Main door of Macy's Department Store in downtown Boston. Note the display
window at bottom left.
Posted on 06/06/2006 8:07:05 PM PDT by Coleus
Main door of Macy's Department Store in downtown Boston. Note the display
window at bottom left.
View of the display window from the street, clearly and blatantly celebrating
"gay pride week" with two homosexual men.
Very bizarre. One mannequin is wearing what looks like some
of rainbow skirt. And when was the last time you saw male store
mannequins with breasts like those? What's that all about?
Call as many of these numbers below as you have time for. Leave a message if you can''t get through, but keep trying until you get to a person. And continue calling every day until you know this is taken down. (There are also email addresses below.)
Your message to Macy's is simple: Take this display down immediately.
Don't put up with any double-talk, or excuses. Macy's seems to think they can offend you with impunity. They may tell you they'll write you a letter about this. Tell them you're not interested in a letter -- or any "explanations" of their position -- just take this down immediately. And if you're in downtown Boston we encourage you to personally visit the Macy's Boston office, which is in the lower level (just below street level) in the store, just behind the Juniors Department.
Even if you don't live in Massachusetts this is important.
Mr. Terry Lundgren, President if Macy's
(New York City)
800-264-0069
[Even if they won't put you directly to his office, make sure that whoever you talk to gets him your message loud and clear.]Linda Stahley
Manager, Boston Macy's
[She'd clearly not want to talk to you, but definitely call anyway!]
617-357-3164James Gray
President, Macy's East Coast Operations
Executive Offices, 151 W. 34th St.
New York, NY 10001
212-695-4400Macy's Presidential Complaints
PO Box 8215
Mason, OH 45040
ExecOffice@fds.comCustomer Service Office:
800-289-6229
Hours: Monday - Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
customerservice@macys.comMacy's East Coast Public Relations (New York City):
Elina Kazan
[Let her know that this is BAD public relations!]
212-494-4624Special Events Coordinator, Boston office:
Robin Rydell
[She has acknowledged to us that it was her decision to put up the "gay pride" window display!]
617-357-2727
(From Bay Windows homosexual newspaper, 2004) Here's a photo from the Boston Pride
Parade of (we're not kidding) women who have had their breasts surgically removed, and
are marching as bare-chested "men." This is what Macy's is celebrating!
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Mental illness. Whoever did that surgery should lose his/her license.
"It's posts like this that show where we differ so drastically.
First, who cares what a urban department store does.
Second, since the very first indoor mall was opened in London, the mall culture has been heavily influenced by gays lesbians trannies etc.
Third, you are talking about the fashion world, if you don't want to promote gay commerce, go wear homespun canvas britches.
Fourth, It's quite obvious that the display designer took a "misses" manequin torso and added all men's body parts. funny in a juvenile way and nothing original.
Fifth, Private commerce. Macy's puts displas up like that, in front of one of the "man refuges" where wives/gf's/moms/daughters drop off their men to go shopping, and Macy's will lose out in the long term. Each article in that display is now "gay", like pink popped collar polo shirts. All going to liquidators at the end of season.
Now, I'd say having to explain to a child why the daddy mannequin has boobs can be uncomfortable, the world won't revolve around protecting the parent's right to not be offended by that display."
Just another post about how we are supposed to accept this stuff. It's a little like pollution in a pond - you only have to accept 5% pollution this year. Next year, it's not a big deal to add another 5%, and do the same the year after that...
I read that, and five minutes later was hungry again...
"We have no right not to be wronged while it is wrong to deny a right, am I wrong?"
The problem here is conflating wrong, which is a subjective node on the interstitial good/bad lattice, with right, which attempts to concretize integral activity that is inferior to preternatural and therefore condign.
As can be seen, the apples resemble the oranges as a street brick does an Ex-Lax rectangle. While the simile holds, the extended results could be messy and unable to support most trolleys.
Well, that's a shame; a commercial entity backing down in the face of an agitated fringe group. The next time I read of censoring cartoons so as not to give offense to Muslim sensibilities, I'll try to remember it's a good thing.
J Leno made mention of IKEA in some context to gays, last night. I didn't know what he was talking about.
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Exactly right.
(sigh)....I am so freakin' tired of this crap.
Macy's owns Foley's. >>
Where are they located?
What do you expect? Only gay people and women shop at Macy's anyhow. No real man would be caught dead in the place. >>>
No real man likes to shop in the first place.
Guess you wont be shopping at Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA then eh?
It it not like I shop at Macy's.
All over Texas. I noticed there was a follow up story today about how Macy's was taking down their display due to the controversy.
I do. I'm sick of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender idiots calling attention to their sex lives. Straight people don't feel the need to have a Heterosexual pride week and flaunt their sex lives.
If it bothers you, dont shop at macys.
Don't worry, I won't. Macy's just made a HUGE boo-boo. They just bought out Foley's and don't need to be offending 98% of the heterosexual population. The fact that they are sucking up to gays and risked offending the majority of the populace is one STUPID move on their part.
Huh? Maybe at Harvard, but MIT has a sizable conservative Christian population. The pro-life group and evangelical Christian groups are very active. The students in Christian groups are just generaly quiet about their conservatism because nobody wants the trouble that comes with saying you are against gay marriage etc. and have better things to do. For one thing, I was a year ago one of them before I moved out of that forsaken state after I graduated. I haven't met a Christian conservative at MIT that is gay and I know most of them.
Be that as it may...
Sex sells, as you must know. Kink is on display in every major departmental store... in a state like MA, its only natural that itll include kink that caters to local tastes.
The ACLU's anti-Religious Hypocrisy
The American Thinker ^ | 4/10/2006 | Hillel Stavis
Posted on 04/10/2006 10:27:05 PM EDT by Utah Girl
For nearly a hundred years the crèche sat in front of the Balch Elementary School in South Norwood, Massachusetts. Then in 2004, Sarah Wunsch, attorney for the Massachusetts branch of the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the display depicting the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem manger, violated separation of church and state. and its presence on the grounds of a public school sent a message that the schools endorse Christianity. ‘’Kids being driven to school or being dropped off see it and think it’s part of school,” she said.
Eventually, the ACLU prevailed, the crèche was removed and relocated nearby to private land.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612813/posts
So this Sarah Wunsch from Mass ACLU is pretty darn selective about what she considers bigotry.
No doubt, sex sells. But it's BIG news when a major department store advertises and promotes the decadant and x-rated activites going on in wholesome towns across America.
Believe me, we're sick of the gay, bi and transgendered lifestyles being crammed down our throats (no pun intended).
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