It's encouraging to see that
not everyone in post-America is on board with hatred for the way God designed the universe:
Target’s stock price and its favorability among shoppers are crashing as the public rebukes the retail giant for ignoring their vigorous protest against mixed-sex changing rooms and bathrooms.
The company’s stock was two cents shy of $84 on August 19, when it revealed it would not allow shoppers to use single-sex bathrooms or changing rooms. Instead, all rooms were opened up to anyone claiming to be of either sex. As of 4.00 p.m. Friday, the stock had dropped almost $4.50,
down to $79.50.
That’s a huge loss of 5 percent in stock value, costing shareholders roughly $2.5 billion in company value.
In between those two dates, more than one million people had signed
a boycott petitionsponsored by the American Family Association. Public opinion also
shifted strongly in favor of single-sex bathrooms.
The damage to Target’s favorability is also being tracked by YouGov’s BrandIndex service.
By April 27, “The percentage of consumers who would consider buying items at Target the next time they want to go shopping at a department store dropped from 42% to 38% over the past two weeks,” YouGov reported April 29. That’s a 10 percent drop, likely fueled by social-media conversations via Facebook and various news sites.
Worse, YouGov showed that Target was hit by a 40 percent drop — from roughly 19 percent down to 11 percent — when consumers were indirectly asked if they planned to buy at Target. “When you are in the market next to purchase items in this particular category, from which of the following brands would you consider purchasing?” YouGov asked.
YouGov also reported customers were hearing bad news about the company. When asked, “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?” the positive “Buzz” score of 19 fell down to 11. The score fell by 10 points among men but 12 points among women, YouGov reported.
In a nation that has myriad symptoms of total madness, this is wonderful to see.
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ReplyDeleteTransgender does not necessarily mean transsexual and there lyeth the confusion. Would you want Kaitlin Jenner coming into the men's rooms? How about Christine Jorgensen? Rene Richards? If they have surgically created vaginas, where do they belong? If they are just hiding a penis under a dress, I know where they belong, though they might get the livin' shit kicked out of them by even a pacifist like me. What does the NC law say, that what we used to call transvestites who only make themselves up to look like women can go potty in women's rooms? To me, that's not right. It should read, go with the plumbing you have now, not what you are born with. Anyhow, another issue blown way out of proportion in your wretched post-America.
ReplyDeleteThe crux of the issue, the reason it is not being blown out of proportion, is that it represents the next point on the slippery slope after homosexuality in our culture's indulgence of this notion that one can invent oneself and make everyone else buy into that notion, under threat of punishment by the state. It is of a piece with the "gender fluidity" being taught in our universities, and the social engineering that is eroding our military strength.
ReplyDeleteI looked it up. Those who have had their sex changed either on their bodies or on their birth certificates can still use the restroom prescribed by their replaced or displaced body parts. Just like everywhere else and that was never a big deal that I know of unless someone tried to assault someone somewhere sometime. Renee Richards, Christine Jorgensen and other transSEXUALS have always been allowed to be called and be women in our country as far as I know. They faced discrimination, but that's the price of taking a stand and becoming a woman.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if I am a clueless cow for thinking this is blown out of proportion. I do know it was not right to jail homosexuals like we did for centuries. If you now possess a penis at this point in time, you use the men's rest room. If you do not have a penis, you use the woman's room. Do you think such surgeries should be outlawed throughout the land to regain God's blessings? Then you gotta go back a bit. On September 24, 1951, surgeons at Gentofte Hospital in Copenhagen performed an orchiectomy on Jorgensen. In a letter to friends on October 8, 1951, she referred to how the surgery affected her:
ReplyDelete"As you can see by the enclosed photos, taken just before the operation, I have changed a great deal. But it is the other changes that are so much more important. Remember the shy, miserable person who left America? Well, that person is no more and, as you can see, I'm in marvelous spirits."
In November 1952, 13 months after her first procedure, doctors at Copenhagen University Hospital performed a penectomy. In Jorgensen's words, "My second operation, as the previous one, was not such a major work of surgery as it may imply."
She then returned to the United States and eventually obtained a vaginoplasty when the procedure became available there. The vaginoplasty was performed under the direction of Dr. Angelo, with Harry Benjamin as a medical adviser.
Jorgensen chose the name Christine in honor of Dr. Hamburger. She became a spokesperson for transsexual and transgender people.
Damned Commie Danes!!
ReplyDeleteUnlike today, press coverage of Jorgensen was mixed. Caitlyn Jenner has received adoring press notices. That wasn’t always true for Christine Jorgensen. The New York Times’ tone tended to be respectful -- “conservative,” in Jorgensen’s quaint description -- while Time magazine, to cite one example, was highly skeptical. Newsweek reported that “as a castrated male,” she was viewed by many Americans as a transsexual and “a homosexual deviant.”
ReplyDeleteJorgensen was the punch line of the kind of jokes most respectable Americans would refrain from aiming at Caitlyn Jenner. Some were mean, others clever. Barry Gray, a 1950s radio talk show pioneer, repeated one of latter type when Christine appeared on his show: “George Jorgensen went abroad, and came back a broad.” More at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/03/jenners_trail_was_blazed_by_christine_jorgensen_126839.html
In 1970, during a hard-fought, three-way Senate race in New York, Vice President Spiro Agnew characterized liberal Sen. Charles Goodell as “the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party.” This was not intended as a compliment, either, and Jorgensen requested an apology from the famously combative (and corrupt, as it turns out) vice president. She did not get one.
ReplyDeleteCaitlyn Jenner’s emergence this week has kindled similar impulses in at least one prominent Republican. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of the growing platoon of 2016 GOP presidential candidates, made light of the subject in a February talk to religious broadcasters.
“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in P.E.,” Huckabee said. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I'd rather shower with the girls today.’”
One gay rights organization termed those comments “vile,” which is obviously an overstatement. But most Americans would find them clueless—as they have for six decades.
more at Ibid
The reason Jorgensen was controversial was because Americans at that point knew that wanting to be the other gender so badly you'd get surgically altered was weird. And let us remember that she was still a he. Had the DNA he was born with until the day he died.
ReplyDeleteAnd while jailing homosexuals is egregious, so is persecuting Christians for pointing out that homosexuality is a sin, or marginalizing and attempting to silence those who point out that, from a statistical standpoint, it's abnormal.
I can't believe I have to point out something so obvious as the momentum with which all this is being foisted on our society. And transgenders are an even smaller percentage of our population than homosexuals. Yet we indulge the first little inkling that a five-year-old may have resentment against being the gender he or she was born as. We have Facebook offering fifty - count 'em - fifty gender categories that users can identify as. That's insane. That's living in an alternate reality. There are two genders, and nature designed their reproductive organs to fit together. A very tiny minority is forcing the rest of us to keep quiet as it foists utter fictions on us.
Enough. I am so proud of the Target boycotters.
OK, make it a big deal then. I don't think it is, Bruce, Target and all you other crazy boycotters. Boycott your asses off!
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