Fact: People who go around using the term “gay” as a shoo-in for “weak” or “disappointing” are never less than obnoxious, and it’s surprising to still encounter the gaffe from time to time.
Well, a new video by New Zealand LGBTQ organization Rainbow Youth tackles the exasperating phenomenon head on.
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The spot — which has quickly gone viral — has all the makings of an instant classic: splattered pie, extremely vocal sheep, and a gang of farmhands, some of whom may, in fact, be gay-gay.
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It’s already been viewed over 200,000 times and shared more than 3,000 times. And rightly so.
Watch:
SUPER stoked to share with ya'll our first national ad campaign addressing something small that contributes to much larger issues! ?? 1/3 pic.twitter.com/oNxAuUEqY1
— RainbowYOUTH (@RainbowYOUTH) October 2, 2017
Kieran
I would have cast the heavy-set guy as the one who drops his pie and mumbles “gay”, and made Nigel the gay one.
Smith David
@Kieran…LMAO..i know right? I hate fat people too…;)
startenout
Yeah, but you’re shallow, so there’s that.
Smith David
Oh yes! I try my best to never swim out too deep. I stay in the shallow for my safety;) Forgive me. I’m just joking lol. What can I saw, I’m a moron.
Mmmrrrggglll
@Smith David:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA
be what you are 🙂
moose_keating
@Smith David Some of us knew you were kidding, so there’s that.
YourDad
Don’t know what a “pie” is that they’re eating, and can’t understand what Steve says through the accent, but love it.
charlietex
pie in that part of the world is sort of like a pot pie if you will. It’s meat and maybe some vegetables wrapped in pastry served in paper, and you eat it for lunch or a snack. Steve’s reply was “” quite gay. “
YourDad
Thanks Charlie.
ProfessorMoriarty
I was too busy imagining helping Nigel out of that bulky sweater… was there a PSA?
(but seriously, that was great!)
Sam6969
Great spot. It shows how (ordinary) homophobic folks are out in left field.
alllowercase
@Smith David Please tell me you were trying to be funny!
Smith David
Lmao..I am. I’m heavyset too. Forgive me. It was a very sad attempt at humor.
stevetalbert
Does steve say he’s gone gay???!! I dont understand through his accent. Are gay men slopoy meat pies in whereever this is from?? The sound of the splat sure sounds gay.
pudman56
WTF is your point. It really doesn’t make any sense and hello!!! Duh. It’s an anti-homophobia ad. Anyone with a couple of working brain cells knows that your don’t go gay so “gone gay” would be ignorance, not tolerance.
pudman56
I also don’t get why so many comments are about not being able to understand what they’re saying due to the accent. I didn’t find it hard to understand him in the beginning.
startenout
Brilliant!
Jack Meoff
Listening to Americans comment on anything that is not American is quite hilarious. You are all (for the most part) so America-centric and quite one eyed in your views of the world and anything not American that it’s a real eye opener.
YourDad
Guilty.
cancorv
Yair Jack. I thought that everyone in the world was American. Fortunately for Americans, there are no accents. American is the only language. I wonder whose eyes (forget ears) were opened.
GeorgiaGyrl56
Not true of all Americans, but I’ll give you that some Americans who haven’t ever left it do tend to forget there’s a ‘rest of the world’ out there.
This video was hilarious, and while I doubt it will do much toward eradicating homophobia, it just might make a few people think for a minute.
pudman56
Honestly, I don’t believe we are. Unfortunately, in a year of campaigning and 9 months of being in office, Trump has succeeded in making America appear that way. Trump and those of his ilk are undeniably America-centric/concentric, but Americans as a whole are not.
OzJosh
Sometimes there is a slight effort required in understanding a different accent, but a vast number of Americans just refuse to make it. I have about the most easily understood English accent there is (think standard BBC), but when living in America I was forced to adopt an American accent. Even just not over-emphasising terminal “r”s in words like “car” would stop conversations dead. Even if the context would have made the contentious word blinding obvious, they would still have an issue. I eventually decided that some Americans simply can’t process or tolerate difference. No wonder there’s a race problem.
cancorv
Destroys homophobia. Ha! (said in the scoffing tone). It’ll take a bit more than the splat of a meat pie.
Gordon of the Bassets
There is a language in-joke here. NZ is sometimes called the Land of the Long Flat Vowel – a play on its romantic nickname, Land of the Long White Cloud. “I” becomes “U” – popular food fish and chips becomes fush und chups (U as in cup). Therefore “gay” might be “guy”, but sounded in the ad as something in between. The one neutral vowel – /?/ – very slightly inflected serves for all vowels.
Too much info? Sorry
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Throbert McGee
American here and I understood everything but Steve’s reply. But I assume the joke is that he more or less said “I’m gay,” but since he’s older, we’re not sure whether he meant “I’m happy” or “I’m homosexual.”
danes4
Gay people do become older people. Steve’s reply is “quite gay”.