Far-right hate group One Million Moms continues its campaign to alert us to gay-friendly brands and businesses. For that, we thank them!
The latest company to fall into its sights is the global hotel chain, Hilton. An advert promoting the Hilton Honors scheme promotes the idea that anyone who takes advantage of the scheme will receive celebrity treatment, just as if they were Paris Hilton.
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The commercial, which actually first appeared five months ago (One Million Moms are often waaaaay behind in these matters) features Paris Hilton in an all-pink ensemble, strutting through a hotel lobby.
Other customers enrolled in the scheme are similarly dressed head-to-toe in pink, clutching handbag-sized dogs, and extolling the virtues of membership. One woman even says “Slay” which we all know is drag queen slang, and therefore part of the gay agenda lexicon.
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“Obviously gender-confused”
Given the ad came out five months ago, we’re guessing its makers were also pegging it on the post-Barbie love for all things pink.
Of course, that’s not how One Million Moms sees it. For them, the brand is flaunting “an alternative lifestyle to sell their services.”
In a message to supporters, the group said, “Hilton is attempting to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle with its liberal advertising choices. A recent Hilton Honors commercial, ‘Celebrity Treatment,’ focuses on several hotel guests in the lobby, including Paris Hilton and other celebrities, wearing flamboyant, pink clothing and accessories.”
“The hotel chain is obviously pushing the LGBTQ agenda with this commercial, which depicts individuals, couples, and families, all in obviously gender-confused roles. As such, the ad features actors portraying multiple homosexual and transgender characters. The commercial blatantly throws the LGBTQ lifestyle in the viewer’s face while also promoting the inclusivity of Hilton Honors by declaring, ‘When you want the celebrity treatment no matter who you are, It Matters Where You Stay’.”
“This ad is inappropriate on many levels and is attempting to desensitize viewers. Hilton should avoid aiming to please a small percentage of consumers while pushing away conservative customers.”
It concludes, “that there is concern about how this advertisement pushes the LGBTQ agenda, but it is also of great concern that the commercial airs when children will likely be watching television.”
It then urges followers to sign a petition to register their disgust at the advert.
Gay-friendly Hilton
Hilton has, for many years, promoted its welcome to a diverse range of customers. On the most recent HRC Corporate Equality Index, which ranks points regarding diversity and inclusion at work, it scored the top mark of 100. This placed it on HRC’s Equality 100 Award CEI recipients list.
Here’s a cute advert it did a couple of years ago with two gay dads and their son checking into a Hilton hotel. We’re guessing One Million Moms missed out on this one!
Other brands One Million Moms have recently targetted include eHarmony (for having a gay couple in an advert) and Macy’s (for featuring two non-binary performers in last year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade).
It even complained about adverts celebrating Jesus aired during the Super Bowl. The pressure group said the adverts did not condemn sin and LGBTQ+ lifestyles enough.
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mildredspierce
These “moms” must live in black and white. Totally sad. They must faint at the sight of blood.
Mack
They are an entertaining group of idiots.
abfab
Just a few key words and colors in your marketing and ad campaign, and VOILA! Millions in ad dollars saved and all because of a few church ladies. Thank you, ma’am!
Den
In keeping with the right wing tendency to lie like a carpet, “One Million Moms” has a mailing list of around 180,000 (their estimate, not an outside accounting). And their petitions have never managed to get more than 25,000 signatures.
They are laughable.
abfab
25,000 envelopes is all ShaverC can handle.
Mr-DJ
To the “180k Moms” (not million): We thank you for your self-identification as we will make sure you do not stay in our hotels, or any affiliated hotels. We would not like to see our normal, moral, and decent guests be upset by your tyrannical, self-righteous rants were you to manage to get a room here. Maybe for your vacations, you could instead move your lawn chairs over to your trailer park’s ‘doggy poop yard’ for a change of scenery,….. and some fresher air.
Bosch
“alternative lifestyle” is what one million moms calls it when you don’t lie about all the lesbian sex you have.
abfab
You know what’s really disgusting………..seeing large groups of right wingers on the grand-tour in Europe…you know, London, Paris, Venice. You can spot them across the avenues and streets. The loud talkers. Those annoying southern drawels. Making demands in English. Loudly. Talk about a boring lifestsyle.
Run!
These people don’t even stay in the better hotels. They’re stingey and uptight. Lifestyle. Not a clue.
Diplomat
In Venice those obnoxious ones blow it for all Americans. Me and my party were never more rudely served than in St. Mark’s Square. And we were a mild mannered bunch as were most. Horrid. Oddly enough I didn’t notice it so much in Canne or San Tropez but Italy was atrocious. Tho the French stateside yikes, don’t get me started.
Bosch
“Oddly enough I didn’t notice it so much in Canne or San Tropez”
I think I know why, but i don’t want everyone to know I’m a classist.
abfab
San Marco Piazza is so last century, popular with commoners and the bourgeoisie. The center of the tourist trade and billions of selfie takers from Japan and white trash from the US.
Diplomat
But yet you went there. Odd.
abfab
What’s odd is you bragging to the Gay world that you went there and had a shitty time with your ”party”.
Obnoxious Americans….that’s you.
Diplomat
Gargoyles are so humorous at times. (wink)
Paulie P
It seems pink make you gay and any hint of a rainbow the same. What ever happened to pink being just a color or in this case Paris’s favorite color and a rainbow being well, just a rainbow.
Enough people. Stop looking for trouble when no trouble is present.
abfab
Okay Paulie, settle down now.
bachy
@Paulie: I suspect you work in design (like me) or another profession where you make use of color frequently. Because I work with color almost constantly, I just think of them as, simply… colors. But I must confess that I am often amazed at how the average person is emotionally impacted by the choice of color. People link a wide range of (often inconsistent) emotions and associations with colors.
abfab
For example, orange.
bachy
LOL
abfab
Oh, and RED! Red baseball caps. And BLONDE! Bleach-blonde republican women.
dbmcvey
decraps does speeches for One Million Moms.
abfab
He’s one mother f ucker.
inbama
@dbmcvey
Do you know that for a fact or are you just being the Queer Kari Lake again?
abfab
The clown admitted to it.
abfab
Then it’s little wonder why that organization is so f ucked up.
bachy
@decranzy: I believe there is room for detransitioners in the gay movement and Democratic party.
bachy
I understand completely. But even though you believe you were failed by the medical community’s current understanding of gender, with a Democratic administration people like you will at least have the opportunity to experiment with new ideas and approaches to gender expression. We can build on our misapprehensions and find more effective directions. Androgynous and gender dysphoric people will be hard-pressed to find anything like that with the GOP.
RoyM
These women are basically nothing but rabid animals and should be treated accordingly.
abfab
And they home-school. Imagine the horrible education these poor little children are recieving.