targets
I am needing to buy something at Target. But I do not know if I should be boycotting. The problem there is I do not know what message a boycott represents. I see a declaration that you should not patronize Target because they have caved to the anti-trans people somewhere, and doing so is like ripping away Menorah displays during Hanukkah, and I sure do not want to participate in Trans Genocide. At the same time see the story of jackasses feeling “emboldened” to harass Target employees — and I have seen one proud YouTube chest thumper post his trolling game — lying beyond what I hear the Babylon Bee podcasters say on calling up Target and saying they are not shopping there this month.
Back in the day, Tipper Gore — currently separated wife of former vice president All Gore — headed a task force and move against racy rock music lyrics — the “Raise PG Kids in an X Rated Culture” thing. Her cause was frought with horrors, but has sympathetic sense on it. The feather which lead to the explosion against Target was something about transgendered merchandise sold there being from the same clothing dedigners as Satanic fashion things. A curious message, the Satanists — no real belief system, just performative trolling of Christians. How many 80s heavy metal bands are getting promoted by the clothing designer and the boycotting of Target, I am curious to know.
I note that I am at a coffee place — that obvious one who used to be located on every third block but is now downsized to every fourth block and that is billed as a sign of the city’s decay. A year ago it was decked obsequiously in what I gather is the latest design for the pride flag — aesthetically kind of mildly annoying — for about six weeks. This year it is quietly absent. I do not know if I should tell it to anyone. I do not know if anyone will care to know.
I recall a goofy YouTube poster highlighted by always working to be even handed Jon Stewart raging righteously against Chic Fil iL on location. I note that in reminder of the headline on “emboldened” yahoos “harassing Target employees”. Indeed, I passed by a YouTube blip chumping his chest on such whom I simply offer the question — ” Huh?”
GOP support for gay marriage has dropped — and I will say that makes perfect sense. There is a slippery slope in their minds that has been confirmed — justify yourself by raging the next battle and filling new definitions, new norms established, and no acknowledgement that such has happened — just an a-historic call out against a “shocking” sudden increase of legislation trying to draw points in the new map. Herein lay a crux of irritation — the line “do not care what adult does, but –” with the line being drawn out of how much kids jump through phases and seek novelty is tough to hold and a skepticism on permanent alterations — is tough to hold. I have seen the declaration “Sorry Liberals, there are no genders” — the wokier of woke headlines beyond your problem with “xi”.