American Express: Don't munch carpet without it

[Dan Druff]

Add American Express to the list of companies which have decided to pander to liberal and gay customers by presenting imagery of a happy gay couple, while pretending they are just depicting something totally mainstream.

This is what you see on the front page right now of americanexpress.com:




While you can't see the face of the woman on the left, it's clearly a woman from the body type and style of dress.

They even doubled down on their political correctness by making the lesbian couple interracial.

How progressive!

Strange how they decided not to depict one of the women as butch, even though at least one butch exists in most lesbian couples. I guess that's not aesthetically pleasing enough for the front page of americanexpress.com.

Who needs lesbian porn when you can simply log in to pay your credit card bill?

[Dan Druff]

American Express, you've come a long way, baby!

[tyde]

OR MAYBE THEY'RE JUST FRIENDS AND YOU'RE A HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLE

[Dan Druff]

OR MAYBE THEIR JUST FRIENDS AND YOU'RE A HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLE

Maybe.

Is that the way you walk with your male friends when you visit romantic cabins in the woods together?

If so, that might explain a lot.

[Dan Druff]

BTW, this isn't any kind of negative commentary on gay couples.

It's a big LOL at large corporations trying to pander via promotional imagery.

[ToasterOven]

Gay people are mainstream, chief.

[Dan Druff]

Gay people are mainstream, chief.

Mostly accepted, yes.

Mainstream, no.

The majority, definitely not.

It doesn't bother me to see gay couples depicted in media, but only when it's not trying to hit me over the head with, "Hey look! A gay couple! And it's so normal that we are showing them in our ad! See, we are a progressive company!"

Also, it's funny how the gay people shown in these photos/commercials are always straight-acting. The men are masculine, and the women are feminine/pretty. It's like they want to show a gay couple, but don't want them to be "too gay", because they think people won't be able to handle it.

[Krypt]

I have the gold card druff, what are you rocking?

[Dan Druff]

I have the gold card druff, what are you rocking?

Gold cards are so 1980s.

[Krypt]

platinum fee is too damn high

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

Druff really?

I've been to lemon party and this add grossed me out worse than that. How on Earth will their business go up? More people will leave the company as their will be people new to it. Aren't liberals the ones that scream the loudest on gmo's and msg and all the other acronyms people put in their bodies anyway? I can't picture any leftist lover of their own fart smell buying unhealthy soup regardless. Plus aren't most fags total foodies? I just don't see anyway possible for this to be a good business move.

I don't want to craze it up and explain why I think this but I'm afraid if Campbell's is putting out an add like this they must think or know that many other companies are coming out with gay stuff soon... to the point where there will simply be too many products for conservatives to boycott.

Obviously there is a higher percentage of blacks in the U.S. than there are gays but I see it being similar to that token black phase in ads that started up 15-20 years ago. Only now with gays. I hope I'm wrong.

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[Brittney Griner's Clit]

[Dan Druff]

platinum fee is too damn high

I have a business platinum card with no fee. Its main benefit is 3% cash back on a category you choose (I went with restaurants). You also get a pretty good bonus for signing up and spending $3k or whatever. But you need a business TIN to get it.

[tyde]

platinum fee is too damn high

I have a business platinum card with no fee. Its main benefit is 3% cash back on a category you choose (I went with restaurants). You also get a pretty good bonus for signing up and spending $3k or whatever. But you need a business TIN to get it.

nice response time

you certainly never miss an opportunity to posture

wp

[simpdog]

platinum fee is too damn high

I have a business platinum card with no fee. Its main benefit is 3% cash back on a category you choose (I went with restaurants). You also get a pretty good bonus for signing up and spending $3k or whatever. But you need a business TIN to get it.

I wonder if Amex ever visited PFA to check in on your "business"

[FRANKRIZZO]

The taller colored one is in charge you can tell by how the subservient one gazes up in her face with a smile from ear to ear while the tall one doesn't return her gaze and takes her for granted. The subservient one can't wait to give her shaka zulu girlfriends vagina a good tonging. Its fucking obscene.

[simpdog]

Could possibly be Krypt on the left if he has long hair.

[FRANKRIZZO]

Shoulda had someone like above in that add to keep the shit real!

[ToasterOven]

Gay people are mainstream, chief.

Mostly accepted, yes.

Mainstream, no.

The majority, definitely not.

It doesn't bother me to see gay couples depicted in media, but only when it's not trying to hit me over the head with, "Hey look! A gay couple! And it's so normal that we are showing them in our ad! See, we are a progressive company!"

Also, it's funny how the gay people shown in these photos/commercials are always straight-acting. The men are masculine, and the women are feminine/pretty. It's like they want to show a gay couple, but don't want them to be "too gay", because they think people won't be able to handle it.

I think you might be digging a little deep here. People that have American Express cards are likely educated and socially progressive, or at least agnostic about gays. And they've been putting good looking people in ads since ads began, I doubt gayness will change that philosophy.

[Dan Druff]

Mostly accepted, yes.

Mainstream, no.

The majority, definitely not.

It doesn't bother me to see gay couples depicted in media, but only when it's not trying to hit me over the head with, "Hey look! A gay couple! And it's so normal that we are showing them in our ad! See, we are a progressive company!"

Also, it's funny how the gay people shown in these photos/commercials are always straight-acting. The men are masculine, and the women are feminine/pretty. It's like they want to show a gay couple, but don't want them to be "too gay", because they think people won't be able to handle it.

I think you might be digging a little deep here. People that have American Express cards are likely educated and socially progressive, or at least agnostic about gays. And they've been putting good looking people in ads since ads began, I doubt gayness will change that philosophy.

It's not really about good looking people, though. An effeminate gay guy can still be good looking. A butch woman doesn't have to be ugly, even if she doesn't appeal to heterosexual men.

The whole thing to me just reeks of pandering, where they (and I mean all of these companies, not just Amex) wants to make it clear they support the gays, but they aren't yet ready to show a realistic gay couple for fear that it won't play well for marketing. My point is that if you're not willing to depict gay couples as they typically are, don't depict them at all. Don't try to come off all progressive and then only show gay couples which are more "comfortable" for straight people to view.

And I still don't see the point of this. Gay couples are a small percentage of Amex users, yet that's the image they specifically choose to depict on the front page. It's not like they're depicting a group of people (like on a cruise where 2 of the 20 people shown are a gay couple). This is like, "Look at us! We are showing a gay couple instead of a straight one, so it means we're tolerant", when in the meantime something like 90% or more of their clientele is heterosexual.

I just laugh at marketing departments trying to look sensitive and progressive. I guess it works with certain people, though. A girl I know couldn't stop praising Target because they stopped separating toys into "boys' toys" and "girls' toys" sections, as if any 3-year-old is going to give a shit what section you buy his or her toy from.