Background: “As previously covered by RedState, M&M’s marketing team decided to take the beloved characters and begin changing up how they act and behave.”
Related: What if My Bag of Limited-Time “All-Female” M&M Candies Identifies as Male?
While Red and Yellow were left alone, Green was defeminized so that she wasn’t so obviously a woman, which was offensive to the hard left for some reason. Moreover, they began adding other colors for the various flavors coming out, but they were attached to social messaging in the “modern audiences” vein.
Sorry for that last phrase in the title – there are times I just want to batter the Left with its own words. In this case, that gawdawful phrase pertains to “cultural sensitivity.” The only thing wrong with me using that phrase was not putting “Traditional American” as the required modifier – but that’s the sense of it I wanted to portray. After all, the Left NEVER cares what OUR “cultural sensitives” may be – their point is to destroy it by blaming us for not “caring” about other cultures.
My response to that is my usual “Up Yours!”. I’m tired of being told that I’m in the wrong all the time, and if you’ve noticed, I’m now the living embodiment of “Network” where I’m mad as hell and I’m not taking it anymore. Nor should any of us. The problem is that the Left, having cowed most of us on the Right into silence and quietly acceding to their demands that we adopt and affirm their moralities, they believe they own us lock, stock, and barrel. Who can blame them – not enough of us stand up and get in their faces and do it in a way that they are intellectually sliced and diced with measurements using nanometers.
I am glad to report that almost a critical mass is being assembled and is making a difference in telling Mars to stuff it. Certainly, Steve has had fun with M&Ms and their gender-benderness in trying to appeal to a micro-slice of the Left (here, here, and here). Their problem is in trying to be inclusive, they’ve antagonized, alienated, and insulted a huge percentage of their chocolate-loving base that simply want to see M&Ms as candy instead of some anthropomorphic work spokesters. We hate the idea that the Left had sown chaos into Society by demanding that, like King Nebuchadnezzar, that we all bow down to their Sexuality God whose form and purpose is forever changing on a whim. 2+2=5 and don’t believe our lyin’ eyes as to what we see right in front of us.
Let candy be candy! And stop bothering there rest of us, eh?
So this from RedState absolutely encompasses my view on how the Left has been hijacking traditional American icons (like the Velma “reboot” who is black, gay (and actively acting all that out), and Scooby and Doo have been written out of the script in order to take a silly, lighthearted cartoon to be yet another “social justice messaging platform).:
So, all of the below could be the Notable Quote. That first bolded line could be a Blogline of the Day on all its own.
The legitimate anger from America came with the modernizing of characters to appeal to a group of people who continuously antagonize everyone else with their attempts to be social dictators. It began warping and eliminating the femininity of certain characters, which is a problem we see all around our society to the point where women have been pushed out of their own spaces
And I’m tired of how Mars has, like other companies have decided that EVERYONE has to be Woke and go along with them. And NO ONE can be left alone by the Left:
Moreover, these new characters and changes to the old ones were clearly done for political purposes and all of them catered to leftist sentiments. Of course, that wasn’t going to sit well with half of America, and it’s odd that M&Ms seems surprised to the point of offense that it did.
Like everything else that woke culture touches, the candies had to obey certain rules and these rules sapped all the personality out of them. Then it proceeded to sexualize them by making two of them gay.
It’s absolutely annoying that nearly everything has to be this politicized nowadays, and people are getting sick and tired of always having it shoved in their faces. Moreover, it’s a story that’s been repeated dozens of times from company to company. M&Ms is apparently one company that didn’t learn the lesson.
Maya Rudolph isn’t going to win those people back. They missed the point of the anger, and if that’s the case, then they’ll definitely make this mistake again.
Er, what’s a Maya Rudolph and why should I even care that I don’t know who she is? Oh, I looked her up – and I don’t care.
IT’S CANDY, you NITWITS! And yes, you suffered adverse financial results (Yay, GO BROKE!). It’s worth reading the RedState piece in toto. Then go over to Twitchy and laugh evilly as well.
Seriously, “spokescandies”??
