Recently, I came across One Million Moms’ statement that a GEICO Insurance TV commercial ‘…plays with the idea of bestiality.’ What? That cute little gecko? Nope—it turns out it’s a commercial with Maxwell the pig and he’s in a car with is date (a human girl). The commercial shows them in his car overlooking the city and the car broke down. Maxwell is showing how GEICO’s app makes it easy to call for a tow truck. His date is really disappointed that they won’t be getting any alone time since the tow truck is on its way.
On their website, One Million Moms addresses their audience with this: ‘Mom, are you fed up with the filth many segments of our society, especially the entertainment media, are throwing at our children?’ Their goal is “…to stop the exploitation of… children especially by the entertainment media” and I completely admire their stand. I do really believe that some things in media nowadays aren’t helping children (boys and girls) develop a healthy image of themselves and of others. There are certain things that children shouldn’t be subject to because they aren’t mature enough to handle it.
So while I understand the frustration of One Million Moms, I personally wouldn’t say that the GEICO commercial directly points to bestiality. I looked up the definition of bestiality (you know, in case I have this all wrong) and it’s defined as 1) savagely cruel or depraved behaviour and 2) sexual intercourse between a person and an animal.
Spill it! Do you think this GEICO ad encourage bestiality?
Check out another debatable commercial—this time from Fiat.
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