It has now been over a month since Target announced that it would begin to allow male customers and employees into women’s restrooms and fitting rooms as long as they “identify” as women. The policy applies to female employees and customers as well. Following the April 19 announcement, the retail giant received praise from many in the LGBT community and on the far left.
Much of that praise, however, has been drowned out by the #BoycottTarget movement, which has garnered over 1.25 million signatures on its boycott pledge. Clearly, Target massively underestimated the public’s tolerance for left-wing, politically correct nonsense.
Research estimates that transgender people make up roughly 0.25% of the American population, and apparently a significant number of the remaining 99.75% of Americans are not comfortable sharing restrooms or changing rooms — or allowing their children to do so — with people who feel they were “assigned” the wrong gender at birth.
Since its announcement, Target’s sales have seen a sharp decline and CEO Brian Cornell knows the cause. Climate change of course. To read what Cornell had to say regarding the company’s sales plummet, and why the weather — not its bathroom policy and massive boycott — is to blame, continue reading on the next page:
Dot 3 the people who spend their money there will not tolerate it.
He is just lieng. Both to himself and to the stockholder’s. The only climate change is the chilly atmosphere toward Target’s policy.
The man is a fool! BOYCOTT TARGET! When this company losses enough money, the big stock holders will remove this fool from the company!
Right, uncaring, unfeeling, Godless morons. The 97% will win.
Climate change it only affects librals and Target.
And are removing Bibles from their shelves.
They can close the doors. There politically correct stance on soo ooooo much stuff I’ve had enough. No you’ve lost a customer. …m
Dear creepy heterosexual men guarding our bathrooms,
My entire life, I’ve been told to fear you in one way or another. I’ve been told to cover my body as to not distract you in school, to cover my body to help avoid unwanted advances or comments, to cover my body as to not tempt you to sexually assault me, to reject your unwanted advances politely as to not anger you. I’ve been taught to never walk alone at night, to hold my keys in my fist while walking in parking lots, to check the backseat of my car, to not drink too much because you might take advantage of me. I’ve been told what I should and shouldn’t do with my body as to not jeopardize my relationships with you.
I’ve been warned not to emasculate you, to let “boys be boys”, to protect your fragile ego and to not tread on your even more fragile masculinity. I’ve been taught to keep my emotions in check, to let you be the unit of measure for how much emotion is appropriate and to adjust my emotions accordingly. I’ve been taught that you’re allowed to categorize women into mothers/sisters/girlfriends/wives/daughters but any woman outside of your protected categories is fair game.
So to those of you who think you’re being helpful by “protecting” me and my fellow women, you’re like a shark sitting in the Lifeguard chair. I wasn’t uncomfortable until you showed up at the pool and the only potential predator I see is you.
Your mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives and daughters don’t need you to walk them to the bathroom for safety. Your fathers, brothers, friends and sons need to walk themselves away from their own double standards. Women are sexually harassed and sexually assaulted on school campuses, on the street, at their jobs, on the Internet, in their own homes, in ANY public place. And it has been excused or ignored for so long because of what you and I are taught from the first years of our interactions with each other: You, as a male, are not accountable for your own actions. It’s MY responsibility, as a female, to not “provoke” you. But then you get to Knight-In-Shining-Armor your way through life for those in your protected categories and I am expected to applaud you. Why the outrage now over bathrooms? Why aren’t you outraged every single day?
If you’re telling me that there are high volumes of boys and men out there, in schools or in general, who are just waiting for a “loop hole” to sexually assault girls and women, we have bigger problems on our hands than bathrooms. The first problem would be your apparent lack of knowledge of how often it happens OUTSIDE of bathrooms, with no “loop holes” needed. This isn’t about Transgender bathroom access. This is about you not trusting the boys and men in your communities and/or fearing that they’re all secretly predators. Why do you have this fear? How many fathers have panicked when their daughters started dating because they “know how teenaged boys can be because they used to be one”? How many times have girls been warned “boys are only after one thing”? A mother can bring her young son into the women’s restroom and that’s fine but a father bringing his young daughter into the men’s restroom is disturbing because men are assumed to be predators and “little girls” shouldn’t be exposed to that.
So instead of picking up your sword and heading to Target or the girls’ locker room to defend our “rights”, why don’t you start somewhere that could actually make a difference? Challenge your children’s schools to end sexist dress codes and dress codes that sexualize girls as young as age 5. Advocate for proper (or any) sex education classes in all public schools by a certain grade level. Focus more on teaching your sons not to rape vs teaching your daughters how to avoid being raped. Stop asking “How would you feel if that was your mother or sister?” It shouldn’t take the comparison to clue you in to what’s right or wrong. Question why you’re more worried about your daughter being around men than your son being around women in bathrooms and dressing rooms. Stop walking by Victoria’s Secret with no problem but covering your son’s eyes if a woman is breastfeeding in public. Stop treating your daughter’s body as some fortress you’re sworn to protect as if that’s all she’s got to offer the world.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/05/05/comprehensive-guide-debunked-bathroom-predator-myth/210200
Lol
Vote trump
Ps
Boycott target still
THE CLIMATE CERTAINLY DID CHANGE IN TARGET