[rlmorel]

Do you do the homework on all companies you buy products from? Your furniture in your house, your washing machine, your television?

How do you do it? Do you take the time to know the entire corporate structure of all of them, CEO, VP, etc. so you know who is a homosexual at all those companies, and at which positions in the hierarchy?

Or is it only certain companies? Do others get a pass from you if a homosexual is their top VP just because it isn’t as convenient for you to know? Just saying...if you go into Staples to buy a pad of paper, do you pull out your phone to search the Internet for company information?

I hope you aren’t offended, I am curious. I want to know how you do it. The rest of us may wish to be as conscientious as you are, but to be honest, we can’t figure out how you do it.

[dayglored]

Interesting, Rimorel; I wrote pretty much the same comment/question to Battle just now, before I read yours. So I tossed mine aside and will add my small voice to yours. I hope that Battle will see fit to report on the research they've done into the private sexual lives of the scores of corporate CEOs, COOs (Cook's former position), VPs, etc. whose products he/she buys.

I have friends who are vegan (very strict vegetarian) and who spend inordinate amounts of time researching the ingredients and processes of the food they eat, and also the politics of the companies who make the products they eat. They won't patronize companies they haven't researched. So it's not unreasonable to think that Battle may have done the research on sexuality.

It seems to me that avoidance of the products of a company because a top manager is homosexual, applied generally, carries a risk of not being able to buy much of anything, unless research is done rigorously -- and regularly, since management positions shift and new people are being promoted into positions of higher responsibility. Or else, one would have to lead a mighty spartan lifestyle, with no appliances, furniture, food, clothing, etc. Computers and handheld devices are only the tip of the iceberg. And certainly, some of my vegan friends lead what I consider a pretty spartan lifestyle, as a result of their concern.

Perhaps, Battle, you could share your long list of corporate managers and their private sexual practices, for the general benefit of FReepers who are concerned about such things.

Like Rimorel, I don't wish to offend; I am impressed, and wish only to learn.