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The recent Bud Light and Target grassroots boycotts from the political right seem to have at the very least made the news cycles and entered into public consciousness. While our mainstream media reports this as "anti-LGBT" sentiment, the actual bridge too far is the tranny issue. I think the Bud Light fiasco was a sort of perfect storm where their tranny kowtowing became a proxy for all the woke stuff that normal people are fed up with, from race propaganda to gay months to rainbow flags, none of which were ever voted on. Suddenly, everyone said "enough!" and while you still can't criticize race propaganda, gay months, and rainbow flags, you can at least choose to not drink tranny beer. That's all we have left, so eager conservatives jumped at it.
The first product I can remember "boycotting" was Cheerios. About ten years ago, they ran a series of ads with a white woman dressed in a business suit making breakfast in a hurry. Her black husband/boyfriend lounged on the couch, eating his cereal in peace. These ads were obviously aimed at women, who were meant to see themselves as powerful professionals, heads of household, and also able to win the bread for a lazy live-in boyfriend. The sexual implication was loud and up front, and the interracial aspect was at the time still new, eye-catching, and shocking. It was simple for me to say to myself, "This company hates me, so I will never eat Cheerios again." Unfortunately, this sort of commercial is completely commonplace less than a decade later.
Proctor & Gamble, maker of Gillette razors, ran an commercial during the "#metoo" days telling men to shape up and stop being so damn toxic. It featured a black construction worker stopping his white construction worker colleague from cat-calling an unseen woman. That same month, Gillette ran an ad with a black man teaching his son to shave in the bathroom mirror. Except, the son was actually a daughter and she was shaving the mustache that was presumably growing as a result of the tranny hormone cocktails she'd been taking. This was an easy call for me to say, "That's the end of that product for me!"
Ritz Crackers are also "tranny crackers" in my mind after a Christmas commercial with men in dresses celebrating the holiday spirit together (rather than with their families who do not accept them). But, I'm sure that if I were to make a comprehensive list of companies that have offended my mild-mannered temperament, I'd run out of ink or paper before I'd finished.
It's hard to say how much the bottom lines of major multinational brands are really affected by their intentional insults to a sizable chunk of consumers. It would be satisfying if they paid for it in the pocket, but I'm not certain it really makes a difference considering some of the market saturation. However, I can say that it's a positive spiritual exercise. It keeps me grounded to abstain from such products, even if the conversation never leaves my internal monologue. I feel a sense of sanity in an insane world.
What products or brands do you boycott? Any particularly evil companies that I should add to my no-no list?
The first product I can remember "boycotting" was Cheerios. About ten years ago, they ran a series of ads with a white woman dressed in a business suit making breakfast in a hurry. Her black husband/boyfriend lounged on the couch, eating his cereal in peace. These ads were obviously aimed at women, who were meant to see themselves as powerful professionals, heads of household, and also able to win the bread for a lazy live-in boyfriend. The sexual implication was loud and up front, and the interracial aspect was at the time still new, eye-catching, and shocking. It was simple for me to say to myself, "This company hates me, so I will never eat Cheerios again." Unfortunately, this sort of commercial is completely commonplace less than a decade later.
Proctor & Gamble, maker of Gillette razors, ran an commercial during the "#metoo" days telling men to shape up and stop being so damn toxic. It featured a black construction worker stopping his white construction worker colleague from cat-calling an unseen woman. That same month, Gillette ran an ad with a black man teaching his son to shave in the bathroom mirror. Except, the son was actually a daughter and she was shaving the mustache that was presumably growing as a result of the tranny hormone cocktails she'd been taking. This was an easy call for me to say, "That's the end of that product for me!"
Ritz Crackers are also "tranny crackers" in my mind after a Christmas commercial with men in dresses celebrating the holiday spirit together (rather than with their families who do not accept them). But, I'm sure that if I were to make a comprehensive list of companies that have offended my mild-mannered temperament, I'd run out of ink or paper before I'd finished.
It's hard to say how much the bottom lines of major multinational brands are really affected by their intentional insults to a sizable chunk of consumers. It would be satisfying if they paid for it in the pocket, but I'm not certain it really makes a difference considering some of the market saturation. However, I can say that it's a positive spiritual exercise. It keeps me grounded to abstain from such products, even if the conversation never leaves my internal monologue. I feel a sense of sanity in an insane world.
What products or brands do you boycott? Any particularly evil companies that I should add to my no-no list?
