In A Wal-Mart Kind Of Hell

SF Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 | Mark Morford, confused liberal

[presidio9]

Stop. You've found it. This is the place. Americana HQ. Patriotism in a giant tin bucket. This is where souls recoil, children wail, dreams die.

This is Wal-Mart. The glorious consumer mecca, the epic wonderland/wasteland of prefab landfill merch, not only the world's largest and most powerful retailer and the most aggressive snarling frightening happy-place marketer and quite possibly the most hideously overlit soul-draining monster empire you will ever know in your entire lifetime, but also the very multibillion-dollar pseudo-Christian kingdom that censors their offerings and refuses to sell certain music CDs and bans "risqu

[The Iguana]

Gee - makes me almost want to shop there.

[Windsong]

So I take it you a...gulp..Xena fan eh? Give us back Herc for pete's sake. The lesbian stuff grows old!

[Xenalyte]

I had nothing to do with any of that. Xen is quite hetero, although (ahem) inexperienced in that regard.

[Dog Gone]

You should inform Wal-Mart that they can make millions by following your legal advice. Be sure and let us know what they say.

[finnman69]

Wal-Mart manipulates the culture. They represent a type of cultural myopia and a prefab brand of hollow sexless Americana and a value system that does nothing to promote any core conviction you genuinely care about, and censorship decisions like theirs are a threat to all that is good and sexy and alternative and righteous and naked and I don't care how cheesy sexist frat-boy stupid Maxim magazine is, its message isn't 1/100th as poisonous or dangerous as much of the deleterious junk Wal-Mart hawks, the AFA lifestyle they endorse.

I agree that Walmart covering up covers of Cosmo and other Women's magazines is ridiculous. Maxim and Stuff are sort of racy, and if Walmart chooses not to display them, that's their right but it's also my right to shop elsewhere.

But for Miss Morford to judge that his brand of soulless hedonistic snobby vegetarian bisexual world is better than Walmart's attempt to better reflect mainstream America, Miss Morford is as usual preaching to the butt slamming NAMBLA choir boys.

[finnman69]

Maybe Morford would feel better about it if Wal Mart would start selling dildos and eze-glide lube. Morford hates everything that isn't a buns-up, sex-obsessed, alternative-lifestyle, psuedo-utopian circle-jerk.

And butt plugs...god forbid..don't forget the neon green butt plugs!

[Pietro]

"Gee Markie, why don't you shop somewhere else?"

It's not about shopping it's about Ms. Moford feeling oh so superior to the drudges and riff raff that do shop there. had the Ms. actually entered a real wal-mart she/he would have discovered that at least 75% of the public there on any given day are most likely democrats.

this moron qualifies as a true "elitist" by being so far out of touch w/ regualr people.

[Impy]

Did you know Target is owned by Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN)?