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The Boycott Calls for North Face Have Begun After 'Summer of Pride' Ad Stuns Customers
Townhall ^ | 05/26/2023 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 05/26/2023 4:49:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Despite the backlash over the Bud Light partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, companies continue to push the envelope for Pride Month, now just days away from "officially" beginning. Target held an emergency meeting recently over the backlash over some of its pride merchandise that included "tuck friendly" swimsuits, controversial items geared toward kids, and a product line designed by a Satanist. The company has since ordered certain southern stores to scale back their pride displays and move them, as well as pulling all items from the Devil-worshipper. But now the Target and Bud Light controversies are looking like small potatoes compared to what North Face has done.

The company kicked off its "Summer of Pride" with an ad posted on Instagram that looks like it came from the pages of The Babylon Bee, as many on social media questioned whether it was real.

"Hi, it's me Patti Gonia – a real-life homosexual. Today, I'm here with the North Face and we are here to invite you to come out... in nature with us!" the drag queen says at the beginning of the video.

The drag queen is donning an outfit to promote the company's "Outside Together" collection of rainbow-colored shirts, hats, shorts, and more in adult and youth sizes.

North Face is pushing this for 2-7 year olds


pic.twitter.com/jhKbdRyAAT

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 24, 2023

In the video, "Gonia" invites North Face fans to "gay sashay across the nation" with events in Oregon, Colorado, Ohio, California, Georgia, and Utah.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; childabuse; clothing; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; lgbt; northface
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1 posted on 05/26/2023 4:49:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That repulsive creature really makes me want to stock up on everything North Face...if only I could suppress my gag reflex.


2 posted on 05/26/2023 4:51:38 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There may be so many targets worthy of boycotting during this summer, a small group of consumers may just decide not to patronize any retailer except for the most essential. Recession awaits in the third quarter.


3 posted on 05/26/2023 4:52:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind
Sheesh, these big time elites really don't know who their customer base is.
4 posted on 05/26/2023 4:53:17 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What is there to be ‘proud’ of?
Allowing another man’s penis to be shoved up your evacutory opening?
Where is the pride in that?
Seems pretty stupid to me .


5 posted on 05/26/2023 5:02:54 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: lee martell
North Face makes their overpriced junk in Bangladesh, India, and Viet Nam. Business plan: pay third world coolies petty pence. Resell the sweat of the coolie brow to rich first world white people at a 1000% markup. Profit!

6 posted on 05/26/2023 5:08:28 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The last thing I want to worry about is running into some Buffalo Bill in rainbow gear when I am in the woods.

Nice going, North Face. You’re fired.


7 posted on 05/26/2023 5:16:38 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left’s New Summer of Love meant protests against police complete with looting, burned stores and torched police cars and gunfire in shopping areas.

Ours will mean upset people calling talk radio and others complaining to each other in private.

A woman on the Dennis Prager Show guest host show today said the Leftists burn American flags as well as force their homosexual ideas and gender names onto us and children in school.

She said we should burn gay pride flags in protests.

He said: No. That would mean an arrest for a hate crime.


I do not see why only one type is free speech (the “speech” being burning an American flag, or urinating on a picture of Christ). We know the other would mean loss of job, professional credentials, chance to have a good career and chance to stay out of jail. So totally chilling effect on free speech-—for us.

To be honest, this man was sought thanks to social media outcry and later turned himself in and apparently there is a law against his vandalism.
Man Wanted For Urinating On American Flags At Veterans ...

Rare.us
https://rare.us › Rare News › Across the U.S.A.
Sep 14, 2018 — Massachusetts police are searching for a man after he was seen urinating on several American flags at a veterans cemetery.


(He was there with a woman on a date. The graves hold the remains of veterans of WWII, Korea and the 1982 Beirut bombing. May they rest in peace.)
https://patch.com/massachusetts/somerville/somerville-cemetery-flag-urination-suspect-was-date


8 posted on 05/26/2023 5:25:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SeekAndFind

Instead of wearing BLAZE during Hunting Season, wear FLAME./s


9 posted on 05/26/2023 5:37:04 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I thought North Face strived for a rugged outdoorsy image.

Like many products with formerly masculine or feminine images, North Face now seeks to blur the lines.

10 posted on 05/26/2023 5:37:46 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Chgogal

They don’t care. Vanguard and blackrock want the recession.


11 posted on 05/26/2023 5:44:08 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: frank ballenger
I do not see why only one type is free speech (the “speech” being burning an American flag, or urinating on a picture of Christ).

A court might rule that burning a rainbow, BLM, or Israeli flag is intended as harassment or intimidation of a protected group.

Fifteen years in Iowa jail for burning pride flag.

A Proud Boys Leader Who Burned A Black Lives Matter Flag Gets 5 Months In Jail.

Teen gets probation and must apologize for burning Israeli flags.

The latter story is from Canada. I'm not sure if it's yet a crime to burn an Israeli flag in the U.S. I'm guessing it depends on whether the flag burner was "of color" or white.

12 posted on 05/26/2023 5:47:54 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Thanks for the examples.
True, their voting bloc groups are “protected.”

Like the 1930s gangsters and later the organized crime enforcers demanding a take from small business and restaurant owners some people get special protection. Can’t be too careful. However, step outside the Dem Party Plantation and you lose the protection fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPdIxcAn84


13 posted on 05/26/2023 6:05:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SeekAndFind
The company kicked off its "Summer of Pride" with an ad posted on Instagram that looks like it came from the pages of The Babylon Bee, as many on social media questioned whether it was real.

That's pretty bad.......

14 posted on 05/26/2023 6:23:49 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Dont forget mashing two vaginas together. They are proud of that too.


15 posted on 05/26/2023 6:28:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Angelino97

I had a North Face windbreaker for many years long ago now. No longer have it and I’m glad I don’t have to toss it now. Already gone with the wind. North Face joins a number of companies that are no go for me going forward.


16 posted on 05/26/2023 6:31:41 PM PDT by xp38
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To: LeoWindhorse

Go to the 5:00-minute mark to hear Norm MacDonald talking about gay pride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmbMPIisgI


17 posted on 05/26/2023 6:36:41 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

You really should watch Norm MacDonald’s take on proud parents of gays during the Dennis Miller show.


18 posted on 05/26/2023 9:41:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Norm is sadly missed.


19 posted on 05/26/2023 9:43:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

patti doesnt seem the outdoorsy type

the high heel hiking boots are a tip off


20 posted on 05/26/2023 10:06:25 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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