Posted on 04/30/2016 7:34:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When retail giant Target announced their new policy of allowing anyone to use whichever bathroom they wish in their stores it was completely predictable that a firestorm was going to follow… and boy howdy, has it ever. While the SJW crowd cheered the decision, realists around the country signaled their collective displeasure with a boycott of the store spearheaded by The American Family Association. In a relatively short time, more than one million people had signed on to the protest. (Fox News)
More than one million people have decided they will no longer buy their Nutter Butters or Wet Wipes at Target.
The American Family Association launched a boycott of the nation’s second largest retailer a week ago – over Target’s corporate policy allowing men who identify as women to use the bathrooms and fitting rooms of their choosing.
“We believe that everyone – every team member, every guest, and every community – deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally,” the company wrote in a statement. “Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination.”
Is the boycott having any sort of effect in such a short period of time? These things are often hard to gauge, but in this case there seems to be a strong hint provided in the fact that the company’s stock has taken a precipitous drop during the same period. (Daily Caller)
On Friday, the shares of Target Corporation Common Stock (TGT) fell 2.52 percent in one day, according to recent reports. In addition since April 19th, the day they announced the new policy, the stock went from a share value of $84.14 to $79.27 per share. That’s a drop of 5.8 percent in 10 days.
The Family Policy institute says they estimate that to be a loss to the company of $2.5 billion dollars…
As previously reported, in addition to signing the “boycott pledge” the group is encouraging people to post on Target’s Facebook page that they are upset about the new policy.
While I’m not generally a fan of boycotts as a means of enacting political change, this one is understandable and, as I said above, predictable. I also find the focus of the protest message to be a bit off the mark as well, while understanding the concerns being raised. Opponents of this misguided policy at Target continue to stress the danger of sexual predators using the open bathroom access as an invitation to perpetrate assaults. While I suppose it’s possible, it also seems unlikely that a determined predator would allow a gender designation sign on a door stop them from pursuing their victims, and incidents of such attacks seem to be rare. These scenarios are less disconcerting than cases where women are forced to share locker rooms and showers with men, opening the door to creepy voyeurs breaking out their cell phone cameras and worse.
Running the debate immediately to these worst case scenarios overshadows the underlying argument to be made. What about the simple concept of propriety and privacy which any civilized person should accept? Women should not be forced to use the bathroom, change in a locker room or take a shower in front of a strange man. Is that really so difficult to understand or express in a public policy statement?
This isn’t the first time Target has dipped a toe into the troubled “gender identity” waters. Last summer we talked about the store’s new policy of “de-gendering” the toys and clothing aisles so as not to offend anyone. The sad part of all this is that this stupid, pointless battle (which was clearly going to affect the company’s sales no matter which way they went on it) was completely unnecessary. Just as with public, government facilities, there is a simple (if still costly) solution, assuming one believes that a solution is required. In fact San Francisco (of all places) hit on the idea very early in the national debate. If a company or public facility truly feels that they must jump into this entire “degendering” fiasco, then in addition to traditional facilities for each gender, simply add on a third, gender neutral bathroom or other facility. Then anyone going in can be informed that there is no gender requirement for occupancy and, likewise, the owner/management offers no guarantee as to the gender of the other patrons you may encounter in there. Alternately, when new facilities are constructed, put in multiple, single user facilities and just label them as “shower” or “bathroom” or “changing room.”
Problem solved. Then, if someone wants to insist that they must be allowed in public facilities with people of the opposite gender, their true agenda is exposed. (You will be made to not only care, but to participate.) This is an important aspect of the conversation which the SJW all to often succeeds in suppressing. We aren’t having a conversation here about discrimination or the suppression of anyone else’s rights. Dress however you wish. And for that matter, the vast majority of us aren’t going to care one way or the other what you call yourself despite the obvious denial of basic genetics and science on display. The real motivation of the SJW is to force such twisted claims on everyone else and mandate their participation even when it comes at the expense of the rights of the majority.
“It’s delusional.”
Just post to this thread every three months and prove to everyone that you are right. That’s what I would do if I was convinced as you are. Prove everyone wrong. See where this is in three months, and the three months after that, and so on. It’s the internet, it seems like it would be easy to do. Hey, I think you might be right. But I would love to be proved wrong.
Freegards
"You'll meet the most interesting people in our bathrooms!"
"Come to Target with your kids -- or send them alone."
Probably does not matter so much about your diapers! But my typically once a year visit to this retailer is definitely history. $7 down the drain. Your puts should have you rolling in tall cottons from wallyworld.
Tell them you’re a claustrophobic. You have rights too!
Check out the list at #36.
I signed and I already stopped going there over their lax payment security.
Anyway the answer is simple. The ladies’ restroom is for (biological) ladies.
The men’s restroom can suffice for men and confused persons.
The alphabet club will hate that, but they won’t be able to defend why. This is because, at its root, this really is pervy peekers trying to check out chicks.
My post was just a summary of the 20 incidents.
If you go to the link in my post you will find there is quite a bit of detail there.
I'm sure other retailers have similar problems but the issue here is Target's seeming willingness to make it easier for these kinds of violation instead of nore difficult.
Can anyone tell me why a trans-gender man is MORE worthy of protection than a 10 year old child or a grandmother?
Good news.
The Family Policy institute says they estimate that to be a loss to the company of $2.5 billion dollars…
Somebody doesn't understand how the stock market works.
LOL!!!! If I stll lifter Target would be taking a major hit as well
It was my favorite store at the time it had Marshall Field’s quality but it much cheaper prices
That sounds tasty, kind of like a root beer float!
Well said. AND, they want to make the actions and lifestyles of these perverts to be seen as Officially Normal....something they will never be.
I have $27,000 in Target stock, dumping it to buy Apple which is cheap right niw under $100. I am mad at Target for not just building a third bathroom for uni-sex or other. Makes no sense other than just build a third toilet room for uni-sex.
So your are the one who bought my Apple so I could buy Amazon. Buy Amazon
BS meter going off with this article.
“Women should not be forced to use the bathroom, change in a locker room or take a shower in front of a strange man. Is that really so difficult to understand or express in a public policy statement?”
I certainly agree with that, but no one cared when female reporters barged into male sports locker rooms for the last forty years.
>I certainly agree with that, but no one cared when female reporters barged into male sports locker rooms for the last forty years.
News flash: (unmarried) guys don’t mind so much if a lady is in their locker room. The converse is *not* true.
It is all to confuse and sexualize little children. I know a woman who had a five year old and saw the figure of half male and half female and was very confused-—the girl noticed it before the mother and it WILL be embedded in her memory, no matter what the mother says or does.
Images are like a thousand words to little children and that is why the Leftists had to make “Marriage” meaningless, so they could flood very young children with images of males kissing, etc. They have to warp the sexual identity formation of young children to groom them for their slavery, and make unnatural acts “normal” esp. in all the homeschooled kids.
Public schools are already normalizing perversion since “Pride” days in anal sex two decades ago. That is how they made possible such a vile, evil concept of “homosexual” marriage to literally flip 2000 years of Ethics to the boy harem homosexual islamic cultures and like Spartan and the Samurai where boys are the preferred sexual “partner”, as Walid Shoebat stated.
The Fichte plan is to make little children so removed from Reality and common sense that they believe EVERYTHING the State says, even that “snow is black”. They will be so dumb and ignorant, like tribal minds, that they will be incapable of Free Will (choice) because critical thinking will be impossible. There is nothing in their brains that isn’t a complete Lie and irrational (like Marxism—the Big Lie). When you deny design of your own body, deny your sexual identity which can either be male or female, you become a slave (totally removed from Truth/God and Reality.)
Age of Reason and Modern Science came from only a Christian Worldview. Design in Nature (Natural Law Theory came from Christianity as did Free Will and Individual Natural Rights from God. Homosexuality ejects Reason and God’s Design-—that which created the US Justice (virtue) System.
Now we have a Vice System, and we are normalizing vice in young children and teaching them Evil is Good, which will destroy civil society and create corrupted, immoral children with tribal (irrational islamic/pagan) worldview.
Good. Hope this gets their liberal Obama worshipping CEO ousted too. Stupid decisions have consequences.
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