On Big Bang Theory tonight I saw one of the best commercials of my lifetime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7skPnJOZYdA


It was a jaw dropping moment. It IS a teaching moment. And it IS stunning.

It should be shown on FAUX, but we know better, they would never allow it.




It gets better.


Thanks Google.

:)

K&R

Loved it. I hope it helped someone--kids are ruthless.

That was a great spot. Hopefully, it will help.

I kind of can't believe that a network ran that commercial.

Wow.

I have a lot of gay friends and commercials like this make the world better for them. Thanks for sharing!

Millions of head will explode if it's ever shown on FAUX. It would be good to see the clean up crew mopping up Hannity's head after seeing It Gets Better........

:hi:

Great commercial for a great show. Though this episode wasn't as good as the last few, it was still good. I'm not a fan of Howard's mom was my biggest problem with it.

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If I could give one bit of advice to ANY high schooler (not just gay teens, but ALL teens), it's that high school is a mere blip on the timeline of your life. I didn't have to deal with the slings and arrows associated with being gay, but I had a tough time in high school too. High school is not life. It's just something you have to get through in order to get to your life. In my experience, high school was probably the 4 worst years of my life, followed by college, which was probably the 4 BEST years of my life. Trust me, in 20 years, you won't even REMEMBER most of what happened during high school.

There's actually a pretty good segment of the movie "Bowling For Columbine" where Michael Moore talks to a bunch of celebrities who had bad high school experiences and asks them to give advice to kids that may be going through that kind of stress now. You should check out that entire movie, because it's great, but pay particular attention that segment.

I was "different" also, not gay, but very much out of the mainstream, and high school was absolute torture. I wish someone had said to me, "It gets better." And so it did, but when you're stuck in the middle of it, you don't have the perspective to imagine there will ever be a way out. So you need someone who has already made that journey to reach back and address you from their vantage point up ahead of you, so to speak.

By the same token I think of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" as addressing not just gay kids (and adults), but anyone who's out of step with the mainstream and refuses to compromise their identity.

Feels a little manipulative to sell a product by playing on people's emotions related to something that really has nothing to do with the product.

You didn't get it at all. The project came to life BECAUSE of Chrome, and if you have resentment for that, so sad....

I just feel like the sentiments are being used to sell product which feels manipulative.

But that is product advertising, in general, and that's what can be a little disconcerting.

Nothing to do with Google in particular.

We need more organizations with billions in resources pushing progressive values using sophisticated marketing.

I don't watch TV anymore except BBT on network. I cut the cable MONTHS ago. For that to run in prime time on one of the top top shows on TV was breathtaking.It didn't make me download Chrome, it made me more aware, as I hope it did millions.



http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

So, mission accomplished for the advertisement.

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There's a difference between telling people not to piss on a good thing. Clearly DB didn't see it as a Google ad, he was seeing something that benefits people.

Doesn't Coca Cola do the same thing with smiling polar bears and the like?

As you appear to have no idea what you are talking about.

:rofl: :hi:

It was the project organization that we all saw here... and talked about... except for you of course.

they took HUGE shit, HUGE. She hated high school. And the school turned it's back on bullying until the new laws were passed. She loves college. And she loves being an adult.


It got better for her. It will get better for everyone. It's closer that we think.

There are a few nasty and loud holdouts... but the good guys are winning this, no question.

And you've just defined the goal of advertising for the past 175 years or branding and marketing. :shrug:

Quite the insight...

nice commercial though

:eyes:

My family cheered! The ad is fantastic and the placement has been truly groundbreakIng. They could have tried the PSA method, but this is a full price buy, I assume. So, they put their money is where their mouth is, so to speak. Yay to all who made this happen! :)

:)

I'm not sure if that is allowed given the FB/Google dustup now.

It may be that we will need progressive corporate allies to get us out of this rightwing hell.

I knew it was running online, but so many good commercials like that never actually make it to the air. Good for Google for showing it in that spot. I hope it reaches lots of these kids.

K&R for Dan Savage

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You're a loyal company man.

There's nothing wrong with that. I was just making an observation.

Honestly, it's cool that you like your employer.

Millions of poor bastards are stuck working for someone they hate.

:toast:

Had a lot of jobs. Worked for the japanese for years. Those were some of the most stressful, tongue-biting years of my life. They hated us. We were only a means to an end. They would not even eat with us in the cafeteria, they had a separate table we could not sit at, and that was in the 90's. We were 'the money boys'. Make the sales, do as we tell you, oh and let your wife raise your kid, your life belongs to us.

After missing the first three years of my daughter's life on the road, I came home.


The nanny squad is paying too too much attention to my posts....



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I love that that showed in all markets, especially this one. Do you have any idea how difficult it is growing up in the bible belt different? I was just fat. These kids are gay and ridiculed and beaten. This is a fantastic message.
We need an organization that has chapters in each state to help these kids get the support and love they need to make it through their middle and high school years to make sure these kids don't ever think suicide is the answer.

It gets better


:evilgrin:

a big :applause: for "It Gets Better"



...thanks google but we still will hold your feet to the fire

It was excellent.

I've seen it here...

Every kid needs to see this - especially the "different" ones - of all sorts. we need to stop telling kids "high school are the best days of your life!", 'cuz it's only true for a small minority.

:hug:

http://www.fallwell.com/momOFgaySON.html

Sunday, April 30, 2000

By SHARON UNDERWOOD
For the Valley News



As the mother of a gay son, I've seen firsthand how cruel and misguided people can be.

Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I've taken enough from you good people.

I'm tired of your foolish rhetoric about the "homosexual agenda" and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay.

He never professed to be gay or had any association with anything gay, but he had the misfortune not to walk or have gestures like the other boys. He was called "fag" incessantly, starting when he was 6.

In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life with no dignity.

You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. God gave you brains so that you could think, and it's about time you started doing that.


No choice

At the core of all your misguided beliefs is the belief that this could never happen to you, that there is some kind of subculture out there that people have chosen to join. The fact is that if it can happen to my family, it can happen to yours, and you won't get to choose. Whether it is genetic or whether something occurs during a critical time of fetal development, I don't know. I can only tell you with an absolute certainty that it is inborn.

If you want to tout your own morality, you'd best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing I received with no effort whatsoever on my part. It is so woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever change it.

For those of you who reduce sexual orientation to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I'm puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you could change it at will?

If that's not the case, then why would you suggest that someone else can?

A popular theme in your letters is that Vermont has been infiltrated by outsiders. Both sides of my family have lived in Vermont for generations. I am heart and soul a Vermonter, so I'll thank you to stop saying that you are speaking for "true Vermonters."



Principles?

You invoke the memory of the brave people who have fought on the battlefield for this great country, saying that they didn't give their lives so that the "homosexual agenda" could tear down the principles they died defending.

My 83-year-old father fought in some of the most horrific battles of World War II, was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. He shakes his head in sadness at the life his grandson has had to live. He says he fought alongside homosexuals in those battles, that they did their part and bothered no one. One of his best friends in the service was gay, and he never knew it until the end, and when he did find out, it mattered not at all. That wasn't the measure of the man.

You religious folk just can't bear the thought that as my son emerges from the hell that was his childhood he might like to find a lifelong companion and have a measure of happiness. It offends your sensibilities that he should request the right to visit that companion in the hospital, to make medical decisions for him or to benefit from tax laws governing inheritance.

How dare he? you say. These outrageous requests would threaten the very existence of your family, would undermine the sanctity of marriage.

You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant. God is not for the privileged majority, and God knows my son has committed no sin.

The deep-thinking author of a letter to the April 12 Valley News who lectures about homosexual sin and tells us about "those of us who have been blessed with the benefits of a religious upbringing" asks: "What ever happened to the idea of striving . . . to be better human beings than we are?"

Indeed, sir, what ever happened to that?

Well done, Google.

...I did not realize Woody from "Toy Story" was gay. :)

Tears in my eyes kind of agree. Fantastic.

He's awesome!