Not because I hate the planet or because I am a bigot. I think products ought to be sold on the basis of their VALUE, and trying to "guilt" me into buying something in a mass market like Wal-Mart is despicable.
I would rather buy items as a charitable contribution to those who REALLY are struggling. For instance, there are women in Afghanistan making shawls and trying to sell there wares in order to survive....or communities of women in Haiti working with missionaries and entrepreneurs to make native jewelry. The craftsmanship is remarkable and worth supporting....for the sake of the women....
But Wal-Mart or anyone else trying to highlight mass market stuff? For me it will BACKFIRE.
All of this does not end well.
Also,
Look for... the union lay bull
and make sure you’re buying...
something... else...
Really? I must not have gotten the memo.
That’s sexist !!!
Good offense move against liberals.
I’m waiting for lactose intolerant clothes.
Doesn’t mean a thing. There’s more than likely, a big daddy behind curtain No. 2.
A label telling you that a ‘man’ doesn’t own this business, that is advancement today? No wonder modern America is such a miserable and fracturing society.
Well then I guess they don’t want a sexist pig, liken me, buying their crap
I can’t wait for ‘women owned’s new line of handcuffs, vacuum cleaners, irons, sandwich bread/meats,...
Well...since the owners are likely LIBERAL women...I will know what NOT to buy
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I rarely go to Wal-Mart. Maybe once every three months....but I am inclined to avoid any special labeling on a product that smacks of being “green”, “x owned” or PC.
Not because I hate the planet or because I am a bigot. I think products ought to be sold on the basis of their VALUE, and trying to “guilt” me into buying something in a mass market like Wal-Mart is despicable.
I would rather buy items as a charitable contribution to those who REALLY are struggling. For instance, there are women in Afghanistan making shawls and trying to sell there wares in order to survive....or communities of women in Haiti working with missionaries and entrepreneurs to make native jewelry. The craftsmanship is remarkable and worth supporting....for the sake of the women....
But Wal-Mart or anyone else trying to highlight mass market stuff? For me it will BACKFIRE.
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Agreed. Very well stated.
My .02:
I, for one, will endeavor to NOT purchase goods with a MBE/WBE label (minority business enterprise/woman business enterprise), those being granted advantages over everyone else just because the ‘owner’(s) qualify for special treatment...’subsidies’ by one definition. ‘Affirmative Action’ by another.
I call it ‘truth in labeling’. ‘Backfire’ is a good word for the program.
Women owned, gluten-free, sustainably and organically sourced, fair trade hemp should do well.
talk about illegal discrimination.
what if this said (insert skin color) owned?
what if this said “skinny person” owned? (or not fat person owned)
We’ve had this type of incentive done in hiring business for city/state work.
The result is often a 3 person “middle-man” company consisting of a majority-women-owned paper company that hires the regular companies doing the actual work. The incentives are just a payoff to certain people.
Sometimes it was done by putting the company in the name of the wives of the owners. I worked for one of those a couple times.
Is that so we guys will know what to avoid buying? < /sarc >
Since Women-Owned means “Non Men-Owned”, and if labeling items in such manner goes unchallenged, and if “sexual orientation” is to be treated no differently than “sexually as-created” (as in the sex that God designated for you), then will there soon be a company with the label “straight-owned” and will it also go unchallenged?
Every time I hear “women owned,” I think about a woman who was a professional “Women’s Advocate” who I used to know (we had mutual friends). Every time we went out to dinner with friends and she was there, she insisted on going to a “womany owned” restaraunt. She was probably one of the top three or four most obnoxious people I ever met.