Posted on 04/30/2016 7:34:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When retail giant Target announced their new policy of allowing anyone to use whichever bathroom they wish in their stores it was completely predictable that a firestorm was going to follow… and boy howdy, has it ever. While the SJW crowd cheered the decision, realists around the country signaled their collective displeasure with a boycott of the store spearheaded by The American Family Association. In a relatively short time, more than one million people had signed on to the protest. (Fox News)
More than one million people have decided they will no longer buy their Nutter Butters or Wet Wipes at Target.
The American Family Association launched a boycott of the nation’s second largest retailer a week ago – over Target’s corporate policy allowing men who identify as women to use the bathrooms and fitting rooms of their choosing.
“We believe that everyone – every team member, every guest, and every community – deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally,” the company wrote in a statement. “Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination.”
Is the boycott having any sort of effect in such a short period of time? These things are often hard to gauge, but in this case there seems to be a strong hint provided in the fact that the company’s stock has taken a precipitous drop during the same period. (Daily Caller)
On Friday, the shares of Target Corporation Common Stock (TGT) fell 2.52 percent in one day, according to recent reports. In addition since April 19th, the day they announced the new policy, the stock went from a share value of $84.14 to $79.27 per share. That’s a drop of 5.8 percent in 10 days.
The Family Policy institute says they estimate that to be a loss to the company of $2.5 billion dollars…
As previously reported, in addition to signing the “boycott pledge” the group is encouraging people to post on Target’s Facebook page that they are upset about the new policy.
While I’m not generally a fan of boycotts as a means of enacting political change, this one is understandable and, as I said above, predictable. I also find the focus of the protest message to be a bit off the mark as well, while understanding the concerns being raised. Opponents of this misguided policy at Target continue to stress the danger of sexual predators using the open bathroom access as an invitation to perpetrate assaults. While I suppose it’s possible, it also seems unlikely that a determined predator would allow a gender designation sign on a door stop them from pursuing their victims, and incidents of such attacks seem to be rare. These scenarios are less disconcerting than cases where women are forced to share locker rooms and showers with men, opening the door to creepy voyeurs breaking out their cell phone cameras and worse.
Running the debate immediately to these worst case scenarios overshadows the underlying argument to be made. What about the simple concept of propriety and privacy which any civilized person should accept? Women should not be forced to use the bathroom, change in a locker room or take a shower in front of a strange man. Is that really so difficult to understand or express in a public policy statement?
This isn’t the first time Target has dipped a toe into the troubled “gender identity” waters. Last summer we talked about the store’s new policy of “de-gendering” the toys and clothing aisles so as not to offend anyone. The sad part of all this is that this stupid, pointless battle (which was clearly going to affect the company’s sales no matter which way they went on it) was completely unnecessary. Just as with public, government facilities, there is a simple (if still costly) solution, assuming one believes that a solution is required. In fact San Francisco (of all places) hit on the idea very early in the national debate. If a company or public facility truly feels that they must jump into this entire “degendering” fiasco, then in addition to traditional facilities for each gender, simply add on a third, gender neutral bathroom or other facility. Then anyone going in can be informed that there is no gender requirement for occupancy and, likewise, the owner/management offers no guarantee as to the gender of the other patrons you may encounter in there. Alternately, when new facilities are constructed, put in multiple, single user facilities and just label them as “shower” or “bathroom” or “changing room.”
Problem solved. Then, if someone wants to insist that they must be allowed in public facilities with people of the opposite gender, their true agenda is exposed. (You will be made to not only care, but to participate.) This is an important aspect of the conversation which the SJW all to often succeeds in suppressing. We aren’t having a conversation here about discrimination or the suppression of anyone else’s rights. Dress however you wish. And for that matter, the vast majority of us aren’t going to care one way or the other what you call yourself despite the obvious denial of basic genetics and science on display. The real motivation of the SJW is to force such twisted claims on everyone else and mandate their participation even when it comes at the expense of the rights of the majority.
The inmates of prison planet have had enough. The depraved establishment is pushing too far now. Peak leftism is its own cure.
Actually I think your gross underestimation of how upset people are about this is delusional. It's not going away, but millions of people are, and they're not coming back.
The author of this screed seems unfamiliar with the terms "soft target", or "low hanging fruit".
Target had no reason to enact this policy.
Transgendered "women" would have continued to use the women's room.
Lesbians would have continued to use the women's room.
Bisexuals would have used the same bathroom they always have
The WHOLE issue is about pervy heterosexual men going into the women's room. Period.
I guess that Target literally WANTS perverts in the women's room.
Who otherwise cared?
I often ask liberals this:
So are you OK with a man sitting in his car outside of your daughter's elementary school choking his chicken?
No! Ew! How dare you.That's a crime!
OK, but then why are you just peachy with the VERY SAME GUY jerking off and filming your daughter INSIDE her school, or at Target, or wherever?
You know, I could actually believe the precipitous action and the unforgiveness. I’ve seen enough of that shoved back in my own face when I have pleaded for a comprehensive view to be taken.
This is part of the instant gratification internet addicted nation that we are about. They offered a pledge to boycott — not even a petition with an ultimatum, which would involve a patience factor. Tappety tappety tap tap tap BAM and there you are, on the short attention span of the average American. Easy peasy. Due respects paid for how deftly that was worked. (It could be copied. And not just by people that agree with us, however.)
While this is going on, oddly enough I find God leading me in the opposite direction. Especially, to stop getting hung up on the internet or on trends with short fuses. Snap judgments have a way of becoming unfastened, as the old adage went. There may be a rise in general “rest room awareness” with the result that molestations, etc. (even at Target) will actually go DOWN, not up.
From the article:
On Friday, the shares of Target Corporation Common Stock (TGT) fell 2.52 percent in one day
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From you:
“Walmart stock went down the tranny toilet at the same time so I don’t know if this drop is all about that issue.”
You are exactly right. On the same day Target stock dropped 2.52%, Wal-Mart stock dropped 2.96%. Nothing to do with the boycott, although I hope the boycott eventually makes their sales tank. I neither go to Target or own stock of Target.
Basic math
Number of men that will dress up as women so they can take a crap in a Target women’s bathroom, thereby making all the women and girls feel threatened.
VERSUS
Total number of men and women that will stop shopping at Target because they do not agree with a policy that makes their wives and daughters feel threatened every time they use a Target bathroom.
I have one a block away from me. I almost never shop there though I’m always shopping in that plaza area. First they compromised everyone’s credit card data. Now this. F Target.
Excellent post.
Wish all could read it.
Perhaps trumps was right when he said just leave things alone.
i dont thin he knew at the time though, that companies were gonna start letting men, dressed like men!, use the ladies room.
Shareholder derivative lawsuit time?
Target’s advisory was so broad that it seemed to invite even the latter to happen.
I’m sure it was intended as a bunch of lefty feelgood, but it got about as much thought as way too many lefty moves get, i.e. none! It was based in the gut and not in the head. To keep some kind of decorum would seem to be a minimal expectation.
I think it’s raised bathroom awareness. I thought I could see that happening even at the Chick-Fil-A I visited this afternoon!
Since Walmart stock fell worse than Target, I would call it premature at this point.
Not so sure I’d go so far as to say it’s delusional (witness JC Penny’s), but good analysis.
[[[Microsoft fell from 56.5 to 50 this past week, over 10%. Did they invoke such bathroom policies? No. Should they? Who cares?]]]
I care. Corporations are not just about dollars and cents. All too many corporations have joined the homo-fascist campaign to stomp out Christian freedoms.
We shouldn’t conflate public decency with Christian freedoms. If we do, we run the risk of overreaction by those who mostly just don’t want to be badgered to worship.
Top Twenty Sexual Crimes Committed at Target Stores
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/26/top-twenty-sexual-crimes-committed-target-stores/
Of course all of this in a painful vacuum, like what regions of the country, what time frame, how does this compare on a per capita patron basis to other retailers, etc.
I do not even shop at Target and signed my name to the petition.
Which really shouldn’t count. But games like this are de rigueur, it seems.
I have my money where my mouth is, I AM short the stock. (via puts) Not because of any boycott, but because as I said, $84 is the highest price TGT has seen in many years and is a price area that was soundly rejected in mid-2015 and that is a kind of bet I make all the time on anything that appears to me to offer that type of opportunity. I hope to make enough on my short bet to pay the higher prices for my freaking adult diapers at WMT.
Just kidding.
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