Has anyone out there seen this PSA from actress Katherine Heigl who is launching the “I hate balls” campaign to encourage people to neuter their pets. The campaign also has a website where one can donate $5.00 by texting the word “snip” to a phone number. The PSA is described at the Daily News as follows:
The PSA delivers a humorous take on a very serious issue and features one of Heigl’s furry friends, as well as a brief cameo by her husband, musician Josh Kelley.
“Unfortunately I can’t cut the nuts off human men — yet,” Heigl, 33, quips in the video. “So I’ve dedicated my time to the neutering of dogs because that’s legal.”
The animal-loving actress said she hopes the PSA’s unconventional approach will help spread the message about spaying and neutering.
“Launching this campaign is hopefully the type of out-of-the-box thinking we need to heighten awareness of the devastating problem, and sound the alarm that we can save many lives by simply spaying/neutering pets. Hate balls, fix pets, save lives. It’s just that simple,” she said in a statement.
Why does this campaign support misandry to make a point about neutering pets? The actress does a little laugh in the commercial, telling people she is not serious, but frankly, the only people who would find this funny are man-hating women and the Uncle Tims who support them (of which there are many) like her already neutered husband who is in the PSA retrieving what are left of his balls for the night. Now, that looks pretty appropriate. I would say that, like the neutered dog on Heigl’s lap, she keeps her husband on a pretty short leash.
What do you think of the PSA? Is it funny, irrelevant or just plain misandric, or something else?
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I’d get upset about it if she actually spent any time with men who had balls to start with.
Intended to be funny, but fails miserably. Just imagine if it had been her husband talking about ovaries.
Hateful, bigoted…but do we expect anything else from a liberal female animal-rights freak these days?
My wife actually complains about this. There’s almost a genre of commercials that could collectively be called “stupid dad.” In all of them, the subject of the ridicule is a middle-aged white guy who’s shown to be clueless to the point of being unable to brush his own teeth. Teenaged daughters are especially adept at letting Dad know what a dipstick he is, in terms of understanding things. Cutting off men’s balls is just an extension of this, especially when the cutesy and inoffensive Ms. Heigl is putting forward the idea. No one can accuse you of sexism, racism, or any other -ism that’s objectionable, because men have all the power, and deserve to be insulted repeatedly. Or so I hear…
It’s not just commercials. There used to be an entire genre of sitcoms based on “stupid, clueless Dad”, with some witch-with-a-B sniping away at him much to her children’s and neighbors’ delignt.
It’s apalling. First women insisted on emulating everything that’s wrong with men in order to feel equal to them, now they insist on destroying everything that’s good about them in order to feel superior to them.
And they still can’t figure out why they’re all alone and single in their 40s and 50s.
Here’s a great antidote to those stupid commercials and shows: A dad who won’t put up with the crap from his smartaleck daughter anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU&feature=youtu.be
And yes, someone’s called the cops on him. He said they congratulated him: http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/youtube-dad-who-shot-daughters-laptop-gets-visit-a/nHbcR/
I love this guy!
Don’t forget that subcategory of chick flick in which, for some unfathomable reason, a rich, handsome, successful alpha male finds a nasty, castrating shrew of a leading lady irresistably attractive. My theory is these sorts of movies are made to sustain faith in the millions of females in places like San Francisco and Georgetown who imagine they’re just one apoplectic snit away from finding Mr. Right.
Nora, quoted for truth
It’s apalling. First women insisted on emulating everything that’s wrong with men in order to feel equal to them, now they insist on destroying everything that’s good about them in order to feel superior to them.
And they still can’t figure out why they’re all alone and single in their 40s and 50s.
This is depraved as well as inaccurate. It is also carries a not too subtle message of cruelty to animals. As most adult animal lovers know, a professionally executed neutering operation is conducted under general anesthesia and is completely painless to the animal, and it certainly does not result in anything being “cut off.”
So now we have this monumentally stupid woman demonstrating something new, as if enough cruelty weren’t already being perpetrated by children and the mentally unstable against defenseless creatures every day. (And does she really think that the castrati population she clearly endorses and moves among, exemplified by the jerk she’s appearing with, actually find her bulging boobs and mawkish posturing in any way erotic?)
I am heartsick that anyone would lend his or her energy, celebrity, or influence to such an abominable piece of trash. As the mass desensitization of our culture gathers ever greater momentum, one can only pray, God help us all.
Sorry to be glib, but can you “save lives” of animals that aren’t even born to begin with?
Like most such things, I say apply the Inversion Test and see who shrieks like a banshee.
So then:
“Unfortunately I can’t cut the wombs out of human women — yet,” William Frick, of the HHC, quips in the video. “So I’ve dedicated my time to the spaying of dogs because that’s legal.”
Would any women find that offensive and misogynistic?
I certainly find it repulsive in the extreme, but I’m biased and all that.
“Unfortunately I can’t cut the wombs out of human women — yet,”
But liberal women would appreciate the sentiment making birth control a non issue. They’d prefer to be men but just don’t have the balls. Of course then they’d just want to castrate themselves.
Have Dr. Kermit Gosnell do the PSA on spaying women. I doubt that the Beautiful People would be lining up to endorse or defend it. Or an actress portraying Margaret Sanger. laughs all around.
That was sick and disgusting. There was nothing cute or funny about it.
I have an intact male dog. Her PSA makes it certain that I’ll keep it that way.
Typical screwed-up liberal. She hates the testicles in spite of her addiction to the sperm that issueth forth from them.
Like liberals that resent practical power sources but crave the benefits of modern technology.
ugh, lighten up… the video is a joke. Have a sense of humor.
Yeah – reminds me of a cartoon I saw in the old “National Lampoon” years ago. One dog is talking to another dog: “My people love me. They’ll do anything for me – they cut my balls off! Relax – it’s just a joke.
How fortunate, then, that I was able to have the female cats I’ve rescued from the local Humane Society spayed. They aren’t nearly as noisy and obnoxious afterwards.
Perhaps we should try a different test, viz:
If Betty White did this PSA, would it be funny?
I bet it would.
How is what Katherine Heigl wants to do to men….
….any worse than the clitoral mutilation done to women in Islamic countries?
I don’t think modern Western society can claim to be less barbaric than Islam, when you have tons of women actually praising Katherine Heigl’s castrative bloodlust.
My opposition to Islam invading the West has gone down a lot. For men, it wouldn’t be a net negative.
Well, you certainly killed that strawman. So if somewhere, some one does worse, this gets a pass.
Misogyny is imaginary. Misandry is real.
For every men who is truly a misogynist, there are 10,000 men who will jump to beat him down.
For every woman like Katherine Heigl, there are a tiny few like Dr. Helen who will even condemn her misandry. Most women agree with her.
Misogyny is imaginary. Misandry is real.
Has she ever seen it done? I’ve seen it done to a horse and it was horrible, for the horse and for me as a witness. Neutering is amputation (castration) done with a knife on an unwilling subject, without the benefit of anesthesia.
I’m ashamed that I had it done to a dog. It had no affect on his unwanted behavior (pissing everywhere) and was thus pointless mutilation. If you want to prevent animal reproduction, have a female’s tubes tied. That’ll prevent pregnancy, without (I hope) messing up their brains by removing essential hormones.
Dogs ain’t people, but they think they’re part of our pack. And they’re right.
Ms. Heigl self identifies as a tool. End of story. Pointing out leftist hypocracy actually validates political correctness. If we’re going to free the culture, first we have to free our minds from PC.
I have 5 dogs, all male and all neutered. I’ve fixed them because I love each of them and because it’s my responsibility.
Misandry has no place in the movement to make a better life for the animals that G-d has charged us to care for.
Thank you.
Appalling.
Sam, that is a useful trick — with an appalling result. Your version sounds like a serial killer. Hers should, too.
I was thinking of attributing it to Springheel Jack, but I thought I’d go with someone worse than a serial killer.
I did Anglicize his name from Wilhelm though.
I didn’t see any reason to be “fair” with something that utterly stupid.
I’ll keep this simple so even harpies, hags and nags from the left can understand its meaning.
Some man hating shrew makes an attempt to grab my gonads, and they will find their buck teeth sticking out the back of their occipital.
HAW HAW HAW! How’s that grab you Ms. Heigel?
I’ll use your back of your head as a pooper scooper afterwards for good measure.
Our beloved yellow lab Norman died last year. He was our first male dog, and remarkable. My next dog will be a male and will keep his balls, regardless (or perhaps because) of idiocy like Heigl’s–and to make liberals squirm.
I can hear them now. “Oh, my! What are those things between his legs?!”
Imagine if it was someone saying:
“I can’t do female circumcision in the US so I have female dogs spaded as the next best thing.”
What do you think might be the reaction?
Funny or Die is a comedy site. I wouldn’t take anything under their banner seriously. I’m pretty sure I could find examples of misogyny in their catalog, too. This is just a poorly-written comedy bit, I wouldn’t read too much politics into it.
Edgy, courageous, path-breaking activist art, brought to you by our moral superiors, the people who view Roman Polanski as a martyr.
My balls hate Katherine Heigl too.
Mine like her, but they operate strictly at a visual level and can’t always be answerable to the brain that supposedly controls them.
Sometimes people tell jokes that flop. Let it go.
Let it go especially if she does a nude scene (strictly for art’s sake, of course).
A female and fairly liberal vet friend of mine once got on stage at a costume contest and said “I think I can get at least some votes in the audience by noting that I have an emasculator in my truck!”
I was tempted to say, “Really? Who is she?”
If the commercial was reversed to show a guy hating ovaries and all things associated with them, I’m sure the very people loving this video would be screaming for blood.
I’m havng a hard time seeing how a pro-tubal-ligation video could be done in a funny way like this one. Part of it is simple biology: testicles are a little more, uh, accessible. And we men joke about them far more than women joke about ovaries, so the joke pump is primed.
But if they pulled it off, kudos to them I’d say. Even if I didn’t find it funny, at least I’d see it as an attempt at HUMOR.
I’ll tell you what isn’t funny, it’s when the right adopts the left’s perpetual offense campaign.
Grow a pair, people!
It’s a “Funny or Die” video. Satire like The Onion only not as funny. Yes/No? Plus I believe the video is over a year old.
Hatred and bigotry never go out of fashion unfortunately. Sexual mutilation is just not funny, no matter how you slice it.
That pun is funny, because it more distant from the sexual mutilation.
The people responsible for this hatred should be investigates, castigated, and discarded into the dump with all the other bigots.
Trey
Taking All Bets!
I propose making the following statement:
“Unfortunately I can’t perform a backyard clitorectomy on human women — yet. So I’ve dedicated my time to the spaying of bitches because that’s legal.”
For which I will then take the following bets:
The over/under on total number of crimes for which arrest and/or extradition warrants as appropriate would be issued against me within 24 hours of making such statement in the same jurisdictions from which Ms. Heigl made hers (State of California) and in which it was initially published (Great Britain). Of extremely high relevance to the bet is the fact I am a politically- and culturally-conservative non-celebrity WASP male from the American South. The Vegas line is currently 11.
TEASER – Whether issuance within 48 hours of one or more of:
1) World Court arrest warrant for “clitoral genocide” and/or “gendercide”;
2) UN resolution of individual condemnation, plus WHO mandate of worldwide denial of family healthcare/medical benefits for a period of life-in-being plus 21 years, otherwise known as The Rule Against Perpetuities…Unless You’re A Male;
3) US Star Chamber Bill of Attainder, sought and issued by Obama Administration, authorizing intra- and extra-territorial assassination-by-drone, as well as post-mortem order of Corruption of Blood in Perpetuity.
Vegas line: 2-to-5 in favor of trifecta.
Bomus: discussion of likely charges.
Oops – thought Heigl’s statement was initially published in “Daily Mail”, not “Daily News”. But wth, NY or UK – same same. Let the wagering continue!
Ms. Heigl should be ashamed of herself, and so should the rest of our media establishment that plays along with this type of ugliness.
After viewing that little video of hers, I can see why Ms. Heigl’s career has stalled since she left “Grey’s Anatomy”. I’m willing to bet that within five years, her husband, Josh Kelley, will be absolutely stunned when she announces that the marriage is over and that she’s leaving. Ms. Heigl reminds me of the type of date where, after 20 minutes at a restaurant table with her, the guy is frantically signalling the waiter for the check.
People like Katherine Heigl and Sharon Osbourne make it much harder for us to claim that America is any better than Islamic nations that practice female clitoral mutilation.
In fact, it is done less often to women there, than we hear women in the West joking about doing it to men here.
America is not any better than Islam…. unless you think men are lesser beings than women.
I’m not sure how to parse this comment, the doing of the deed is much worse than joking about it, however much real venom is hidden behind the joke.
I think her talents are being wasted. Surely there’s room in the White House for another Czar — she could be the US Castration Czar, what the hell, the more the merrier.
There aren’t any up there to be found!
Apparently this Heigl person is someone I’m supposed to listen to. Wikipedia indicates she’s some sort of actress. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything she’s been in, which is just fine by me, because it leaves me more time to drown bags of cats and whip up a fresh puppy smoothie.
She is an actress – a person who is paid to pretend to be somebody. Nobody is paying me to care.
Misandry is just another kind of prejudice. If it weren’t this, it would be anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism or racism. Everyone, including people with no actual accomplishment to be proud of have to feel superior to someone. Even losers can’t stand losers. It’s a human failing. The cure is to be something positive. Graduate, be a blood donor, play a sport, volunteer, serve.
If you can’t do any of that, act. She is.
Well. Y’all need to lighten the heck up. Funny or Die clearly needs to make a sticks out of butts PSA to go along with this one! I can understand not thinking it’s funny but to take it seriously enough to be offended? That’s just screwed up.
“How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?”
“THAT’S NOT FUNNY!”
Relax, people. It’s a joke.
Signed,
A man who still has his balls
You seem to believe we’re all offended. Some may be. I wasn’t.
In fact, I was tickled at the thought of getting the opportunity to take the initiative of what I’ve always wanted to do to a few man, big mouthed, man hating shrews from the Left, if they are dumb enough to even give a moment’s thought to it.
Might even grab me some titty in return. Legal molestation. Where’s the love? We’ll see who has the better grip.
What’s good for the goose, right?
Grabbing for my nuts would be all the excuse I need.
I guess she’ll have to die because it wasn’t funny. Or is the name of the site a lie?
Incidentally, you know the worst thing about that joke at the end where Ms. Heigl’s husband asks for his balls while he goes out with the guys? It’s DECADES OLD. Sam Kinison did it. One of his earliest bits. Only in Sam’s case, his wife turns him down flat.
Tone-deaf to the level of that “exploding children” anti-global warming ad from a year or so ago. Abysmally stupid statement, probably indicative of an abysmally stupid person.
Too bad that someone hadn’t gotten to her father’s balls before her advent on the world.
Let’s all send pairs of balls to her…or rather, her publicist. Marbles, ping-pong, tennis, whatever suits your fancy.
Yea and I can’t cut the uteruses out of women so I am content to just spay female animals.
SOOO funnyyyy!
You could transplant this promo into Mad Magazine without changing a thing. That’s its own comment.