How Young Is Too Young to Be Flirting in a McDonald's Ad?

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Intolerance Week continues on AdFreak, as we turn to the Philippines, where McDonald's, under pressure from Catholic leaders, has agreed to pull a TV commercial because it shows a young boy and girl having an innocent romance and almost holding hands. In the ad, the girl asks the boy if she is his girlfriend, to which he replies: "I'm not ready. Girlfriends are demanding. They want this, they want that." Eventually he relents when she says she just wants french fries.

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