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It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all the companies and people the right-wing culture warriors have decided to boycott.
The last time we checked in on this loud minority, they were yelling at Maxim magazine for featuring “plus size” model Ashley Graham on their cover as their pick for the sexiest woman alive.
Today the perpetually offended right-wingers are railing against another woman on another magazine cover. This time it’s trans singer Kim Petras, who graces (or disgraces, if you’re a bigot) the cover of the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue along with three other women.
Naturally, there are calls for a boycott:
These calls come a day after conservative consumer culture warriors demanded another boycott, this one directed at a beer brand–Miller Light–for an ad from March that … was too respectful of women?
In case you’re keeping score, here are a few more companies that right-wingers are ostensibly boycotting.
- Anheuser-Busch (maker of Bud Light, now hated for sending a can of beer to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney with her face on it)
- Jack Daniels (had an ad with drag queens in it several years ago)
- Disney (features LGBTQ+ people in movies sometimes, along with people of color, at war with Florida governor Ron DeSantis over the Don’t Say Gay law)
- Keurig (pulled ads from Sean Hannity’s show on Fox)
- Kelloggs (issued special edition “made with pride” versions of cereal)
- Mars (because the green M&M is no longer sexy, or something like that)
- Hershey’s (something something trans influencer something)
- United Airlines (pledging to make pilot training more inclusive of women and people of color)
- Nike (for making Colin Kaepernick and Dylan Mulvaney spokespeople)
- Amazon (for supposedly banning books by right-wingers)
- The NFL (for not treating kneeling players harshly enough, and donating to social justice causes)
- Oreos (for supporting gay pride)
- Ben & Jerry’s (for being dirty hippies, or something)
- Starbucks (waging war on Christmas)
- Gillette (for making ads suggesting that toxic masculinity is bad)
There are many more. Indeed, back in February, an op-ed on the Fox News website listed no fewer than 51 companies for right-wingers to boycott for their alleged “wokeism,” including such names as Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Best Buy, Home Depot, Kohl’s, Lululemon, Macy’s, Target, Walmart, Chewy, Warby Parker, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo. (Yes, they’re boycotting both sides in the soda war.)
Another list I found, which has apparently been floating around in some form since the Trump administration, listed some 400 companies and people for right-wingers to boycott, including such companies as (deep breath) Allied Van Lines, AT&T, Bank of America, Bath & Body Works, Bigelow Tea, Celebrity Cruises, Comcast, Delta Airlines, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dow Chemical, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Funky Winkerbean (yes, the comic strip), General Motors, HBO, Hefty, Home Shopping Network, the Humane Society, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, IHOP, Land O’Lakes, Mexico (the whole country), Nieman Marcus, Proctor & Gamble, Ragu, Sears, Slimfast, Tinder, Vaseline, Volvo, Wayfair, and Yelp. And that’s just the tip of the boycott iceberg; check out the list to see some of the ridiculous reasons people are calling for boycotts.
At this point it would honestly be easier for conservative boycotters to carry around a list of the companies they aren’t supposed to be boycotting.
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@ Surplus to Requirements
As someone who used to stock shelves, partial or even empty cans are not unusual
@Surplus to Requirements; @.45:
Can confirm the occurrence of partially-filled beverage cans, particularly given the way that quality control slipped over quarantine for lack of regulations and personnel; I just emptied out a twelve-pack of Big K sparkling water in which several cans were less than full (and disposed of the contents, lest they’d become contaminated; beneath the carton was a layer of mold, suggesting leakage.)
@Full Metal Ox:
Thanks for that man. There’s a Dr. Pepper bottlery in my town & I’ve become friends socially with several of the delivery guys, whose responsibilities include stocking the local vending machines along their routes.
It’s a pain in the ass, but as .45* said, it’s not uncommon.
*@.45: I gotta ask-Abel Ferrera fan?
And about at least one thing on one of those lists.
As a Tennessean?
Jack Daniels ain’t bad, but it’s basic, as the kids say. It’s mostly for wannabe tough guys who have seen either too many bad action movies or too much bad noir & Sinatra wannabes. I have more respect for the latter than the former; at least they have good taste.
Fireball is for touristy woo woo girls in Printers’ Alley who have listened to Gretchen Wilson’s song “Redneck Woman” a few too many times.
The best kept secret at least in Middle Tennessee is George Dickel, distilled just down the road from Jack Daniels in Tullahoma, Tennessee. And I do mean just down the road. Manchester (home of Bonnaroo), Tullahoma, & Jack Daniels’ HQ of Lynchburg are within about fifteen miles of each other.
And unlike Jack Daniels’ home of Lynchburg, Tullahoma’s not a dry county, so you don’t have to leave town to buy it
@ Full Metal Ox
Oh, and the number of various drinks getting damaged and leaking during transport is significant. Rarely did we get a complete order of bottled water intact
@ jmc7r
Sorry, no. My name has little meaning behind it
@.45:
Oh. I thought it might be a reference to Abel Ferrera’s Grindhouse feminist revenge fantasy “Ms. .45,” which if anyone here liked “Promising Young Woman,” check it out.
@jmc7r:
Fireball is also for mixing with Galliano, sweet cloudy apple cider, and a squeeze of lime, to make something that tastes exactly like apple pie.
The discussion of leaking drink bottles reminds me of back when I was still in high school, my mother took a proper food safety certification course. (She was a pack leader for Brownies, a younger age range for Girl Guides, and having certification was a requirement for running the camp session for the girls.) She was a little twitchy about dealing with any sort of canned beverage for weeks after that because of some of what she’d seen on that course.
Most of it is nothing more than what you expect from living in the modern world anyway and the campers were almost certainly getting exposed to worse at home, but let’s be honest, the focus of a course like that is more on ‘how to make sure we don’t get sued because we caused a major outbreak’, so it’s going to play up worst cases.
@ moon custafer
Ooh Galliano. Try this one…
Shot glass. 1/3 Galliano, 1/3 piping hot really good coffee, 1/3 chilled double (vegan obvs) cream. Pour carefully so you get the three layers like a traffic light.
Then just knock back.
You get the hot coffee hit, but then mitigated by the cool cream; and the Galliano just gives it a delicious sweetness.
While the initial outrage over Sports Illustrated was focused on Petras, I’m starting to see the rumblings about Martha Stewart as well. Michael Knowles in particular is being extremely ageist about it.
How do these guys have time to keep track of all this?
I don’t think they do keep track of it. It’s all in-group signalling and performative outrage anyway; I suspect that for most of them any actual boycott will only last until the next big stink gets raised for some other thing to get mad about.
@Jenora Feuer:
I have to ask: do you know if Suicide Soup is still a thing in Scouting? (When I was involved in the 60’s and 70’s [US: Southwestern Ohio], the custom was for everyone to bring a can or packet of soup from home, to be tossed into a common pot. Given increased awareness of food allergies and religious dietary constraints, I imagine–and hope–that if the practice has survived, it requires prior informed consent and accommodation from all participants.)
Oh no. A conventionally attractive trans woman. The suffering, the pain.
All this disgust aired really sounds like the kind of ‘not gay’-virtue signaling insecure straight men do.
@Full Metal Ox:
I have certainly never heard of it. I wasn’t a Scout at any point, and when my mother ran a Brownie pack for the Girl Guides (note: Guides, not Scouts, this is in Canada) back in the 1980s I didn’t hear of it from her. So I never heard of it, but that could be time frame, difference in jurisdiction, difference between Girl Guides and Boy Scouts, or just it never got brought up.
Honestly, Scouts in the U.S. and Scouts in Canada have some significant differences in handling. The idea of a church sponsoring a Scout group and using it as practically a youth ministry arm is pretty foreign up here, but I’ve been given to understand it’s enough of a thing in the U.S. that it’s next to impossible for non-Mormons to get into Scouting in Utah. (Though that has been changing as attempts at self-policing by the national organization have led to cries of ‘woke’ and creation of parallel organizations with less outside oversight.)
That said, my mother also had one member of her pack that had problems with gluten, lactose, and albumin. (So, wheat, milk, and eggs.) And this being back in the 1980s… she generally brought her own food to the camp anyway, and got used as an excuse to teach various other health aspects to the rest of the pack.
(This was before my little sister would be diagnosed with coeliac disease herself, which would result in my family getting even more knowledgeable about details of food handling.)
@ jmc7r
Jack Daniels just makes me think of Lemmy – particularly the story that when his doctor told him he absolutely must cut down on sugar to avoid death, he switched from Jack and coke to vodka and orange juice. I imagine his doctor has his head in his hands through many conversations.
@ jmc7r & lollypop
Jack Daniels are currently suing the makers of a poop themed dog toy. It’s reached all the way to SCOTUS. This is why people go to law school.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-148/233482/20220815135341762_Jack%20Daniels%20Petition%20for%20Writ%20of%20Certiorari_8.5.22_as%20refiled%208.15.22.pdf
@Full Metal Ox:
I was in the Boyscouts in the late 90’s / early 2000’s, and I never once heard of Suicide Soup.
it’s starting to look like they might have to go BACK to hunting the mammoths. unless the mammoths do an ad campaign for Pride Month or something…
@ tovius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias 😉
@Alan
Well something’s got to keep your lot busy 😉
Mind you, I thought copyright law was about stealing potential market share? Confusion seems like a weird claim. A customer would have to be * very * drunk to get confused over those two products.
@ lollypop
That’s very much what the dog toy company are arguing.
The reason it’s gone all the way to SCOTUS is the wider implications. Might claims of parody be used to disguise genuine passing off and copyright infringement?
So the court wants to use the opportunity to maybe set a few guidelines and principles as to where the boundary may lie.
As I understand it, a lot of IP cases are less the owner being worried about the case in question than about the wider effects of not defending their IP, as that is an easy way to lose it when someone DOES genuinely infringe.
Have I got that right?
If they boycott the fast-food places and Walmart, that’ll take out the majority of their eating/shopping ability and I’m fine with that. Not that they ever follow through with any of this, because that would be inconvenient and require thought/planning. And aren’t so many cheap beers owned by the same international companies? (Don’t know, rarely drink beer and go for microbrews if forced)
I had no idea Kim was trans till she was up for the Grammy with NB Sam Smith. She looks girlier than a lot of cis women I know, including me. @Carstonio may be onto something. I’m more annoyed at them for implying more 80 year olds should look like Martha. And I think SI (and Playboy) have had trans models before.
Funky Winkerbean is woke? It sucks for other reasons, but not wokeness.
I too have been coming across more unfilled cans of soda and fizzy water the past few years. It happens. Neither people nor automation is perfect. It’s much more likely that deliveries drop the box and they leak, though, like @.45 said.
@jmc7r: They boycott Marvel because they have a few female heroes (one of whom is Muslim) and some PoC ones. I think they’re all het up about the new-ish Captain America being Black. Plus the PoC ones reacting to racism, and She-Hulk pointing out that patriarchy exists. And Loki’s bi, which canonically he always was.
But despite owning way too much IP, I like how they’re standing up to DeathSantis. Deciding not to build that billion-dollar campus with 2000 jobs, for one thing. It’s like Iowa deciding corn is too woke for them.
Dickel! A fine whiskey indeed. JD and Fireball are for mixed drinks only.
Nessie is a pleisiosaur, everyone knows that.
@FM Ox: Nope, we didn’t do that when I was a Brownie or Scout, must have been strictly Midwestern and sounds gross. Just bug juice. Neither did the boys. We usually had at least one Jewish girl in the troop, so it literally wasn’t kosher. But the rural all-Protestant troops nearby didn’t do it either. I always thought Scouts was more feminist than Guides, since guides only take you through charted territory or museums, not the wilderness. Not that my suburban troops ever camped anywhere but national parks or Scout grounds.
@ allandrel
Spot on.
Example here (of someone attempting superbly badly) at 15:48