, now I'm hungry -_-'


Mmmmmmmmmmm...... bambi's mom ^_^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

There should be some sort of table for this. If you check the row for the kind of meat and the level of cookedness, then crossed it with column for the place that served it to you, you could measure your manliness in milli-viagras.

So, for instance, if you had marinaded quail in a French restaurant, you'd be at negative milli-viagras. If, on the other hand, you were eating a still-warm carcass of a zebra that you'd brought down with your own claws and teeth, you'd be so far into the testosterone, you'd be off the viagra scale.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm..... so how then would you rate say sushi eaters? Or how about those of us who go out and order the real raw meat dishes (ie steak tartar, yook hwe, etc.)?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sushi is, alas, too "girly" because of its metrosexual, cosmopolitan (aka liberal effete) reputation. Plus, fish is a white meat, primarily, and white meat might as well be a chicken salad with lite dressing, you wussy.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

and the raw red meat dishes?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Fine. Like I said, if it could quiver and die and be chased down by a starving man, it's all good.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Actually, I believe my second choice would have been the quail with raspberry sauce if I hadn't gotten the venison.

And while it was half-raw deer, it was half-raw deer with a delightful huckleberry sauce.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you use words like "delightful" and the real drop on the viagra scale happens. Watch out!

Does sound delisch, though...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It was thoroughly amazing. Asparagus with truffle oil and parmesan, venison with huckleberry sauce on mashed potatoes and baby spinach, tangerine souffle. All with a nice Gewurtztraminer. (Which totally doesn't go, but who cares. I like it.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I am all for the wine you like vs the wine that "goes."

Where'd you pick up this lot?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Capsouto and Freres, in Tribeca. Wonderful (but pricey) French restaurant on Washington and Watts that is surprisingly hard to find.