HA! target can pound sand..
I’m betting Target claims they can’t afford it.
I started my Target boycott when they banned the Salvation Christmas bell ringers.
I’ve seen a solution in San Francisco that would probably work anywhere: gender-neutral bathrooms. The stalls are in fact individual rooms (walled off from floor to ceiling), with a shared area with sinks & mirrors. A father could accompany his daughter and ensure her safety (while guarding the entrance to the “room”), and companies could halve the space set aside for bathrooms (though there would be longer lines if just one set was kept). No urinals or public lewdness, and one could probably place cameras in the shared area without privacy/peeping issues - do your business in the “rooms”, and the rest is basically public unrestricted space.
Makes this whole issue moot.
Apparently Target forgot about what happened to J.C. Penney after it promoted the gay lifestyle. And what happened to Penney’s CEO who was responsible for this fiasco?
Because people and companies that think like Target won't acknowledge there's any danger in this policy to protect women and girls from.
Translation: Forget it. You can’t do anything. Go away. (This message sponsored by Corporate America.)
Since boycotts are ineffective and tend to cause the other side to have buy ins the above approach is a good one.
The overall point that we lose effectiveness when we withdraw is well made
Downsize all restrooms. Make them small...one person operations…with the business deciding how many one person restrooms it needs to satisfy customer demands and where they are located. Customers can wait in line.
FUGovernment
FUSocialengineers
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!
FUTarget
just use one bathroom and then go into the next one, tell them you’re just finding your way on the life journey.
Moms will take young children of either gender into the bathroom in order to safeguard them as well as keeping them from making a mess. Fathers OTOH send their tiny little daughters into the ladies room alone, I’ve seen it many times.
Maybe a solution for dads would be to stop at a restaurant or some such place with a single stall bathroom before going to Target.
CP, you adopt your plan and I will adopt mine.
This reads like it was written by Target.
I still think the only *practical* alternatives are not “soft” ones. That is, only liberals and fools think that staff meetings, counseling, and hand holding, while at their strongest to “deplore” the evil acts of evil people, actually accomplishes *anything*. They does not.
So what are the “hard” alternatives?
1) Target needs to install surveillance cameras in its restrooms, assuredly monitored *only* by security personnel appropriate to that gender. And to prosecute any obscene, indecent or harassing behavior by those in their restrooms. And restrooms must be posted according to these criteria.
2) Prohibit children under the age of 18 from entering their restrooms, unless accompanied by an adult parent or guardian. And if there is no available adult parent or guardian, the store will provide them a chaperon of the appropriate gender, to help insure them that they are not set upon by a sexual predator.
Of course, both of these things are far more tangible than what Target has done so far. But it gives Target the opportunity to “put their money where their mouth is”, instead of just risking the lives of their customers.
And unless one or both of these means are carried out, then Target should be financially liable for any harm that comes to someone using their restroom.
The boycott war is neither persuasive nor effective...
Wow is that wrong!!
been working great for the other side in changing governors’ minds.
I suggest all men simply start using the ladies room.