burger king: virtue signaling gone wrong

[dilbert firestorm]

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_bri...ns-pride-month

Burger King Made a Whopper With Same-Sex Buns for Pride Month, and It Did Not Go Over Well

Are you a "two tops" or a "two bottoms" guy?

Is your burger a top or a bottom?
Burger King

By Bonnie Stiernberg @aahrealbonsters

It’s June, which means it’s time for brands everywhere to try and exploit Pride Month with some ill-advised and clunky marketing campaigns, and we’ve got a real doozy today thanks to Burger King Austria. On Monday, the fast-food company unveiled its new Pride Whopper, which features “same-sex” buns — two tops or two bottoms. Naturally, it did not go over well.

According to an Instagram post by Burger King Austria, the Pride Whoppers come “with two matching buns for equal love and equal rights.”

“We stand for the equal rights of all identities and sexual orientations,” it reads. “A little twist to put a smile on your face and remind us to treat each other respectfully and peacefully. No matter who you are and who you love.”

That’s all fine, but is it really “respectful” to make your Pride burger something that could be interpreted as being a sexual joke about “tops” and “bottoms”? (Are we to presume that the generic Whopper is a vers?) Even if we assume that Burger King did not intend to specify whether its cheeseburgers prefer to penetrate their sexual partners or be penetrated by them — and that feels like a pretty safe assumption, given their decision to pair two tops together and two bottoms together — it’s still an embarrassingly basic view of what it means to be LGBTQ+. If the top and bottoms of the buns are supposed to represent gender rather than sexual proclivity, what kind of burgers are bisexual or pansexual people supposed to order? We shudder to think of what sort of offensive and reductive metaphor the marketing team would have come up with for a trans burger had they thought to include them.

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the hardest miss i have seen this pride month is burger king’s pride whoppers. one has two top buns, the other two bottom buns. i understand what they were going for, but you can tell there was not a single homosexual present in that board room.
— ˗ˏˋthe american psycho´ˎ˗ (@batemanposting) June 6, 2022

If you happen to live in Austria, you can pick up your same-sex Pride Whopper now until June 20. Fortunately, it’s not available here in the States; Burger King’s American Pride Whopper is simply a regular Whopper packaged in a rainbow wrapper that reads “We are all the same inside” on the inside packaging. But if anything, this all serves as a reminder that brands shouldn’t be trying to exploit marginalized communities to make a few extra dollars.

[Jacuzzme]

Burger King’s American Pride Whopper is simply a regular Whopper packaged in a rainbow wrapper that reads “We are all the same inside” on the inside packaging.

Except for that whole reproductive system thing.

[Chung Tran]

I might grab a Whopper and keep the wrapper as a collector's item. I proudly have a Head Kerchief Aunt Jemimah Syrup bottle, that was dis-continued.

Maybe there's money in Mammy symbols and Gay literature in the future?

[dilbert firestorm]

well good luck. you' have to go to austria for that.

[Chung Tran]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

well good luck. you' have to go to austria for that.

No I don't. Austria has the Queer Burger, but we get the rainbow wrapper.

[Levianon17]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_bri...ns-pride-month

Burger King Made a Whopper With Same-Sex Buns for Pride Month, and It Did Not Go Over Well

Are you a "two tops" or a "two bottoms" guy?

Is your burger a top or a bottom?
Burger King

By Bonnie Stiernberg @aahrealbonsters

It’s June, which means it’s time for brands everywhere to try and exploit Pride Month with some ill-advised and clunky marketing campaigns, and we’ve got a real doozy today thanks to Burger King Austria. On Monday, the fast-food company unveiled its new Pride Whopper, which features “same-sex” buns — two tops or two bottoms. Naturally, it did not go over well.

According to an Instagram post by Burger King Austria, the Pride Whoppers come “with two matching buns for equal love and equal rights.”

“We stand for the equal rights of all identities and sexual orientations,” it reads. “A little twist to put a smile on your face and remind us to treat each other respectfully and peacefully. No matter who you are and who you love.”

That’s all fine, but is it really “respectful” to make your Pride burger something that could be interpreted as being a sexual joke about “tops” and “bottoms”? (Are we to presume that the generic Whopper is a vers?) Even if we assume that Burger King did not intend to specify whether its cheeseburgers prefer to penetrate their sexual partners or be penetrated by them — and that feels like a pretty safe assumption, given their decision to pair two tops together and two bottoms together — it’s still an embarrassingly basic view of what it means to be LGBTQ+. If the top and bottoms of the buns are supposed to represent gender rather than sexual proclivity, what kind of burgers are bisexual or pansexual people supposed to order? We shudder to think of what sort of offensive and reductive metaphor the marketing team would have come up with for a trans burger had they thought to include them.

https://twitter.com/JarettSays/statu...43309575090177


https://twitter.com/MarshallWSL/stat...20228694069251


https://twitter.com/batemanposting/s...92662117511172

the hardest miss i have seen this pride month is burger king’s pride whoppers. one has two top buns, the other two bottom buns. i understand what they were going for, but you can tell there was not a single homosexual present in that board room.
— ˗ˏˋthe american psycho´ˎ˗ (@batemanposting) June 6, 2022

If you happen to live in Austria, you can pick up your same-sex Pride Whopper now until June 20. Fortunately, it’s not available here in the States; Burger King’s American Pride Whopper is simply a regular Whopper packaged in a rainbow wrapper that reads “We are all the same inside” on the inside packaging. But if anything, this all serves as a reminder that brands shouldn’t be trying to exploit marginalized communities to make a few extra dollars.

I haven't gone to Burger King or McDonalds in about twenty years. This is incentive enough for me to do another twenty years to abstain from their trashy food.

[Yssup Rider]

Poor Buttplug.
Poor LeviQanon.
Poor phobes!

Happy Pride month bitches.

[Austin Ellen]

Happy Pride Month Princess Yssup. I support gay rights so be proud that you like sucking those big dicks. Be proud that you like to bend over and take it up the ass. Let that freak flag fly!!

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Poor Buttplug.
Poor LeviQanon.
Poor phobes!

Happy Pride month bitches.

[Yssup Rider]

Did I address you, AE?

And do you have any evidence for your personal and excessively rude attack? I’d call you names, but I respect my elders.

[Austin Ellen]

Sugartits, I'm not being rude. I'm supporting your right to take it up the ass. And your right to enjoy sucking dick.

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Did I address you, AE?

And do you have any evidence for your personal and excessively rude attack? I’d call you names, but I respect my elders.

[Yssup Rider]

I appreciate that, but unlike you, that’s neither my business nor my pleasure.

[Levianon17]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Poor Buttplug.
Poor LeviQanon.
Poor phobes!

Happy Pride month bitches.

If you're eating at Fast Food joints you have no pride. If you want to look like a dumb ass with no pride and eat a preformed Burger of mystery meat with two top buns or two bottom buns dine at Burger King. That's about your style anyway. Dine on.

[HedonistForever]

Funny thing about all these corporations who feel like they need to get on board the LGBTQ+ bandwagon and they say something they think will be welcomed, only to get boycotted!!! ( not saying this happened )


FYI corporations, you may not do ANYTHING off script. Only repeat what you have been told to say and leave it at that.

[Salty Again]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

Sugartits, I'm not being rude. I'm supporting your right to take it up the ass. And your right to enjoy sucking dick.

... Blimey! ... You're surely gettin' a Brisbane Beating
in every post, Yssup...

Maybe next time you won't be so quick to
piss-with Ellen.

#### Salty

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

Happy Pride Month Princess Yssup. I support gay rights so be proud that you like sucking those big dicks. Be proud that you like to bend over and take it up the ass. Let that freak flag fly!!

thats YR!. he likes the bohica treatment.


he doesn't know when to stop. his ass gonna be raw.