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Fitbit and Starbucks feel the wrath of rabid social justice warriors
Post Millennial ^ | Feb. 13, 2020 | Libby Emmons

Posted on 02/13/2020 9:54:32 AM PST by rickmichaels

Corporate marketing execs clamour to catch the next big trend and run with it. They want to sell an image, a lifestyle, and look compassionate and caring while they do it. That’s what makes Fitbit’s latest move so surprising, and Starbucks’ approach so predictable.

Fitness tracker Fitbit’s failure to fabricate gender categories for nonbinary females using the “female health tracker” engendered a freakout from Twitter user Lilo the Autistic Queer. She wanted the app to facilitate period tracking but didn’t fancy claiming femaleness to do it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
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1 posted on 02/13/2020 9:54:32 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels
My 6th grader, when asked, "What is a social justice warrior?": "A lunatic!" "A nut!" "Actually it's kinda cool to trash on those kinds of people."
2 posted on 02/13/2020 10:01:02 AM PST by Savage Beast (My perception of Trump these days is that he is in close communication with God. --Qiviut)
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To: rickmichaels

So what’s going on here? Someone is offended, because there is some built in assumption that females have menstrual periods, and that the only people who menstruate are female?

And then does this mean someone was bigoted to make such assumptions?


3 posted on 02/13/2020 10:01:56 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Here’s the deal: someone who doesn’t like being either male or female wants to track a female biological function but without it being called female health tracking. Said someone wants the word “female” removed from the app so said-someone can track their (apparently) “female”-less biological function.

In other words: Quiet, please! An attention-whore is speaking!


4 posted on 02/13/2020 11:17:34 AM PST by Retrofitted
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To: rickmichaels

Track my male menstrual cycles, bigot!


5 posted on 02/13/2020 11:29:27 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Savage Beast

Tell them that social justice warriors are what happens when the class snitch grows up.


6 posted on 02/13/2020 11:30:25 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: rickmichaels

Insane gender-obsessed mentally unstable people really need that app to affirm their chosen gender, or they will fly into a rage. Just as they really need to go into the bathroom that is labeled with their chosen gender to confirm their delusion.


7 posted on 02/13/2020 12:33:27 PM PST by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: Boogieman
It's funny to hear grammar school children discuss these things. Whereas they once tended to parrot their "liberal/progressive/left-wing" teachers, today they ridicule these hare-brained ideas and the lunatics who spew them forth. It's refreshing!

Today one of mine was making jokes about the Iowa Democratic Caucus. "They still don't know who won!" he said, and: "Nobody can stop Trump!" Apparently he's been talking about it with his classmates on the playground and in the lunchroom. They seem to regard their "liberal/progressive/left-wing" teachers as lunatics.

There's hope for the world.

8 posted on 02/13/2020 1:11:02 PM PST by Savage Beast (My perception of Trump these days is that he is in close communication with God. --Qiviut)
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To: rickmichaels
Lilo the Autistic Queer... WTF???
9 posted on 02/13/2020 4:16:57 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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