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Protest planned over jewelry store's controversial billboard
News 13 ^ | March 24, 2017 | Evan Donovan

Posted on 03/27/2017 8:00:20 AM PDT by kevcol

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) - A North Carolina jewelry store is getting lots of attention over its newest billboard.
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Several people contacted News 13 to say they were upset about the billboard.

Ellen Perry is one of them. Perry is a literature and humanities teacher at UNCA and AB Tech. She is planning a protest outside the store on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.

Perry told News 13 she's supported by the Women's Rights Committee, Stronger Together WNC North, and the Equal Rights Amendment Committee within Indivisible Asheville.

Perry said she will continue to organize protests until the billboard is taken down.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlos.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: asheville; billboard; snowflakes; unca
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“You can throw those kinds of rocks at me any time. The bigger the better.”

Just what I was thinking!!


61 posted on 03/27/2017 9:30:59 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: KC_Lion

Oh, for the love of Pete. SJW’s are making an effort to kill any semblance of good humour on Earth.


62 posted on 03/27/2017 9:32:43 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: mom of young patriots

Florida?


63 posted on 03/27/2017 9:41:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SkyDancer
AKA sausage fingers.

That'll leave a mark.
64 posted on 03/27/2017 9:42:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: RegulatorCountry
I’m beginning to sense the sours of Miss Perry’s upset. Look at her ring finger.

Yep, no grapes visible.

65 posted on 03/27/2017 9:43:03 AM PDT by thulldud
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

You are 100% correct - my kids friends who all in their early 30’s are always offended by something. They are never happy - they wake up offended or determined to find something that will offend them -


66 posted on 03/27/2017 9:44:53 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Ken H

Winner.

(Although it’s carat)


67 posted on 03/27/2017 9:49:18 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: thulldud

I don’t know how that got in there, fat fingering the touch screen plus autocorrect I guess. Oddly apropos though, isn’t it.


68 posted on 03/27/2017 10:00:23 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: kevcol

Femunists; the perpetually offended.


69 posted on 03/27/2017 10:11:53 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: SkyDancer

“Every beauty should get stoned”.


70 posted on 03/27/2017 10:28:34 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru

That’s a good one. A couple of my GF’s tell me I should wear a ‘wolf’ ring.


71 posted on 03/27/2017 10:32:12 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: tuffydoodle

Like this?
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor
Lonnie Donegan
Oh me oh my oh you
Whatever shall I do?
Hallelujah,
The question is peculiar
I’d give a lot of dough
If only I could know
The answer to my question
Is it yes or is it no?
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor
on the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says don’t chew it,
Do you swallow it in spite?
Can you catch it on your tonsils,
Can you heave it left & right?
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor
on the bedpost overnight?
Here comes a blushing bride
The groom is by her side
Up to the altar,
Just as steady as Gibraltar
The groom has got the ring
And it’s such a pretty thing
But as he slips it on her finger
The choir begins to sing:
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor
on the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says don’t chew it,
Do you swallow it in spite?
Can you…


72 posted on 03/27/2017 10:36:38 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: KC_Lion

73 posted on 03/27/2017 10:59:47 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: kevcol

Thanks for posting this. There’s another article today in the Asheville Citizen Times, which is a Gannet rag so no live link can be posted.

The rant is from a Gender professor at a local university who goes through all the PC reasons this billboard was a bad idea. Quite funny in a ridiculously absurd way.

Dead Gannet Link, add an “h” to the front of it so you get an http syntax: ttp://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/2017/03/25/throwing-rocks-girls-isnt-funny-laura-wright-spicer-greene-jewelry-billboard/99623602/


74 posted on 03/27/2017 11:04:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: kevcol

That billboard and the protest is going to be very lucrative for the jewelry store. Now they are getting a ton of free advertising.


75 posted on 03/27/2017 11:04:17 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: TADSLOS

“You go, girl. I’m sure Spicer Greene Jewelers appreciates the free publicity.”

Spicer Green Jewelers is the 2nd generation at this location in Downtown Asheville. The original for decades before was called Wick & Greene and was a traditional, stuffy, high end and high class joint. The kids bought out the parents and said they’d take a different route. Indeed they have!


76 posted on 03/27/2017 11:06:53 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I hope they succeed beyond their wildest dreams and throw a cubic zirconia rock at the lib bimbo as a fake outrage consolation prize.


77 posted on 03/27/2017 11:24:50 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
I’m beginning to sense the sours of Miss Perry’s upset. Look at her ring finger.

From the looks of her I'd guess she's a fugitive from a Smithfield hog farm.

79 posted on 03/27/2017 1:28:09 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: SoFloFreeper

Austin, Texas. I guess that is no surprise, though. We draw homosexuals like iron shavings toward a magnet.


80 posted on 03/27/2017 5:15:34 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
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