Ford pulls LR/Jag GLBT support due to American Family threat

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Does the word "oxymoronic" come to mind for anyone else?

Thank you! That's the word I was looking for.

[BarTopDancer]

I wonder how many gay (closeted or not) bible thumpers there are.

What was that about people who are homophobic are scared they might be gay?

[innerSpaceman]

Bible thumpers who can only afford to buy a car once ever 23 years vs. gays who get a new vehicle every 5. Math, please.


Oh, and the word I would have been looking for was simply "moronic," no oxy required.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Bible thumpers who can only afford to buy a car once ever 23 years vs. gays who get a new vehicle every 5. Math, please.

Hey! I am a thumper, and I (well, my wife and I) have purchased 5 new vehicles in the last 14.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Hey! I am a thumper...

Sorry, an image of 'Bambi' just flashed through my head for a second.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Bible thumpers who can only afford to buy a car once ever 23 years vs. gays who get a new vehicle every 5. Math, please.

Uh... it was my understanding there would be no math.

But since you asked for math, here's some.

The following is a hypothetical situation. I do not know the actual demographics for car-buying purchases (dammit, if I were still working at my old job, I could have told you) involved in this situation, I am merely suggesting a possible scenario.

If there are at least 4.7 times as many Bible-Thumping-Rednecks who purchase new vehicles every 23 years as there are Limp-Wristed-Homos [I figured I could be equally insulting] who buy new vehicles every 5 years, then the Thumpers have greater buying clout.

So do the Thumpers outnumber us 'Mos five to one? As a nation, possibly. Do they outnumber us in the Bible Belt! Almost certainly. Does Ford need to be concerned for their dealers located in those wretched regions? From a business standpoint, I think they do.

Look, I'd love it if Ford would tell the AFA to go fück themselves. (Hell, I'd love it if the AFA and their moronic brethren all drank grape Kool-Aid in Guyana!) But with the financial instability so prevalent in the automotive industry right now, I can hardly blame Ford for trying to appeal to the widest number of people possible. I think they went about it the wrong way, but I can understand their motivations.

[innerSpaceman]

And, if I understand things correctly, it all ended up well anyway. Ford will (correct me if I'm wrong) continue to advertise in gay publications, The Advocate will thus have no basis on which to sue, and the ads will merely be targeted to gays as if they were ordinary people motivated by vehicle needs rather than sexual partner preferences.

I think I rather like the way this turned out. (The ends, though certainly not the means.)

[Ponine]

I'm late into this thread, but caught this article yesterday...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/12/....ap/index.html

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- The conservative American Family Association says it will consider reinstating a boycott against Ford Motor Co. because the automaker plans to continue running advertisements in gay publications.

Ford said last week it planned to stop advertising its Jaguar and Land Rover luxury brands in gay publications to reduce its marketing costs.

But after gay rights groups complained and held meetings with the automaker, Ford reversed course and said Wednesday it would continue to advertise all of its eight brands in gay publications.

There was a Jaguar ad Thursday afternoon on the Web site of The Advocate, a biweekly gay magazine.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Think maybe Ford will switch sides again?

[€uroMeinke]

Maybe Ford should stop meeting with special interest groups and let their marketing department do their job.