Culture Police Target Bloomingdale's Holiday Catalog

Reason ^ | November 18, 2015 | Tracy Quan

[sparklite2]

Last week, the concerned citizens of Twitter strong-armed a nationwide chain, Bloomingdale's, into issuing a public apology.

The chain's offense was a troublesome layout in its holiday catalog, featuring a carefree blonde in a party-skirt and jacket ensemble.

The irreverent caption, "Spike your best friend's eggnog when they're not looking," triggered feminist outrage, snarky allusions to Bill Cosby, and unkind comments about the ad's "creepy" male model.

[sauropod]

Mark

[trisham]

Pro-rape ads are so appealing, yes?

[DJ MacWoW]

Spiking eggnog is an old tradition. The problem is our youth use drugs, not whiskey.

[trisham]

I would never want to have someone “spike” my drink. That’s wrong.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yeah but you taste the whiskey immediately. The drugs? Not so much.

[cloudmountain]

I am TRYING to think of who might remember that Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ. I know that even the Japanese celebrate Christmas and there ain't NO Christians there to speak of. But, it's just lights, presents and parties.

My mother, husband and I happened to be in Cairo, Egypt, on Christmas. The hotel gave a big party for us and out walked an Arab dressed as Santa, saying "Eid Milaad Saeed," the Arab version of Merry Christmas. I was thinking that I had just entered the TWILIGHT ZONE.

The early Catholic Church had no clue of the month and date of Christ's birth so they DECIDED to make it December 25.
As I recall, and I may be wrong, the birth date was specifically decided around the winter solstice when the days began to get longer, likening it to Christ's birth as the light in our daily lives increasing.

The Church figured out Passover and Easter, but Christmas was a DECISION by the early Church.

[cloudmountain]

Spiking eggnog is an old tradition. The problem is our youth use drugs, not whiskey.

Also a big problem: the stupids who REALLY believe that there's nothing wrong with drugs. That WAS the mantra of the sixties. They were all a bunch of MORONS.

[trisham]

Whether alcohol or other drugs, it’s wrong to do that to someone.

[DJ MacWoW]

I've had mine spiked with whiskey and knew it at the first sip. Kids using drugs are the issue.

As cloudmountain said, the Swinging 60's did a lot of damage.

[trisham]

I don’t think that I understand what you’re trying to say. Isn’t spiking someone’s drink a bad thing?

[sparklite2]

Read the article before deciding who rapes who. ;)

[DJ MacWoW]

Isn't spiking someone's drink a bad thing?

Yes it is. But in our youth you knew when it was spiked. Now you can't tell so that ad was stupid.

[trisham]

I give up. Go on without me.

[trisham]

I wouldn’t have known.

[DJ MacWoW]

Maybe my Hubby was a tad “heavy handed”? lol

[sparklite2]

It’s hard to know where change leads.

The twenties broke new ground in what was acceptable culturally, women’s voting, urban overtook rural, cigarette smoking, fashion, etc. The freed up social norms regressed somewhat during the Depression, with weed becoming illegal and the attempt at Prohibition failing. All this gave us the buttoned-down fifties.

The sixties broke ground again with the sexual revolution, ascendance of leftism in academe and women’s lib.

I’d have to say the twenties left us better off while the sixties pushed us irretrievably left, to great disadvantage.

[sparklite2]

I like what Amy Schumer said:
"Since I quit dating latinos,
I'm more into consensual sex."

[IronJack]

snarky allusions to Bill Cosby Clinton

[sparklite2]

True, that.