As the left loves to say - "It's a learning experience".
Let the stockholders see the declining profits when management panders to less than 1% of the population.
Posted on 04/24/2016 5:28:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Advocates of traditional family values are calling for a boycott of Target in response to the retail giant's announcement that they allow transgender people to use the restroom and dressing room that aligns with their preferred gender identity. The other way of saying this is that grown men have unrestricted and no-questions-asked access to bathrooms designated for women and girls.
Via their website, Target announced, "[W]e welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. …Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."
Critics allege that this move is less common sense than nonsense by putting women and girls at risk of increased predation because sexually predatory men will use Target's policy to gain access to female victims. These are very serious concerns, and should not be minimized.
So how can we act to protect the most vulnerable in our society and actually effect change?
Three considerations to tamp down the hair-on-fire call to boycott Target:
1. While it is true that sexual predators exploit the freedom and trust in our society, predatory behavior remains illegal at all times in all places. Target is on notice that there is concern and fear that their policy invites predation. They should be given the opportunity to prove to be a good corporate citizen by announcing specific plans to insure the safety of all people while in their stores.
2. We need to step back and acknowledge what's actually happening on a larger scale and deeper level. The culture has shifted and nonsense has replaced common sense in many sectors. What was once considered absurd now demands not only accommodation but cultural adulation. That brings to the reality that transgender people feel as uncomfortable in a restroom that does not align with their gender identity as you feel with the idea of sharing a restroom with a person whose anatomy does not align with the sign on the door.
This is complicated and culturally contentious but raising the alert level to full-scale-screaming does not help. There is a clear contest underway in our culture: is gender a God-designed binary reality or is it a mutable fluid of the individual?
If Christians start boycotting every corporation that operates out of progressivism's politically-correct profit-motives, our choices are going to be very narrow, our voice further sidelined and our influence further diminished.
3. The boycott war is neither persuasive nor effective. States, colleges, professional sports associations, global corporations and performers have all joined the boycott of states whose laws require that in public environments, people use the restroom that corresponds with their birth certificate. So maybe boycotting Target is tit-for-tat turn-around-is-fair-play. But what does that accomplish?
Maybe a corporate engagement strategy through Target stock shareholders or a proactive campaign that seeks to fight predation of women and girls and addresses the dehumanizing abusive bullying of transgender people would yield superior results. The current boycott war is only driving us further apart from those with whom we disagree and those whose challenges we don't understand. (And yes, I'll be escorting my minor children to the bathroom while simultaneously exercising my second amendment right.)
Alternatives to a boycott:
How might we influence the conversation without threatening withdrawal and boycott? Is being further sidelined and isolated really the most effective approach for Christians who hope to positively influence the culture? How can we help insure every person's privacy and protection, including women, girls and transgender people? Is there a simple and reasonable accommodation that satisfies all concerned? What about the addition of single access, single occupancy restrooms or changing rooms?
Suggesting that boycotting Target misses the target is not to say that as consumers and citizens we should be silent or passive.
Each of us and all of us need to be proactive about our own protection: if you are a woman and you are by yourself and need to use the restroom or changing room, ask a female associate to monitor the facility. If a person who presents as male seeks entry, the Target employee should inform that customer that the facility is occupied and currently unavailable. If they can't wait, they could be directed to the single occupancy facility. If they protest, they should be informed that although their right to use the restroom or changing room of their choice is Target's policy, that policy holds for every guest and team member. And the guest or team member currently using the facility has asked for a reasonable accommodation of their safety. And if we're talking about your child, you should be in the facility with them at all times.
Instead of boycotting, why not call on Target to insure the safety of women and girls while they are also providing reasonable accommodation to transgender individuals? Instead of widening the chasm why not find the common concern of privacy and safety which stands at the center of concern for both groups?
If you'd like to weigh in personally, call Target Guest Relations at 1-800-440-0680. Share your concerns on their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/target.
This reads like it was written by Target.
I still think the only *practical* alternatives are not “soft” ones. That is, only liberals and fools think that staff meetings, counseling, and hand holding, while at their strongest to “deplore” the evil acts of evil people, actually accomplishes *anything*. They does not.
So what are the “hard” alternatives?
1) Target needs to install surveillance cameras in its restrooms, assuredly monitored *only* by security personnel appropriate to that gender. And to prosecute any obscene, indecent or harassing behavior by those in their restrooms. And restrooms must be posted according to these criteria.
2) Prohibit children under the age of 18 from entering their restrooms, unless accompanied by an adult parent or guardian. And if there is no available adult parent or guardian, the store will provide them a chaperon of the appropriate gender, to help insure them that they are not set upon by a sexual predator.
Of course, both of these things are far more tangible than what Target has done so far. But it gives Target the opportunity to “put their money where their mouth is”, instead of just risking the lives of their customers.
And unless one or both of these means are carried out, then Target should be financially liable for any harm that comes to someone using their restroom.
The solution until the cultures cancer is defeated will be numerous individual uni-sex individual bathrooms..... Short term will be security guards inside to prevent the perverts doing pervert stuff to others....
The boycott war is neither persuasive nor effective...
Wow is that wrong!!
been working great for the other side in changing governors’ minds.
I suggest all men simply start using the ladies room.
Your little micro-aggressor will be taken away by CPS, since you obviously brainwashed her with outdated anti-LGBT bigotry and hatred.
“I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.”
“Via their website, Target announced, “[W]e welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. …Everyone deserves to feel like they belong.””
I would suggest that Target needs to explain exactly how sharing a bathroom with a male makes a female feel like they, the female, belongs?
After a while he escalated to breaking into several homes,raping the female occupant,taking photos of them and stealing their underwear.And *then* he raped,tortured and murdered a woman under his command (an Air Force "airman") and also a woman whose house he would pass on his way to and from the air base.
His name is Russell Williams.
It's the kind of thing that might make the lawyers representing Target think twice.
Call Target at 800-440-0680.
No kidding. Bet they paid for it.
And that is why this country is lost.
There are plenty of good reasons for social conservatives to boycott Target. This is just the latest one.
My local Kroger store has 2 gender neutral, side by side bathrooms and has been that way since the store opened. I HATE IT with a passion and will go home before I will use them. I went in there once when the store opened and the toilet seat was up, urine on the bowl. My husband and son get away with that at home, but I can’t deal with a strangers uncleanliness. I prefer my public restrooms as women only. Men are gross.
That would’t work. Men suffering from transgender mental illness want to be seen as equals to real women IN the common area of the women’s bathroom. Floor to ceiling walls and individual cubicles would be instantly rejected as a rejection of their claim to be 100% real women and that would be micro aggressive.
It the writer a target employee? lol
: )
Just remember where this all started. It was when Affirmative Action became a no-no and morphed instead to diversity.
The lie was spread that diversity is good and we need it, so now we have to have all diverse cultures and beliefs accepted into our lives, no matter how deviant to make us ‘better’.
Don’t believe it? Here’s an example of the person who ramrodded Target’s recent decision to allow men in women’s bathrooms. She is a community organizer who sits on the White House’s Council for Community Solutions Comunityhttps://corporate.target.com/press/leadership/laysha-l-ward
As the left loves to say - "It's a learning experience".
Let the stockholders see the declining profits when management panders to less than 1% of the population.
“There are plenty of good reasons for social conservatives to boycott Target. This is just the latest one.”
Their actions to strip me of my CC is enough for me to stay away.
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