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Don't Boycott Target Over Transgender Bathroom Issue: Here's a Better Alternative
Christian Post ^ | 04/23/2016 | Carmen Fowler LaBerge

Posted on 04/24/2016 5:28:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: kearnyirish2

“The stalls are in fact individual rooms (walled off from floor to ceiling), with a shared area with sinks & mirrors.”

I recently attended a race on a cold winter day where there were 40 or so portolets inside of a tent with a shared hand washing station. This worked well for this situation as there were enough people coming and going and the tent was was fairly open-air enough to make it safe.

No thanks to going into an remote, enclosed area in stores or buildings (or locker rooms!) with men next to women in shared areas with sinks and mirrors.


81 posted on 04/24/2016 6:22:39 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Doche2X2
These PC retailers do this BECAUSE people don’t refuse to shop at their stores.

I feel the root cause are the "Human Resources" departments in corporations. They push 'diversity' programs that counts skin color and genitalia above performance and results.

82 posted on 04/24/2016 6:23:58 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: bigtoona

All this brouhaha about overly complicated reasons, cautions, actions and requirements is BS.

The people that want all this are seriously disturbed people with whom the life of a child or young girl/boy should not be gambled. To do this is insanity.

As a white person, I wouldn’t go walking around mid-town Atlanta at night alone, nor would I allow one of my grand daughters to go into a Target bathroom along if they have this policy. Lunacy.

What the hell is wrong with this country. It isn’t rocket science.


83 posted on 04/24/2016 6:25:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: FatherofFive

“I feel the root cause are the “Human Resources” departments in corporations. They push ‘diversity’ programs that counts skin color and genitalia above performance and results. “

See post #69


84 posted on 04/24/2016 6:26:31 AM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: raybbr

I suggest a swarm of high dollar lawsuits by women and children who become victims of “micro-aggressions” because of Target’s cultivating an environment hostile to women and children.

Where are the mad dog, conservative members of the trial bar? A few massive class action lawsuits may cause Target to consider that cheap displays of faux morality are costly after all.


85 posted on 04/24/2016 6:28:00 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker
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To: Reddy

It is preferable to having some guy who “identifies as a woman” entering the ladies room while your unaccompanied daughter uses a stall.


86 posted on 04/24/2016 6:28:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SeekAndFind

“to insure the safety of women and girls”

What about the safety of little boys? We need to put little boys BACK into the equation!

A little boy who witnesses what looks like a woman at the urinal in a restroom could be just as traumatized as anyone.

When did we as a society decide little boys aren’t to be worried about?


87 posted on 04/24/2016 6:28:58 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: PGalt

Some people have medical issues: crohns, ulcerative colitis, explosive diarrhea, colon cancer, bladder issues, no colon, etc.
These people could have difficulty with waiting in line.


88 posted on 04/24/2016 6:29:06 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: SeekAndFind

This is BS, boycotts work. The other side proves it all the time. Our side has never actually done it an organized persistent way.

And it cannot be an invisible one of two people here and there. It has to be loud, visible with people marching in front of stores causing as much of a stinkand pain as possible. The way the other side does it.

It has to be an Alynskyite protest.


89 posted on 04/24/2016 6:29:40 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Captainpaintball

“Isn’t that what all the edgy 16 year old douchebags and fat mountain dew drinking, cheetos eating fat atheist neckbeards with fedoras like to say on twitter and reddit, and facebook, and...?

Well, let’s go by SCIENCE. Let’s get RID of the man and woman icons on bathroom doors and replace them with...

XX and XY designations. Science, bitches! “

Love it!!!


90 posted on 04/24/2016 6:30:12 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: SeekAndFind

I only had boys, but I should think that if I were the father of a young daughter that was too old to take into the mens room, and I was uncomfortable going into the ladies room with her, I would stand outside the door to see is any of these pervs tried to enter. I would mention to the pervert as he entered that if he touched my daughter that I would kill him. That seems like it would be a boycott alternative.


91 posted on 04/24/2016 6:33:40 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: Travis McGee

I’m not signing on to AFA boycott ( for other reasons)

BUT I am going to my local Target and tell them personally why I won’t be back.
We have a conservative town......I think a personal boycott would be effective because there are two huge evangelical churches around the corner from them.


92 posted on 04/24/2016 6:34:54 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: austinaero

Excellent point! But don’t you know little boys don’t really matter anymore? The current society would really rather they not display male characteristics. However, I agree with you completely.


93 posted on 04/24/2016 6:38:36 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Instead of boycotting, why not call on Target to insure the safety of women and girls while they are also providing reasonable accommodation to transgender individuals?”

This is not mainly about safety!! We are being stupid again by mainly making that argument!

It’s about not wanting to bare your body in front of people of the opposite sex. It’s about privacy, if voyeurism is against the law this will make a mockery of that law. It’s a peeping Tom haven.


94 posted on 04/24/2016 6:41:11 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Yes, and actions inside the store could be added such as loading up a shopping cart and then taking it to the entrance to the restroom and then leave the store. Repeat as necessary.


95 posted on 04/24/2016 6:41:29 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: SeekAndFind

Which is more important: Someone being uncomfortable, or someone, possibly a child, being molested in a restroom?

The only way Target can “insure the safety of women & girls” is to put guards in the restroom. This is the author’s only solution, a poor one at best. Will there be transgender guards? That would seem to be in keeping with Target’s inclusion policies.

What about the peace of mind of the vast majority of people who use Target’s restrooms? Must we ignore that to satisfy the “sensibilities” of people who fundamentally have no sensibilities, nor have any regard for the feeling of others?

The medical profession, led by Johns Hopkins, is coming around to the obvious fact that transgenderism is a mental illness, not a sane way of life. These people are sexually maladjusted & unfit to share a public restroom with anyone.

Though I haven’t entered a Target since they banned the Salvation Army kettles at Christmas, this just adds to my resolve that Target is not a fit place for decent people.

The author of this article is an cultural appeaser, whose ethics changes with the crowd. Maybe when she meets the beast in the restroom she will have a change of heart.


96 posted on 04/24/2016 6:43:25 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Airwinger

This is squishy RINO thinking.

Yes, boycott Target!!


97 posted on 04/24/2016 6:46:28 AM PDT by heye2monn
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To: MNDude

They are, above all else, desperate attention-seekers - and they couldn’t be happier that the country is up in arms over them.


98 posted on 04/24/2016 6:47:05 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Truth29

Or a bunch of men claiming to momentarily feel like women and utilizing the new policy by going into women’s restrooms AND DRESSING ROOMS.

Do this a few times and Target would retreat real quick.

But do we have the balls to do this? I know the other side does.


99 posted on 04/24/2016 6:47:14 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a typical liberal Christian. She says we should do nothing but ask Target nicely to do what they are silently already refusing to do (provide separate restrooms for those with confused gender identity). Target is activist for gay/transgender and everything unholy and there is no way to deal with activists like this except hit them where it hurts. Dumb woman. She would probably also have us write letters to ISIS asking them to release the people they have enslaved and are torturing.


100 posted on 04/24/2016 6:49:49 AM PDT by applpie
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