Fox anchor freaks out over “woke” M&M's
Harris Faulkner: “Why, if you really want to empower women, would you depict us as people who can't even stand up straight and put us upside down on the packaging?”
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Citation From the January 9, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): Well, I know you were eating M&M's before the commercial break. Let's talk. Women M&M's. M&M's. The company has just launched an all-female pack to celebrate female empowerment. It features the company's three female mascots, green, brown, and the newly introduced purple. They don't even have names. Why are we upside down, portrayed as women on that package?
PETE HEGSETH (FOX NEWS HOST): I don't know. It's a great question, Harris. I don't know. Apparently there's new lesbian characters, it's female empowerment. I just didn't know that when I was eating like an orange right now, is this orange a man or woman? I don't know. Is this blue? Is it non-binary, is it Democratic? I don't know, it's blue. I don't know. Is green maybe — they are all great. Is green a little bit more environmentally friendly? I've never really thought about it before I put it in my mouth. But I bought this M&M packet for my wife in her stocking and it turns out it's got a lot of political connections, too. Men and women like them, it turns out.
FAULKNER: We have to bring in Santa Claus and any of us who are, you know, loving just the candy for the flavor of the candy. I do legitimately ask, though: Why, if you really want to empower women, would you depict us as people who can't even stand up straight and put us upside down on the packaging?
HEGSETH: Good point, good point. Virtue signaling gone wrong.