Many of you have probably been too busy with real news such as the Haiti quake, The State of the Union address and the Grammys to pay attention to the beef brewing between CBS and the Gay dating site ManCrunch. But I suspect lots of you out there know exactly what were talking about.
You know the story: Gay dating site ManTech produces the Super Bowl ad above; CBS says no-way and bans it from showing on air — yet at the same time accepts an ad from the pro-life/anti-gay group Focus on the Family touting the decision by pro-baller Tim Tebow’s mother not to have an abortion.
Frankly folks — we’d grown a bit tired of this whole affair. What with the endless and breathless reporting by all of the major Gay and mainstream sites.
The Gays lamented the double-standard of it all — denouncing CBS for running one ad by homo-phobes, yet banning another ad that shows two dudes kissing.
Well, it appears as if this story is about to get — finally! — a whole lot more interesting. Our smart friend Lyndon Evans clearly had a light work load this week because he did some serious digging about the ManCrunch people. Turns out the site — if you can call it that — is really a sham-tastic hype machine for none other than one Simone Dadoun-Cohen (we’ll call her SDC).
So who is SDC? She’s the skanky Canadian former stripper and the brains behind trashy hetero dating sites such as ArrangementSeekers, Cougarife and Established Men.
Indeed, as Evans confirmed via a quick flick through the site’s “press contact” info, Mancrunch has the exact same media contact details as all of those others hetero sites.
Same Toronto area code — same Toronto number.
While were not sure if Mancrunch is a pure Gay dating site “front” — we suspect very few dudes have actually hooked up using it!
Indeed, it seems fair to say that while all of the sucker Gay bloggers have been whining about this evilness of CBS denying the spot — while Queerty even goes as far as to use the case as an example of the sadness of the Gay community starved for media attention — it appears as if the ad was not even made by a Gay company. And that the site kinda/maybe does not even exist.
As Evans notes, the entire affair was just another ploy by the sexy SDC to get attention for her naughty media efforts — and manipulate gay anger in the process. She appears to have succeeded.
I am sure we’ll be hearing lots more about SDC!
I aint mad at her! I just wish I came up with her little ploy. She got loads of PR and played the victim machine like a cello!
Tee.
Hee.