Santy get a boyfriend...

Obviously you'll be taking the kids and grandkids to see it.

Its an ad

Children see adults kissing all the time. The "sexualising a special figure" is just pure drivel and nonsene. If you really believed that you'd want to ban all parents kissing each other in front of their children. There are lots of examples of Santa being a lot more sexual than this. A tiny minority of people are shocked at this.

The dramatics of this being compared to a grenade are frankly laughable.

And then you talk about "the real world" - Again laughable nonsense. We are discussing a fictional figure.

Lots of people outraged over nothing really.

No one uses terms like “pushing this on”, “exposing“, “sexualisation” and “agenda” when talking about seeing a heterosexual couple do something as innocuous as kiss. No one would be concerned in the slightest about children seeing it.

Some people just can’t let go of seeing homosexuality as a threat, something sinister, a deviancy. Something that will somehow rob children of their “innocence” - implying both that it’s exposing children to something taboo and that it’s an act one can be guilty of: a crime of sorts - maybe not a legal one, but perhaps one against nature. Something that’s ok for “consenting adults in the privacy of their own bedroom” - as if the consent part needs to be emphasised, the privacy part needs to be imposed. They might be tolerant - the minimum requirement for allowing something to exist at all - but they’re certainly not accepting. It’s ironic, because invariably these are the ones who often claim that homophobia doesn’t exist in society, because gay people are “allowed” to marry.

Fortunately, this is probably the last generation that will harbour these outdated and outmoded notions.

1. Santa Claus is not a religious figure. At best Saint Nicholas would be, but nobody really looks at Santa for a religious aspect. He's a magic man who brings presents as far as kids are concerned.
2. George Floyd was a real man, like an actual person, who was murdered by the cops and it is certainly not a religious figure.
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This advertisement isn’t the least bit sexual, it’s more sentimental than anything, which plenty of advertising is around Christmas. It’s not as though the actors are actually frenchying or anything, so calling it sexual or making out that “they’re portraying Santa as gay now” is nothing more than contrived annoyance at the whole idea of anything different - a modern take on a classic theme, blowing it way out of proportion.

I could take it or leave it tbh, I thought their previous advertisements were better, because they were different too, but they were funny, this one is just meh.

It could be set in the North Pole. Dr. Ho.

when do we tell the above poster that there's already a black santa, an Asian santa etc.

Plenty of gay James Bond fan fiction out there already. Fill yer boots:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=✓&work_search%5Bquery%5D=Gay+James+bond+

You opined that a trans santa or a santa with cancer might be next.

the tone of your post suggests that you feel that would be a bad thing.

just pointing out that theres not only a straight, white santa out there.