Boycotting can be a very powerful weapon in a free market economy. Voting with your feet — and your wallet — by refusing to pay for a company’s goods or services has long been a persuasive tool of citizens in capitalist societies. Consumers have boycotted businesses for everything from political views held by the company’s CEO, to where a company manufactures its products, to the corporation’s policies towards its employees or its patrons.
It seems as though liberals have mastered the art of boycotting over the last decade or so. Many liberals boycotted fast food chain, Chick-fil-A in response to the CEO’s personal and religious beliefs in traditional marriage. A number of liberals even showed up at Chick-fil-A restaurants to harass young workers — who have nothing to do with the CEO’s personal views — and film the teenagers as they yell at them. Liberals have also boycotted businesses like Hobby Lobby, Walmart, Marriott, Carl’s Jr., Exxon, Urban Outfitters, and others for various reasons.
Conservatives are a bit harder to offend, and boycott less. But when they do, they do so with conviction. After North Carolina and Mississippi recently passed laws requiring men to use men’s restrooms, liberals threatened boycotts of the two states entirely. Conservatives have struck back. After Target waded into the controversy by announcing that men would now be allowed to use women’s restrooms and changing rooms, social media exploded with the hashtag #BoycottTarget and have gotten hundreds of thousands of signatures of those pledging to do so. To read about the uproar and watch an undercover video of a man asking to use the women’s restroom at a Target, continue on the next page:
Pardon me, but may I please respectfully share my perspective on this matter? I had a friend (now deceased) who was born an hermaphrodite in the 1950’s. “Her” parents were military and back in those days the recommended way to “fix” such a “freak of nature” (as it was called) was to remove the penis and “make the baby a girl”- only because that was the easiest surgery. So, “her” penis was removed and “her” vaginal opening was left. “She” was raised a female. The doctors assured “her” parents that “she” would never even know-if they would just not talk about it. BUT “she” said she always “felt” like a boy and even as a child when playing with baby dolls “she” envisioned “herself” as growing up to be a hubby and daddy. The family was a close knit, upright, strong Christian family, and fortunately (even though it was considered very shameful to have certain urges) when “she” was a teenager and found herself romantically attracted to the girly girls (not the self-proclaimed lesbians) “she” shared this with “her” parents. They (wisely) DID sit “her” (and then “her” siblings) down and explained to all of them about “her” MEDICAL history. By the time “she” was a bit older and DNA testing had been perfected studies showed that genetically “she” was, in fact, a “he”! Further studies even revealed “she” had small testes that remained in “her” abdomen (along with the small ovaries). So, “she” was left with these options: 1) having the testes removed and “remaining a female” (which “she” never REALLY was)
2) leaving the testes and taking supplemental female hormones so “she” would be “more feminine and the urges to be/act like a male would be reduced” or 3) living life as a “transgender” and/or having a “sex change” operation (which REALLY wouldn’t have been CHANGING “her” sex, but re-establishing it, in my humble opinion). Although “her” parents and siblings were ALWAYS very kind, loving, and accepting of “her” society was not. In fact, society can be very, very, very, cruel. And that fact played a role in the very lonely and very tragic life that my friend lived. Society was VERY unaccepting of “her” and “she” ultimately left this earth long before those who loved “her” would have chosen to see “her” go. I can’t help but want to ask all of society a question, “If my friend had been able to endure the pain HE experienced HIS whole life a bit longer and completed the sexual “re-assignment” process (which again, I say would REALLY have been a RESTORATION to his GENETICALLY PROVEN SEX) would you STILL have insisted HE continue to use the WOMAN’S bathroom-just like HE had been forced to do HIS whole life?” Something to think about. Isn’t it? You know, public restrooms have always been a place where children need to be protected and supervised (as they should be in ANY public place), and men have always preyed upon women in bathrooms. Predators don’t CARE about whether it is “legal” or not. They really don’t. Some years ago a woman was gang raped in the woman’s bathroom at public library here in my small town. Wasn’t “legal” for those men to be in the women’s restroom. There is no “perfect” answer to this dilemma. For goodness sake, men rape other men in public restrooms. Maybe our energy and efforts would be better spent in addressing the ROOT of the problem: predators are among us and seems like repeat offenders keep coming back. They are seldom provided with effective treatment and are poorly supervised.
(Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts).
While I’ve read your thoughts, and they are really well written…
I’ve quoted you here….
“Predators don’t CARE about whether it is “legal” or not.”
You are completely correct….
Allowing men into a womans restroom, due to the fact that he’s a transgender, is one thing, *I get it*… my problem with allowing men in, IS…. any pervert can outfit themselves as a woman, and the ladies restroom becomes a peep show, or worse….not safe for children, teens, or adult woman…they also said, that men can come into the fitting rooms…there are communal fitting rooms in Target, once again, who know’s who really is a transgender or just some pervert dressed up, just so he can come in…I think a transgender bathrooms are in order…..I would worry too about a woman who is a transgender going into the mens room……not all transponders have their ‘equipment rearranged’….
^ Leah Roberts except 2.5 MILLION union soldiers fought, and WON the war to end slavery. 360,000 paid for that freedom with their lives. Thats a large number of the population of the country at that time.
We’re talking about pandering to 0.3% of the population, while endangering the other 90+%. There HAS BEEN, and will continue to be incidents. I’m sorry that you are angry that someone else has to ruin it for the LGBT community. But you have severely underestimated sexual predators. They WILL use this to victimize people. If you’d like to challenge my sources, I am happy to provide links from even the most liberal of news agencies, acknowledging that these sexual crimes did occur as a direct result of policies and laws like the one Target has forced down everyone’s throats.
Karen Burr Powell Wow. I bet you call yourself a Christian, too. I would never wish rape on anyone. You shouldn’t either.
This is from The Daily Beast.Com….great article
When Target reiterated last week that transgender employees and customers can use restrooms and fitting rooms that match their gender, apoplectic bigots threatened to boycott.
The American Family Association (AFA), a fundamentalist Christian nonprofit that is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), claims to have gathered more than 517,000 signatures on its petition.
“Target’s store policy endangers women and children by allowing men to frequent women’s facilities,” the boycott pledge reads. “Until Target makes the safety of women and children a priority, I will shop elsewhere.”
First of all, there is no evidence to suggest that transgender people are a danger in restrooms, nor that anti-transgender legislation protects the safety of women and children.
Groups like the AFA often cite rare fringe cases of non-transgender sexual predators dressing like women in bathrooms but fail to clarify that these criminals can already be prosecuted under existing privacy legislation.
For instance, a Virginia man who dressed as a woman and brought recording equipment into a ladies’ room last year was charged with peeping and unlawful filming. Additional laws focused on chromosomes or birth certificates were—and are still—unnecessary.
But facts aside, if any open support of transgender people is a deal-breaker for the half-million signatories on AFA’s pledge, then the boycott needs to get bigger. A lot bigger.
People Are Boycotting Target Over Its Bathroom Policy
Target said customers should use the restroom of the gender they identify with, and everyone seems to have an opinion about the decision.
Last year, 407 businesses achieved a perfect score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a survey distributed by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) that measures support for LGBT employees and the broader LGBT community. That high score is impossible to achieve without having trans-inclusive health-care and anti-discrimination policies that include gender identity.
In other words, money spent at at these businesses helps to normalize a culture in which transgender people are seen as valid and worthy of special protection.
These 407 companies aren’t exactly mom-and-pop shops, either. It would be almost impossible for bigots to avoid doing business with all of them.
In fact, if you oppose transgender rights, you shouldn’t even be spreading AFA’s petition using their recommended #BoycottTarget hashtag because Facebook, Twitter, and Google all aced the CEI. Every minute spent on those social media giants helps them promote LGBT equality, including the T.
If you don’t want your money to go to a company that openly supports transgender people, you can’t buy an iPhone, eat an Egg McMuffin, drink a Sprite, stock up Budweiser, or fill your prescriptions at either of the nation’s two largest pharmacy chains because Apple, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Walgreens, and CVS all scored a 100 on the HRC index.
Good luck flying anywhere without putting money in the coffers of companies that proudly endorse LGBT rights. American, United, Southwest, JetBlue, and Alaska Airlines all earned top marks, as did Boeing. If you decide to travel by car instead, be sure you’re not in a vehicle manufactured by Ford, GM, Toyota, Nissan, or Volkswagen.
Without a car, you will have to wear non-Nike shoes to walk to your local ATM, where you should withdraw all of your money because most major banks—including Chase, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo—have a 100 on the CEI. Get used to paying with cash because you will have to shred your credit cards. Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Discover all have a perfect rating, too.
The only problem: Your options for offloading that cash are fairly limited if you don’t want any of it to go toward a world in which transgender people can pee in peace. Build your own furniture because IKEA’s a no-go but do not get the tools for it at Home Depot. You can’t buy clothes at JCPenney, Sears, Nordstrom, or, of course, Target, nor can you purchase food sold by General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft, or Kroger.
After withdrawing from public life and buying most of your goods in cash from local artisans, you will probably find yourself in need of decent home entertainment. But if you oppose trans-friendly businesses, you will have to do without a DirecTV or even a Sirius XM Radio subscription.
The good news is you can watch movies but there’s a catch. Five of the six major film production companies—Sony, Universal, Paramount, Disney, and Warner Bros.—all have a 100 on the CEI.
And last but not least, if you are so upset with Target for allying themselves with the transgender community that you’re willing to boycott, you may have to stop reading this article right now and unplug your Internet. Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner all have transgender-inclusive policies. There’d be no more #BoycottTarget movement, sure, but at least you’d be consistent.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/26/all-the-things-you-can-no-longer-buy-if-you-re-really-boycotting-trans-friendly-businesses.html
Ted Cruz is the ONLY presidential candidate who is pledged to keep grown men out of little girls bathrooms. The choice is clear America! Please vote for Cruz!
Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement. In 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations adopted a ‘Gay Rights Platform” that included the following demand: “Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.” David Thorstad, a spokesman for the homosexual rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: ‘The ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of sexual freedom for all – not just equal rights for ‘lesbians and gay men, but also freedom of sexual expression for young people and children.” This goal has not changed since it was articulated in 1972.
Enrique T. Rueda, The Homosexual Network (Old Greenwhich, Connecticut: The Devin Adair Company, 1982), p. 201
http://www.emaso.com/links/extra/frightening_gay_statistics/frightening_gay_statistics.htm
#christiantaliban
Lol what kind of dumbfuckery is that
How do I protect them from you?