It shows that businesses don’t care about the issue so the social pressure to change isn’t relevent to most people’s lives. It’s not going to keep jobs from coming to the state basically. To which I reply why would modern business care about centuries old labor abuse when it doesn’t care about current labor abuse?
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I’m not spending money on any of those things either.
Spells are a thing for some people?
Right? What was the intended purpose of sharing that little anecdote? When I talk to CEOs we never talk about anything important to you? I only talk to CEOs? CEOs and I never share your concerns about anything? I am totally out of touch, like CEOs I speak to?
Of course they’re not going to take it down—to do so would operate as a tacit admission that it is a symbol of racism, hatred, and oppression. And while we may all agree that that is exactly what it is (a symbol of racism, hatred, and oppression), Their argument and position is that it is a race-neutral symbol of…
White people exhaust me. I....ugh.
“You know, the Confederate flag is just a symbol of States’ Rights.
The Confederate flag is really about ethics in journalism.
The thing that trips me out, the flag that Southern people seem so enamored with isn’t even the confederate flag (at least not the official one). The flag most people think of when they hear confederate flag is the southern rebel flag flown by a group of masked pro-slavery confederates who eventually became the KKK…
OUR HISTORY IS SO IMPORTANT HOW DARE YOU INFRINGE ON OUR RIGHT TO HONOR AND RESPECT IT.......wait, all you black people are still hung up on slavery?! That was soooooo long ago OMG get over it. (said with all of the sarcasm)
its like you almost missed the point
This is basically the thesis of Arlene Stein’s “The Stranger Next Door,” a great study on homophobia in rural America that I used to teach in my Sociology of Sexualities classes. She did a lot of research into Dobson and the FRC, as well as what was happening on the ground in places where gay rights were under attack.…
dwelling in their own suburban insecurities.
I’m convinced that people like those in One Million Moms are so frustrated with their own oppression that they hate anybody else who’s not free to live their lives. That’s why they want to impose their ideas of morality on everybody else. Misery loves company.
“I hate that sensual, loving, beautiful caress in this commercial. It makes me think of these two beautiful naked women in bed, sinning.”
Went to their FB page.
It is absolutely cynical on the part of the advertisers, but I’m not that mad about it. To me, any exposure or normalization is good. I agree though, it would be nice to see some male couples with kids. At this point tho, anything is progress.
I’ll write him a song and give him the copyright if I can find enough words to rhyme with orange dead muskrat toupe