I must admit, once the singing started, I burst out laughing. I'm sure anyone who has ever created any sort of content has looked back at some of their early stuff and cringed. This LMNOP crowd take that to a new level. This looks like they're creating a cringefest on purpose.
"The right to disassociate with drag queens." My brain immediately went to: going to the club, getting sensory overload, and having a drag queen sit with you to make sure you're okay.
Even if you interpret this as they meant it - "stop associating with drag queens" - it's still weird. Not all drag queens are gay for one thing. And it also conjures up a mental image of a huge army of drag queens all dressed up, just hanging around with straight men, doing nothing "worse" than having a few drinks or watching football in a companionable sort of way. Seems rather sweet and harmless to me.
This ad is like one of those weird fever dreams you have where you're not _fully_ asleep so you get little bits of dream-brain nonsense mixed in with the sensation that you're drowning in blankets.
I love the "We can't have gender neutral bathrooms! What will we tell the children?!?" Argument. "Hey kids, you know how we all use the same bathroom at home? Yeah. Just like that."
I doubt kids would even question it- if anything, they're more likely to ask why everyone uses the same bathroom at home, but at school boys and girls have to use different ones.
@@bronztrooper9440 Not to mention that younger kids will go into the "wrong" gender segregated bathroom sometimes if boys are out with just with their Mum or girls are out with just their Dad
pretty much. I was 12 and the school completely re-did one of their bathrooms to be for everyone. Honestly it was the most popular one because all the cubicles had doors that actually gave you privacy-- it was a pretty terrible school so not having to worry about people looking in at you was a great relief for everyone. No one thought it was weird. Everybody was good with the change, and that was back in 2012.
@@bronztrooper9440 I always wanted to know the answer to that question and nobody ever came with a satisfactory explanation (to me). Except for the use of mictory for men (which is not always present and could be separated) why men/women bathrooms???
The “make the family great again” came from the fact that they’re tearing their own families apart with their bigotry and are entirely self unaware about it
Families were Great when tne father was a disciplinarian who terrorized the kids and everyone was forcibly conditioned to conform to narrow norms. They called it freedom, and probably godliness.
I agree with “Make a family great.” Make the family sweet and inclusive to everyone, be friendly and treat everyone with love and respect they deserve. That’s what a great family is. Not this homophobic BS.
"Make the family great again" shouted those that disown, shame, harm, abuse their kids for being who they are without hurting anyone. What a great message indeed. At least now I know why they are against abortions. Why would you need abortions when you see your children as disposable objects that you can destroy and throw away when they do something you don't "agree with"?
2 theories I have on the editing: 1. They are so ordinary they don't know how to use video editing software because (insert gender norm of the 1950s US here) 2. They hired an outside editor who was so confused and wanted to undermine the project, but also needed to get paid Either way, I find it hilarious. Just perfectly highlights the state of the US right now
I remember getting a homophobic ad on one of YOUR VIDEOS, then the next video I watched had a buzzfeed type quiz thing saying “Are You Gay? Take this quiz to find out!” So clearly, my advertisement spy team is failing miserably.
@@Kai_The_Kai I'm exactly as you are: AFAB, genderfluid, even changed my sex to "X" on my birth certificate and license as it is recognized in New York. I would've absolutely cracked up if I got an estrogen ad, especially when I'm already technically on it as I take birth control every day so I can skip my periods for months. If I had gotten a transphobic one though, I would've been so angry. I'm honestly glad I pay for premium because I'd be giving up on this site if I had to watch ads.
I'll never get it. I'm straight. Why would I care what non-straight people do? As long as they aren't forcing me to watch hardcore gay porn, it doesn't affect me at all. I mean, I guess they could sexually assault me, but straight people can do that too, that's not a reason to be anti-gay, that's a reason to be anti-sexual assault.
For real. I always hear it when someone comes out of the closet and there are like 35352344 people saying ‘OH I HoPe YoU DOnT ROpE MEh!!, as if a person of the opposite gender couldn’t do the same thing
@@Scifi4life @Dr Samuel Hayden secret gaming channel by 'being taught it', what is actually happening is 'being taught LGBTQ people EXIST', not that they should be LGBTQ lol. Like I swear straight people will hear that LGBTQ inclusivity is being taught in schools and assume kids are being brainwashed into being gay. NO, they're being taught LGBTQ+ people EXIST, and to be kind and accepting toward them because they're inevitably gonna come across them, or may turn out to be a part of the community themselves. Considering how much bullying there is in school's towards our community, that education is necessary. And last time I checked, kids are allowed to know straight people exist, they're allowed to know their parents are married, and allowed to watch disney movies with heterosexual couples who kiss and get married, and they know that people assigned female at birth can be girls and people assigned male can be boys. They know straight and cis people exist, so why on earth should they not also know LGBTQ+ people exist? There's literally zero explanation for why LGBTQ+ inclusivity should not be taught in school other than literal h0m0ph0bia/transph0bia. There is nothing inherently sexual or inappr0priate about being qu33r, and kids already know about cishet gender and sexuality.
@@Lisa_Flowers I agree with you that there's nothing wrong with teaching kids gay people exist. But it's not appropriate to tell kids in kindergarten about gender identity and that they can change their gender. That's what I disagree because it's too young for kidd to even be thinking about that stuff.
Because that one time u mispronounce their pro nouns! Yo whole life could be ruined because they feel you’ve threatened their existence as a human being, Women’s sports, influence on kids, Bathrooms, women’s privacy need I go on?
@@davidlillecrapp2960 looks like your comment was removed by a filter. Look, if you don’t like us, you should leave. No one’s forcing you to stay and we want this environment to be peaceful.
@@reivioli2604 taking out “music” and “theatre” from the word “musical theatre,” symbolizing how all substance and meaning has been removed from the art by these goobers
And then the "horror" is just these clowns desperately running from gay family members who are trying to help them understand and accept them as they are. Then they, the homophobes, die bitter and alone because they were garbage to their loved ones. ~fin~
Why do I feel like this "movement" literally just consists of this man and a few of his family members who meet every week in his basement to crap on LGBT people. Like this can't be real its so bad
This is what baffles me the most about homophobes: how can you hate something and at the same time want to talk about it constantly? I have literally never met someone talking about gay sex more than homophobic people. Not even gays.
Maybe they just want to make their family great again by spending time together. Unfortunately, they only thing they have in common is hating on lgbt people.
When someone sends me transphobic abuse I come here and you give me my strength back.. Even though I hold my own and wipe the floor with them (bringing up valid points that have everything to do with the topic without insulting and reverting to easy point scoring tactics) I still feel it in my soul So thank you so much hun you make my soul smile
As a cis, straight, white, ordinary and privileged person i want to take this opportunity and say that i do not want to ever be associated with people like that. I prefer kindness and teaching our children that they will be loved no matter who they are. I do not understand why these people are so hateful, like what does it change if other people can love whoever they want to and be themselves without getting treated as criminals. If you took the moment to read this, then i just want to let you know that you are valid and loved however you are. Be yourself 🏳️🌈!
Thanks! I started transition yesterday. I called my mom and took my first dose with her because she’s an amazing person. I wanted to write this because your words reminded me of her. Keep being awesome, friend
The main problem with this is that the assume that people have "default settings" and anything that deviates from that is wrong. The default settings being white cis straight and male. Women are barely tolerated, but they need them so 🤷
It's especially ironic as female would be the "default" sex if there was such a thing. The infamous y chromosome is just a messed up x chromosome. You can only tell the sex of a fetus later on in the pregnancy because all fetuses start to develop as female but some deviate and become male. It's why the world population is approximately 51% female.
@@issakelly8071 Well, it is a bit more complicated than that, to be fair. For one thing, there are more than one gene marker for sex. That's how some children are born as a boy while having XX chromosomes. Sometimes a gene for male sex gets attached to an X chromosome. Some XY children have androgen insensitivity syndrome, which means they never develop a male body. So, considering how complex the whole thing is, it is fully possible that transgender is a form of intersex. Just one we haven't grasped yet. Especially since the brain and the reproductive organs have different developmental stages.
The best part of this is the man’s half tucked shirt, and generally unkempt appearance. It really sets the quality standard for this “advert” Also, SpaceX isn’t a government run program, NASA just has a contract with them, so the whole “the government is doing this amazing thing, and we’re following in their footsteps!” Stuff is bonkers.
Came to the comment section to distract myself while the phobes were chanting, and these comments are all so great! Jamie's and his community's commentary make this ad's existence worth it
"Why does it sound like a bunch of Cis Straight White People trying to sound oppressed?" BECAUSE IT IS. It is a WHOLE thing with this type. This is a KEY example of Christofascism/Christian Nationalism. A giant persecution complex is a huge part of evangelical culture. Being persecuted for your beliefs is validation that you are correct. As a result, they NEED to see oppression because it's not there, and they can't acknowledge oppression of people that are not them. That oppression is just them getting what they deserve for not following God's will. This is absolutely 100% real, and there are a not insignificant number of people in US government who fully believe this (Sam Alito being the most recent obvious example), and it is TERRIFYING.
I don't understand why people think being Christian means they have to hate all LGBTQ+ people, or that LGBTQ+ people can't be Christian. You would think that rejecting people because of the way they were made by God goes against their faith. Plus, the part in the Bible that basically says "Gay people are bad" was added in the 1950s, so it isn't even in the original version. I myself am a queer Christian, and I hate when people use Christianity as an excuse for their horrible opinions.
@@kathlei7473 I am so sorry that happened to you. That's horrible. And to clarify, I wasn't opposing the original commenter. I was calling out Christians that use their faith to justify being trash people. I hope you're in a better and safer place today, and are able to be who you are!
@@grell5108 I assume the people who don't want a Drag Queen in their family are the sort who know they'll be out performed in every category and hate loosing the spotlight 😂
@@grell5108my cousin dresses in that style. I dunno if they’d call themselves a drag queen, but at the end of the day, they’re fabulous! I’m so proud of them
I just got the worst transphobic advert before this video that was saying that cis girl’s privacy was being violated because fans girls want to change in their correct locker room. I went and reported it. I’m so done with these!
He really has to watch some rubbish for us doesn’t he? You can see how much it takes out of him every time he struggles to process what these dumb people are saying.............someone with a PhD shouldn’t have to do this really. It’s a mad world 🌍
This was physically painful to watch. As an lgbtq living in Texas, I really feel like this is was done unironically, and I bet they were very happy with this video. I've been forced to watch videos very similar to this growing up, usually through various churches. The only thing that seems to have changed with time is the better camera quality.
I can so relate as a gay man who grew up going to church in Texas. it's scary listening to people talk about how they want Christianity to take over the government
So, the transgender bathroom thing: My school did what I think he's referring to. The trans and nonbinary communities at my school campaigned to get unisex bathrooms in every building on campus, so that people who feel awkward about using the normal public bathrooms, either because of dysphoria or worries about bullying, can just use a generic bathroom.
That’s awesome! I have an enby friend in my school who feels really uncomfortable using either men’s or women’s bathrooms, so I hope my school does this too. I’m in India though so probably not happening anytime soon :(
When I was young in my area (in Italy) there were lots of unisex bathrooms especially in places with children around so that both parents could take their kids to the bathroom no matter what their gender was... And now that they are associated with non-binary people they are getting removed. Because people are panicking that they have created something more useful than what they originally thought. It would be insanely funny if it wasn't sad.
I just sat through the entire ad waiting for them to list at least one thing they were trying to accomplish on the last day of june and I never found out what their goals actually were other than to "make the family great again" with no examples of what that means at all
"We've got the right to disassociate!" That line killed me. Okay, sure, disassociate all you like, I see you're already doing that and hitting it out of the park.
I liked the bit about getting rid of Drag Queen Hour. Is it like Happy hour, but discount drag queen shows? And what about the Drag Kings? Also, I need to find the places with Drag Hours in my town! :D
If there were mandatory Drag Queen hours in a state that would be the most popular state, partially because it’s a bizarre law to enforce, partially for the reputation, and partially because the drag queen scene would be very good there both as a way for renowned drag queens to have fun and for new drag queens to establish themselves.
Hey Jamie! Thought I could give you some of my own good news among all this... sheneganry. I got accepted into the gender queer housing community for the uni I'm going to in the fall! I'm really excited cause I've only recently been getting into the queer community in my area, and I'm looking to get involved, and you've given me a lot of confidence in that! Anyways, much love, bye!
Oh, so the cishets just admitted that their ways are just a lifestyle and not something that’s beyond their control? That means there’s still hope for them! I believe in you, guys! You can still trans your gender or gayify your life! Be strong! 🤣
You would think that with how against they are with even saying “straight” or “cisgender” they would avoid “lifestyle” since it implies that there are multiple lifestyles like the homosexual/bisexual/asexual lifestyles, instead of the only lifestyle.
Look, as a cishet woman conservatives have been warning me for AGES that hanging out with people in the lgbtq+ community would turn me gay and I AM STILL WAITING. 😭
I have no doubt they were sincerely trying to be anti-lgbtq+, but for a moment, I thought they were making a parody of homophobes. A deeply confusing performance, and I don't feel that threatened by them. Was this something the man talking came up with on his own, and asked his family to come with him to perform? This is in my top 10 dumbest things I've ever watched now.
Modern satire suffers a very distinct problem: the difference between satire and sincerity is very blurry and thin, it's easily crossed, and unless you reinforce the line, the worst people will assume you're on their side when you're supposedly mocking them.
This rings as earnest for me. This is exactly as unhinged as I've seen in the US. "Attacking Christians" is code for "doesn't allow theocracy," and unfortunately it works excellently on their intended audience (authoritarian Christians). It's easier to watch with someone who sees it as simply baffling, bumbling, and poorly executed. Being inside the context of US culture and having grown up with one foot in the Religious Right movement (I got out, thankfully, but my family did not), it can be incredibly difficult to stomach. They want us dead but are too genteel to say it, so they produce things like this. Then cis/het Americans who are used to the background noise say, "oh just ignore them. they're harmless!" The continuous assault on the rights we've been able to get suggests otherwise.
Some positive news: the high school I'm going to is currently building gender neutral bathrooms, which makes my nonbinary self very happy!! My school district has done an amazing job these past couple of years in becoming more open and welcoming for LGBTQ kids :)
I wish there were gender neutral bathrooms at my school outside of the one in the main office. I know there's at least two nonbinary people (and absolute homies) at my school
Wow that's awesome! My school recently put up a progress pride flag in the hallway! Let's hope nobody tears it down 🤞 Update: the pride flag is no longer in the hallway, it's now on the flagpole outside!!!! Update on the update: it is no long just on the flagpole, ITS IN THE HALLWAY AND ON THE FLAGPOLE
Because Q is for question, and Gd forbid someone questions anything... 🤦 Then their whole 🐂💩 would be exposed for what it is... Wow, I'm cranky tonight...
I love how their comparing a literal scientific landmark to the publication of a ton of homophobes ideas of a movement, like man’s that’s not *fighting* for anything like lgbt events are usually fighting for rights you’re just…. Pissed that not everything’s about you.
This feels like the dad got a "great" idea, the mom is reluctant to tag along (aka keeps looking at him like he's lost his mind), and the three kids want to be anywhere but there and have tried their hardest to stay out of sight😂
You can tell the four in the back wanted nothing to do with this. They hid their faces and the boy just left in the end. I bet he made those edits to troll and I'm so here for it.
I love that he had to look at his script to remember the acronym. *looks at paper “give me an L” *looks at paper “give me an M” *looks at paper “give me an N” 🤦♀️
Yeah, the entire time I'm sitting here thinking "Bro, you literally made it a series of letters from the alphabet in order, how tf do you not remember it? Did you never hear of this group before making this? Did you even so much as read the script before recording it?"
My 'favourite' part of that is imagining that the reason they had to edit the responses in afterwards was because none of the people with him had bits of paper to remind them, so they all just stood there in an awkward, terminal silence.
I think they kept repeating the 'LMNOP' bit bc even they were forgetting what it stood for so they had to repeat it like 2 times in a row XD Also at 10:25 does he think the governors are gonna care what 'grade' he gives them? This isn't like secondary school XD
The guy on the right kept giving me "the 2 other people in the front are my parents and they dragged me out here to do this because I still live with them" vibes.
10:52 I just have to mark this moment. Anytime internalised homophobia pops up I can watch this and feel so much better. Cause at least I’m not like this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭
What really has me chuckling is that my husband & I use "LMNOP" as code for going to the toilet. As in, "I'll be right back. I gotta LMNOP." Apropos, I must say... 😂🤣
I laughed so hard watching this, I don't think it matters if it's a parody - treat it like one, and it becomes a meme. LMNOP+ movement??? Why didn't they call it "taking back the alphabet"??? Fucking hell.
@@linden5165 It’s a plus sign to add the ‘normal’ synonyms that they forgot: Regular, run-of-the-mil, typical, traditional, general, average, usual, customary, commonplace & unnoteworthy. Or math like the other answer says. Idk.
3:45 “This is really boring and poorly edited” Well yeah, they’re the Leauge of Mainstream *Normal Ordinary* People, they’re not allowed to be good at anything otherwise they risk being more than ordinary! Can’t risk that! Jokes aside, I’ll be sticking with the LGBTQ+ where they have good extraordinary editing, thanks.
Not to mention we have actual style. We don’t wear clothes that make us look like a 60 year old racist that would yell the N word on the street corner to “prove a point”
im almost impressed by how many people they think will join them in this, how many buttons and banners did they make? 50 for each state? 100? 1,000? What will they do with the left overs, will they sit in a warehouse surrounded by banners and buttons, or are they being made to order?
That LMNOP thing has to be satire. If it is then it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. They nailed it perfectly: the bad audio, the bad quality, the jump cuts, the sound add ins post script. I’m fucking crying it’s so goddamn funny if it’s satire
"The right to disassociate with drag queens." As far as I know, we've not yet won that right. Even though you can hang out with drag queens freely, I'm pretty sure you'll get arrested for doing ketamine with them.
what if you disassociate in a legal way? sort of like how cannibalism is legal, but murder and graverobbing aren't. i understand that i cant do ketamine to disassociate with drag queens, but what about getting drunk, or sensory overload?
"Mainstream, Normal, Ordinary" uh yeah dude cool...but I don't think many people like being called basic. Jamie's expressions in this entire thing was just amusing though
Anytime an organization's ideology involves identifying what is "normal" I am immediately suspicious. A lot of hateful ideology has been spread in the name of "normal"
Anyone else get the impression that the people were paid like 5 to 10 quid to do that so they were like 'sure I'll do it but I'm not putting much effort in' ?
Genuinely, thank you for reacting to this. It's good to be able to watch the video without rewarding the original group, and doing it with you and your community makes me feel like I have someone with me when I watch. It's very reassuring.
So like, hypothetically, would just parking myself nearby something like this with a lawn chair and a boombox and blasting circus music at just below public disturbance volumes count as a counter-protest?
4:41 The one with the umbrella on the right... Covers their face with their hand too. And then looks around as if they're embarrassed to be there. Absolutely exquisite.
See I kind of agree that homophobia/transphobia is like space missions, in that we should be working as hard as possible to get both those things off this planet as fast as possible
My dad once met a girl whose name was Ellem N. Oppy. She was running away from home (back in...2001 or 02) because she was a lesbian and she was CONVINCED her father would try to kill her if he figured it out. I bet the man running this 'rally" was her father. LMNOP? Ellem N. Oppy?
@@sapphomapping5084 it was almost 30 years ago. Unless he actually actually committed murder, the statue of limitations means there's nothing, no matter how awful the abuse she probably suffered was
Fun fact: Because bathrooms are not born with a sex or gender assigned to him, any bathroom which identifies with a gender at all, say a "women's bathroom" or a "men's bathroom" by definition identifies with a gender different from that assigned at birth and is thus a trans bathroom.
Does anyone else who was raised Christian remember being told as a young child that you should be willing to die for Christianity. I remember being told that if a person was pointing a gun at me and told me that they would shoot me if I was Christian, I shouldn't even try to lie in order to live. I should just say I'm a Christian because it's more acceptable to die than renounce God. I wasn't even 10 when I was told this.
Oh, of course I remember that. I was raised Traditional Catholic, so got lots of extremism. You know, regular Catholics aren't even good enough for them!
@@krimsonkatt this also makes the "next world" (which may or may not be there) look so appealing compared to this life, that suicide starts looking like a good idea. For the answer "oh well, if you kill yourself that's a sin and you'll go straight to hell," there's this response: since someone killing themselves is a sign of mental illness, they can't be blamed for sinning, and thus they can still reach heaven. Anyway. Glad you like your religion and don't fear death. It's not good for everyone
@@krimsonkatt see, that's a very mature outlook on it, but as a kid, I didn't have that maturity to see that. I just registered it as "I would prefer you, someone who I love and whose life should mean everything to me, to die than say you're not Christian. Your life is less important than the integrity of your belief in God." I even specifically asked about the fact that I would still be just as Christian as before, I would have just saved my life. However, they said that it was better that I willing let myself get killed for truthfully answering a question than lie and save my life. Nothing about me or my faith would have changed except for that one lie I said out self preservation. And yet, my life was not worth saying a single simple lie
@@solarcupid2583 I’m an atheist so maybe I’m misremembering things, but isn’t a part of the Easter section of the Bible about how one of the Disciples (John or Peter I think?) would disavow any connection to Jesus (something like he’d do it three times before the cock crowed the next morning? Implicitly to save his own skin when Jesus got arrested), and that Jesus knew ahead of time he’d do so and told him that it was okay? Sounds like Jesus himself was essentially saying that it’s okay to lie about being one of his followers to save yourself so long as you remain true in your heart/afterwards.
