This week a few different
commercials stuck out at me. One in particular has been driving me crazy all
week so I think that this gives me the perfect excuse to talk about it! McDonald’s
has been airing a commercial supporting the Olympics in which they compare an
Olympic champion biting on their medal to celebrate their victory with average
Americans biting on chicken McNuggets to symbolize our country’s victories.
This is the absolute most ridiculous commercial I have seen in quite a long
time! These people are champions, who works effortlessly all year round to
prepare for this world-wide competition; people who sweat, break bones, and
sustain serious injuries, all to push themselves to be the best they can
possibly be. Please tell me how this is in any way, shape, or form like some
lazy person driving down to the McDonald’s Drive Thru to order a twenty piece
order of McNuggets? I understand that they were comparing the two because of
the “color” that the chicken nuggets are, but really? I think it’s insulting to
our Olympian athletes to compare a gold medal to a chicken nugget. (Sorry but
this has been severely bothering me all week.) This commercial really didn’t
make any sense to me, which is why it’s really stuck in my head & it’s been
the topic for a few different rants. I paid more attention to this
advertisement because I think that it really degrades what it means to win an
Olympic medal. I think that this is one form of how perceptions vary throughout
our society. I thought the McDonalds Olympic commercial was enraging. Others
may have thought of it as a good way to celebrate our Olympic champions in a
way similar to theirs after a win. Others may ignore the commercial entirely. This
commercial was McDonald’s attempting to create their own “Olympic symbol,”
which is subject to different people’s perceptions of what an acceptable symbol
is. I didn’t find it to be an acceptable symbol; however someone else might
believe that this symbol is a great idea. I think that our varying perspectives
really do impact what we take away from different situations & this was a
great example of that in my mind.
