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News & ArtsFriday, March 6, 2009
Homo Maybe If We Put Our Money in the Same Bank As the Mormons
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM
In Argentina bank loans bring people together.
Thanks to Slog tipper Zeitgeist.
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The frustrating thing is that they were a dictatorship not too long ago. Now Buenos Aires has gay marriage. South Africa too!
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That commercial had the production quality of a movie. Maybe next year we sell Super Bowl ad space to the Argentines?
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I'm flabbergasted at how much this packs into less than a minute and a half. Fuck, I'm living in the wrong country.
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Really you guys? I think it's stoopid. Walking the same streets, living in the same town, eating the same food, breathing the same air, speaking the same language... none of that caused this old dude to recognize their shared humanity? It took getting a loan from the same bank?
Whatever works... and it's just a silly commercial... but... come on.
Whatever works... and it's just a silly commercial... but... come on.
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The fact that they have a transgendered person in a commercial at all, especially in one that doesn't condemn or degrade them, says a lot. And yeah, the ad is stupid, but how it is presented isn't.
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I think the old man just has a long time fantasy about sleeping with someone who is transgender. And he figures that time is running out and he isn't getting any younger.
Maybe the he/she will blow him for a ballerina figurine.
Maybe the he/she will blow him for a ballerina figurine.
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Aww! I like this bank! I would totally open an account there if I was Argentinian.
Yeah, it's a ridiculous premise, but an awesome message. Commercials are always going to be kind of silly, so I say give them credit for being "the bank of change."
Yeah, it's a ridiculous premise, but an awesome message. Commercials are always going to be kind of silly, so I say give them credit for being "the bank of change."
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Come on, Dan. Name me one mainstream ad from the US (or Canada) with a transgendered person in it - as a _person_. Can you think of any? Cause I sure can't.
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God, I just love Argentina. I wish it didn't involve 16 hours of flying, but it's so worth it once you're there.
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@16: I have to agree with you, Argentina is a wonderful country. Beautiful lands and very warm people. Evidently fairly forward thinking too, even if it's just one bank and one "stoopid" commercial.
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I love that regardless of their age, or nationality I suppose, lady hairstylists always put some effort into their appearance.
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I loved it...
Dan, for those of us who live 24 / 7 as out homos in the regular working world, not at the uber gay friendly Stranger, this kind of thing is pretty awesome to us...
Dan, for those of us who live 24 / 7 as out homos in the regular working world, not at the uber gay friendly Stranger, this kind of thing is pretty awesome to us...
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Dan, from the other responses (responses made AFTER yours, I might add), you've taught your bitchy minions well.
If you're aa so wrapped up in why it took the FICTIONAL CHARACTER in the commercial so long to come around that you can't appreciate that a REAL BANK would make a commercial like this, then there's no hope for any of you. Go off and live the miserable, perceived-persecution-filled lives you so seem to desire. Me, I'm gonna go find an Argentinian guy and let him fuck my brains out as a way of saying thank you.
If you're aa so wrapped up in why it took the FICTIONAL CHARACTER in the commercial so long to come around that you can't appreciate that a REAL BANK would make a commercial like this, then there's no hope for any of you. Go off and live the miserable, perceived-persecution-filled lives you so seem to desire. Me, I'm gonna go find an Argentinian guy and let him fuck my brains out as a way of saying thank you.
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Okay, so, it's great that a bank made a commercial with a transgendered person, but, said commercial doesn't make very much sense. Why would getting a loan from the same bank make someone change their mind about transgendered folks? If only it were that simple....
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Dan, I think there's a subtext that this is the woman's father. I'm nearly certain of that because of the way she responds to the old lady in the car (I did that more than once with my mom after a confrontation with dad).
I think the idea is acceptance of change, not that the bank brought them together.
Regardless, it's fucking insane that we will NEVER see an ad like this in the US.
I think the idea is acceptance of change, not that the bank brought them together.
Regardless, it's fucking insane that we will NEVER see an ad like this in the US.
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Many Wall Street workers who have anything resembling wealth remaining after they lost their jobs have moved to Argentina and are living well since it's so comparatively cheap to live there.
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I know this is slightly beside the point since this discussion is really about the fact that this bank has a transgendered person in a commercial, but for those of you fawning over Argentina as a result, as somebody who has been living in Buenos Aires for the past 5 months please let me assure you that Argentina is not a land of milk and honey. While they do have more gay friendly policies and gays live pretty freely in the open, this place is economically, commercially and somewhat politically FUCKED. Plus, and I know this will turn most of you off the entire country right here, abortion is not legal here. So good for the bank for making this but don't give the whole country credit. The US is still less backwards in spite of this commercial.
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