Gay rights! Or is it?Ī number of media outlets have rushed to celebrate the commercial, with The Independent calling it “ heartwarming” and Business Insider dubbing it a “ two-minute masterpiece.” Fast Company goes so far as to hail it as “ a remarkable feat,” praising the advert’s portrayal of a “completely normalized same-sex relationship.” It’s not hard to understand this impulse, given the dearth of queer representation in mainstream media. The two are then shown, happily coupled with a daughter of their own, getting out of a Renault Clio. (One’s French, the other’s British.) The French one marries a dude, and the British one’s like, “No…” but then the French one’s like, “ Non…” She leaves her husband and drives to see her redheaded childhood sweetheart. The ad at hand is a new spot for the Renault Clio, which hit YouTube last Thursday, and which might as well be called “Riding in This One Particular Car with Girls.” Two women, who meet as kids, are shown bonding, making out, and falling in love in various iterations of the car model, only to be kept apart by familial homophobia and the fact that they live in different countries. I thought we all knew this? But after seeing the glowing media coverage of a new gay car commercial, I guess we need to go over it again.
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Anyway, the point is that brands are not part of the LGBTQ community, no matter how many times they include us in their advertising material. The B in LGBTQ doesn’t stand for brands! It stands for bisexual.