The new Twix Halloween ad featuring a gender nonconforming child in a positive light has the maga...

[demmiblue]

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[CrispyQ]

1. Love it!

I love Twix, too, but only the Lefties.

[marble falls]

2. Good stuff.

[sanatanadharma]

3. LOL, loud enough for my my wife's online student to hear

The online student is on the other side of the world.
My wife in the house has a headset.
I am outside.
That was fun.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

4. Ok, I'll buy fresh candy

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181578047

Twix it is

[MineralMan]

5. Good ad!

[Deuxcents]

6. Good one 🎃

[FreepFryer]

7. "Yeah! ...Probably." (Nt)

[Blue Owl]

8. Let 'em stew in their own soiled undies

[Ziggysmom]

9. Loved it!

[niyad]

10. Goodness. Now .I have to go buy Twix. Great ad.

[calimary]

11. I'm SO DAMN SICK of those Troglodytes.

It’s reality. GET USED TO IT!

[Initech]

30. Same! It must be exhausting to be a school board member these days.

[Moebym]

12. It doesn't make me want to run out to buy Twix bars -

can't afford to make my dental health worse than it already is - but I'm surprised at myself for actually liking this ad, given how I dislike most ads nowadays for being terribly overproduced and un-funny.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. Love this

Happy Halloween everyone.

[haele]

14. We tried to look it upon on YouTube so the girls could see it on the big TV.

The amount of shocked, upset YouTube posters seemed to outnumber supportive YouTube posters two to one. Ended up having to cast it because I wasn't even sure the positive looking posts wouldn't editorialize inappropriately.

Seriously people. Boys and girls have always played dress-up and explored gender roles up through adolescence, and bullies have always sucked. Who wouldn't want a fairy Goth-Mother to be supportive and gently re-direct bullies for one?

Haele

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. Trolls are an epidemic on YouTube

[haele]

16. Trolls are an epidemic everywhere.

Bunch of scared supposed grownups who failed both Kindergarten and Sunday School (as most self-identfy as Christian).

Easy -and lazy- to snark or destroy. Much harder to build or improve.

Haele

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. This is true

I suspect troll farms fuel a lot of this nonsense too.

[vercetti2021]

17. What's wrong with it?

Oh nothing to normal people like us. The right loves throwing big bitch fits over everything nowadays. Snowflakes gonna snowflake

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. Nothing

I thought it was clever and funny.

[vercetti2021]

20. Exactly

But you know wingers. Gotta cry and bitch about the evil "wokeness" I'd rather be woke than asleep. As a transgender person myself. I feel what that boy felt. Wearing a dress made me feel better as a kid as well. I kinda wish I had a witch for a nanny too. That would be awesome

[KentuckyWoman]

21. I can't even figure out where "boys don't wear dresses" came from.

I defy any Christian to show me a picture of Jesus wearing pants.

Besides which, why aren't they getting all hot under the armpits if they see women in pants?

Those idiots make no sense.

[panader0]

22. Jesus wore sandal cut Levis. It's somewhere in the Bible.

May have been bell bottoms now that I think of it......

[dsc]

29. Some of them do

but women wearing pants has become normalized in the larger culture.

[lindysalsagal]

31. They are called kilts, and the "proud boys" were wearing them.

Soldiers before the 18th century wore them. All religious leaders wear long, flowing cloaks. Some modern super heroes wear long tunics. This fear is a waste of energy and pointless. Let the fools choke on their own insecurities.

[Equomba]

23. An ad promoting the sale of a product which is linked to

obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, problems which put children and young adults at risk for heart disease. One 2 ounce bar has 286 calories, 11 grams of saturated fat, and 28 grams of sugar.

Beyond that, Mars is the 3rd largest privately held company in the U.S. They have been criticized for buying cocoa beans from West African farmers who reportedly use unpaid or poorly paid child laborers as far back as 2009, when they said they would work on only purchasing cocoa from suppliers who meet labor and environmental. In 2019, WAPO reported that they are nowhere close to doing so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/mars-chocolate-deforestation-climate-change-west-africa/

The Ivory Coast has lost more than 80 percent of its forests in the last 50 years, mainly to cocoa production.


Trees felled for a cocoa plantation inside the Scio Forest Reserve in western Ivory Coast.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-real-price-of-a-chocolate-bar-west-africas-rainforests

[druidity33]

28. Thank you for this reminder...

and for the link. I mostly buy fair trade chocolate, but i admit to a predeliction for chocolate confections. I wish there were more fair trade chocolate companies that made candy bars! It's mostly just peanut butter cups...

[sarisataka]

24. If one were to take offense

Or find something disturbing about this, wouldn't it more apply to the child that is missing at the end?

[Bettie]

32. I did wonder why it was Ok to kill

the mean kid, but the rest was cool.

[Demovictory9]

37. people are criticizing the ad for it's implied violence.

[Deuce]

25. Nice!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

27. That just made me cry

Never in my life would I have thought I would cry at a twix commercial.

Gender non conforming goth/punk here.

[jmowreader]

33. I don't think this would motivate me to buy Twix any more than I already do...

...but for some strange reason I feel the sudden need for knee-high platform combat boots and black lipstick.

[Piasladic]

34. 1:50 am here

and not a shop open, but I definitely want a Twix. Probably for the best.

[Ligyron]

35. Hmm, now that i think of it, maybe I'd look good in a dress....

But I’m a die hard Kit-kat guy.

[Demovictory9]

36. the "let's go Brandon" crowd are angry about this Dorito ad also