re: SoFi gay commercial.

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Ok, now you're just intentionally avoiding the question

I watch very little TV these days, so I certainly don't claim to be an expert. But I have a sneaking suspicion that some observation biases are in play here. Now, that's not to say that I don't think gay people, or black people, or whatever, aren't over-represented in advertisements; I think they likely are. I just don't think they are over-represented by nearly the factor this board seems to think they are.

I framed the question like I did because I think the average person would vastly underestimate the number of commercials they watch, and the number of unique individuals in those commercials. And because of that, and because of the fact that they keenly remember any commercial that upsets them (by including gay people), they are over-estimating the percentage of commercials that have gay people because they are under-estimating the number of total people in the commercials they watch.

I don't care enough about the subject to do a deep dive, but I did a quick google search regarding the kind of TV I do still watch: live sports. This article is old, but I found it interesting: LINK

BCS title games, and March Madness basketball games, probably have more commercials than the average game, but considering this was from years and years ago, I imagine the average game commercial count has crept up to this point, at minimum.

Well over a hundred commercials in a football game. Just over a hundred commercials in a basketball game. Now, are there repeat commercials? Of course. And some commercials don't even contain a single human. But some contain a half dozen or more. So we're easily talking dozens, if not well over a hundred, individual unique humans in commercials in a single sporting event.

Estimates beyond this point would obviously be utterly skewed, but I was anticipating people to estimate the number of unique humans in commercials they saw in a month to be a few dozen, instead of the likely several hundred or more that it is in reality.

Because no, 75% of the people you see in commercials definitely aren't gay

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Yes. It’s completely obvious you don’t care enough about subject to do a deep dive…

Also, That’s what he said…

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Because no, 75% of the people you see in commercials definitely aren't gay

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I know that, 75% of them just seem gay to me. Like extremely girly men

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Yes. It’s completely obvious you don’t care enough about subject to do a deep dive…

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I did one google search and clicked on the third link from the top, read that one short article, then typed that post, which took me less than five minutes, because I type a touch over 100wpm.

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Also, That’s what he said…

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But at least this quip saved your non-response response from being an entire waste of time and space

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How does it feel to be a bigoted racist misogynistic homophobe?

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I feel fine thank you.

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How does it feel to be a bigoted racist misogynistic homophobe?

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Do you have He/Him or She/Her on your LinkedIn? Tells me who I need to never interview

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How does it feel to be a bigoted racist misogynistic homophobe?

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I wish the US was like middle eastern countries or Russia when it comes to these issues. (These issues only)

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If only we could throw the gays off of roofs

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dallastigers

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It’s ok that you don’t have a response that you’re comfortable with. No shame in that

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supported men in women's bathrooms

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I don’t know that I “support it” as much as I don’t have strong feelings on the subject.

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or the trans movement in general

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At this point, I honestly don’t know which planks are required for this platform. Give be some bullet points and I’m happy to give a thumbs up or down to each.

With all of that said, while my three grandfathers (one set of grandparents divorced long before I was born) would all be vastly more conservative than I am regarding trans issues, no, I don’t believe any would be ashamed of me or any of the positions I might argue for, even if they would disagree with them.

Though I’ll admit, I’ve never discussed trans issues with any of my grandparents, to the best of my recollection

He means if you didn’t vote for Biden you’re a bigot