Cavs show insane hype video of man chucking woman to the ground (1 Viewer)

[Gawain]

Spinoff on a Chicago area commercial involving United Health.

Right, the one where they fall into the table because the two people were on the large size. It was just plain bad, but I am not sure I would say it glorifies domestic violence. I think it was supposed to be more of a drop, but the foam stuff she fell into was over the couch, so he had to throw her a little bit. As sheik said, sort of funny people would get upset at this when there are far more egregious examples of real violence being glorified versus a sort of comedic spin on that United Health ad. Maybe a bit in poor taste but I honestly don't think that the people who made the "bad" ad were thinking that the guy beats his wife into liking the Cavs versus dropping her because of the Bulls shirt instead of doing a Swayze twirl.

Nobody thinks it was some horrible, deliberate pro-domestic violence message. We're just laughing at the fact that it's tone-deaf and its crazy that it slipped through what you'd think would be several layers of review.

As for Sheik's ridiculous point- even if you set aside the fact that hip hop really doesn't glorify domestic violence, certainly not any more than other forms of music, it's still a silly thing to say because it ignores the basic notion of context. There's hundreds of topics in music lyrics (sex, drugs, political/social issues, etc.) that we'd all agree would be poor fodder for an in-game video hype clip.

And who can forget the classic 50 Ways to Beat your Lover?

Hit her with a stick Rick, Use a frying pan, Stan and set yourself free.

 

[EYLive]

If he had turned that lift into an RKO, it'd be the greatest thing ever.

 

[Gustavo Fring]

Too bad this didn't have a campaign type ending, like..."I'm Roger Goodell, and I approve of this message"

 

[sublimeone]

Despicable. Excuse me now, while I go back and listen to some hip hop music.

Congratulations on your successful transformation into everyone's grumpy uncle who posts ridiculous comments on Facebook.

Umm... what?

My response was that I find it funny that people are so outraged about this because it's about domestic violence, yet they will listen to hip hop music that glorifies domestic violence.

And my response is that this is exactly the sort of ridiculous non-sequitur comment that someone's grumpy uncle who doesn't actually listen to hip-hop music would make on Facebook.

how tall are you?

 

[Capella]

I love the fake outrage over people displaying fake outrage over this.

 

[Jack White]

I thought the video was funny. Are we allowed to have a little sense of humor these days?

Yeah, this is pretty mild and clearly intended to be a silly joke, not an endorsement of battery against women.

 

[EYLive]

Don't blame the guy, blame gravity.

 

[General Tso]

Nobody puts Baby through a coffee table.

 

[Insein]

INSANE!!!!!!!

What?