Yesterday, Bud Lite. Today, Adidas.

[dewilson58]

Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



:ohdear::ohdear:

[Stu from NYC]

What jerk thought that was a good idea?

[JMintzer]

Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



:ohdear::ohdear:

Seemingly?

https://media.tenor.com/16c_MDpEk5oAAAAd/austin-powers-its-a-man-man.gif

[schwarz]

What jerk thought that was a good idea?
It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff

[Stu from NYC]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff

Silly me. Was brought up that men wear clothes made for men and vice versa.

Have we lost the right to have an opinion? Did the memo go into my spam folder?

[JMintzer]

Here is the actual ad people are talking about...

https://youtu.be/3WguURAGMMc

[Woodbear]

The Alphabet Group are one strange cast of characters. If War ever comes to our front door, this country is toast.

[Stu from NYC]

Here is the actual ad people are talking about...

https://youtu.be/3WguURAGMMc

And to think some idiot got paid to put this nonsense out there. Talk about a turnoff.

[DonH57]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff

Sounds like something else I won't research into since it didn't affect my life so far.

[Chi-Town]

Well, there's always Nike to fall back on. Oh, I forgot. Another on the no-no list.

[dwoodley1975]

Why is everyone so worried about what men or women wear... Most people need to open their minds and stop living in a little box. I am all for people being to wear what they want.

[Taltarzac725]

Making a mountain out of a mole hill. The advertisers are probably aiming at a group of purchasers other than you would find here in The Villages. Same with the beer.

[Kelevision]

This is so ridiculous. Who cares and how does this affect you? I guess the real question is why is the OP on the adidas female swimsuit page? Or did he have to seek this out in order to post it. And btw, it’s always the same 4 people who do these things.

[Eg_cruz]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff
Correct

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Why is everyone so worried about what men or women wear... Most people need to open their minds and stop living in a little box. I am all for people being to wear what they want.

Astounding that there exist people who want to wear interesting styles, and don't really care to assign "menswear" or "womenswear" labels to the designs. AND that companies who manufacture garments recognize this, and try to INCLUDE those people in their marketing campaigns.

Seems to me that some folks are just annoyed because they know that they will NEVER look that good in those garments. If they can't rock a full-torso men's swimsuit, then no one should be allowed.

Sad, sad people.

(or maybe they're secretly turned on by it and they're not comfortable with their own inner desires, so they'd rather just not have to see it, instead of acknowledging that it's OKAY to appreciate beauty in all forms)

[dhdallas]

[QUOTE=dewilson58;2219302]Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



There are only 2 genders. All the LBGTQ binary persons have defective wiring in their brains just as a large majority of alcoholics and addicts have brain wiring defects. However we do not hold up (active) drunks & using addicts to be admired or demand they be included in films & TV nor do we see them as role models. So why is it that the abnormal kind of sex a person might prefer to have is something to be proud of? Should S&M practitioners get their own flag and have marches? How about Incels, cosplay, etc.? I put the blame for the blatant immorality of today on the loss of the traditional nuclear family and proactive parenting. Thank god I (probably) won't be around in another 25 years to see where this is going.

[JMintzer]

Sounds like something else I won't research into since it didn't affect my life so far.

"So Far"...

[schwarz]

Why is everyone so worried about what men or women wear... Most people need to open their minds and stop living in a little box. I am all for people being to wear what they want.
Well said.. going to Ireland this fall, perhaps to buy a Kilt

[JMintzer]

Well said.. going to Ireland this fall, perhaps to buy a Kilt

Hope you have the legs for one... :p

[buster21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ

[Worldseries27]

and to think some idiot got paid to put this nonsense out there. Talk about a turnoff.
cannot believe that this nonsense has a viable economic model to sustain itself. To me it's a group trying to be " above it all" . Not looking for equality but rather demonstrating that they are superior to us all as depicted in many dystopian films with elitist characters

[La lamy]

Hello Moderator,
I really wish the IGNORE link would work to avoid seeing their new threads too.

[GizmoWhiskers]

Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



:ohdear::ohdear:
The redisigning of XX bathing suits for "accommodation"... hmmmm...

[Florida Liz]

Silly me. Was brought up that men wear clothes made for men and vice versa.

Have we lost the right to have an opinion? Did the memo go into my spam folder?

Were pants/slacks originally made for women? Hum? Most women were them today.

[Blackbird45]

Advertisers put out whatever they believe will sell more of their product.
I'm sure they must have done a study that showed this was going to work.
I'm 77, my biggest worry is that there is enough milk for my corn flakes in the morning.
At one time there was a big uproar when women started wearing pants.
10 years from now people will either embrace this or look back at this as a big joke.

[dennisgavin]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff

Yeah, just ignore as our culture slowly degenerates and disappears.....no thank you. This kind of stuff is toxic for young minds and needs to be countered!

[Sandy and Ed]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff
Huh???? Really???

[Sandy and Ed]

Yeah, just ignore as our culture slowly degenerates and disappears.....no thank you. This kind of stuff is toxic for young minds and needs to be countered!
AMEN to that !

[billethkid]

Yeah, just ignore as our culture slowly degenerates and disappears.....no thank you. This kind of stuff is toxic for young minds and needs to be countered!

Core values are being degraded by a minuscule representation of the population....enabled by a very biased and intentionally destructive media.

Their presence is not a part of our daily lives yet the media continues to make it look as though it is.

They can live their lives as they see fit, without affecting the rest of us.....

__________________________________________________ _

:censored:

[Johnsocat]

The Alphabet Group are one strange cast of characters. If War ever comes to our front door, this country is toast.

It wasn't long ago that "Pride" was in good old America and its values. The new "Pride" is a fringe alternative lifestyle.
The world is laughing at us and anticipating our demise as economic and world leaders.
We are imploding.

[Vermilion Villager]

Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



:ohdear::ohdear:
What concerns me is this bothers you so bad. Is there anything in this article, or what it suggests that is going to affect your daily life? :cryin2:No...I didn't think so. :mornincoffee:

[rsmurano]

I stopped shopping at Nike over 20 years ago for what the founder knight was doing. I stopped using adidas tennis shoes last year because of their shoddy quality and they wouldn’t stand behind them. What they are doing now is just icing on the cake to never buy adidas. I have a long list of never do business with again for the actions they have done and it is growing daily. I have found better tennis shoes at better prices than adidas, these guys are not the only game in town, same goes for the beer, airlines, department stores, etc..
I was so happy to hear that nordstroms will probably be going under within the next 2 years. Their cancel culture backfired

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I stopped shopping at Nike over 20 years ago for what the founder knight was doing. I stopped using adidas tennis shoes last year because of their shoddy quality and they wouldn’t stand behind them. What they are doing now is just icing on the cake to never buy adidas. I have a long list of never do business with again for the actions they have done and it is growing daily. I have found better tennis shoes at better prices than adidas, these guys are not the only game in town, same goes for the beer, airlines, department stores, etc..
I was so happy to hear that nordstroms will probably be going under within the next 2 years. Their cancel culture backfired

Uh - I think you don't understand the term "cancel culture." Cancel culture is when a thing is boycotted, or rejected. It is what YOU are doing. YOU are cancelling groups, products, companies. That's you doing that.

What THEY are doing is the exact opposite of cancel culture: inclusion and diversity.

You're cancelling these things, because they include them and it upsets you I guess, even though it seems to have absolutely zero effect on you personally.

[buster21]

'''SNL''' star Kenan Thompson surprises Newport, RI police with coffee and donuts: '''Wicked nice''' | Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/snl-star-kenan-thompson-surprises-rhode-island-police-department-coffee-donuts-wicked-nice)

[Vermilion Villager]

Yeah, just ignore as our culture slowly degenerates and disappears.....no thank you. This kind of stuff is toxic for young minds and needs to be countered!
Hmmm.........it appears your culture is a little more fragile than mine.:ho:

[Byte1]

Male or Female, "IT" is still the ugliest swimsuit model I've seen yet. Gonna be hard to forget that picture.

[manaboutown]

Just when one thinks it cannot possibly get worse, it does....Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection (https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/05/22/target-partners-with-satanist-designer-abprallen-for-gay-pride-collection/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2s-QOFJgQyMhs-xDZrb-cNf7LoFLCpp0utTVs-06233txl_fbiNuwR1Ao)

[Stu from NYC]

Just when one thinks it cannot possibly get worse, it does....Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection (https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/05/22/target-partners-with-satanist-designer-abprallen-for-gay-pride-collection/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2s-QOFJgQyMhs-xDZrb-cNf7LoFLCpp0utTVs-06233txl_fbiNuwR1Ao)

Better be careful some people think we have lost the right to have an opinion on stupidity like this.

[dewilson58]

Hello Moderator,
I really wish the IGNORE link would work to avoid seeing their new threads too.

Simple............Jus don't read the thread.

:oops:

[Byte1]

Advertisers put out whatever they believe will sell more of their product.
I'm sure they must have done a study that showed this was going to work.
I'm 77, my biggest worry is that there is enough milk for my corn flakes in the morning.
At one time there was a big uproar when women started wearing pants.
10 years from now people will either embrace this or look back at this as a big joke.

I am already looking at it as a SAD "joke." No one took "Klinger" from Mash seriously and even in the series, he was not taken seriously by the other characters. He was a man dressing as a woman in an attempt to get a section 8 out of the military. Now, they do it to get attention. They have come out of the closet that they were in due to ridicule and now the folks that shake their heads and make comments about how ridiculous these folks are, must do so silently and anonymously, less being ridiculed. In my opinion, spotlighting deviant and abnormal behavior in order to celebrate it, is morally reprehensible. And there is a difference between tolerating and condoning. Cultural diversity is one thing to encourage; deviant diversity is not something to celebrate. Kind of like a friend telling me that the reason for GAY PRIDE parades is to gain respect for their lifestyle, as they prance around in extreme dress (or lack of) and makeup and act comically. He(IT) looked puzzled when I asked how looking ridiculous to the majority would gain "respect?" It would be fine with me if they keep their lifestyle choices private. But, I am old and more or less set in my ways. On the other hand, I have grandchildren that have similar reactions to weird. Thank goodness we have passed down the idea of tolerance, but have not forced acceptance or condoning. However, I do believe there is a limit to tolerance, and I don't think it is wise to push the majority into a corner with forced tolerance. Thank you for tolerating my opposing view to celebrating abnormal mental stability/diminished mental capacity. So far, I don't condone it but I will attempt to tolerate until I feel smothered by saturation. :ohdear:

[JMintzer]

Advertisers put out whatever they believe will sell more of their product.
I'm sure they must have done a study that showed this was going to work.
I'm 77, my biggest worry is that there is enough milk for my corn flakes in the morning.
At one time there was a big uproar when women started wearing pants.
10 years from now people will either embrace this or look back at this as a big joke.

Well, considering their sales are down 26%, I'd say they missed the boat on whatever "research" they did...

Personally, I think it was just a "let's show how progressive we can be" gambit that failed, miserably...

[JMintzer]

Uh - I think you don't understand the term "cancel culture." Cancel culture is when a thing is boycotted, or rejected. It is what YOU are doing. YOU are cancelling groups, products, companies. That's you doing that.

What THEY are doing is the exact opposite of cancel culture: inclusion and diversity.

You're cancelling these things, because they include them and it upsets you I guess, even though it seems to have absolutely zero effect on you personally.

Bwahahaha!

Who do you think started the "cancel culture" wars? Inclusion and diversity, only if you agreed with us...

But now that they're getting a taste of their on medicine, it's suddenly a problem?

[JMintzer]

Just when one thinks it cannot possibly get worse, it does....Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection (https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/05/22/target-partners-with-satanist-designer-abprallen-for-gay-pride-collection/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2s-QOFJgQyMhs-xDZrb-cNf7LoFLCpp0utTVs-06233txl_fbiNuwR1Ao)

And they've added "tuck friendly" bikini bottoms in the women's swimwear department...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/19/14/71183499-0-image-a-4_1684504027255.jpg

[Boomer]

Aw, c’mon, manaboutown has now put a link to Breitbart! (Sp?). Wowzer, TOTV is now entering the Q zone.

Moderator, please wake up — I mean that literally not figuratively. We don’t need to have TOTV turn into just another pile of internet $#i+.

I admit, I attempted a little debate in a different thread. Lost cause. I went back and cleared out my last post.

Please make this circle….. stop.

Thank you.

Boomer

[manaboutown]

Aw, c’mon, manaboutown has now put a link to Breitbart! (Sp?). Wowzer, TOTV is now entering the Q zone.

Moderator, please wake up — I mean that literally not figuratively. We don’t need to have TOTV turn into just another pile of internet $#i+.

I admit, I attempted a little debate in a different thread. Lost cause. I went back and cleared out my last post.

Please make this circle….. stop.

Thank you.

Boomer

Well, fake news main stream media bury such information. Here is more on the situation. Target Faces Backlash Over ‘Pride’ Collection Designer Behind ‘Satan Respects Pronouns’ Shirts | The Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts)


and there's more from Target...and it involves infants and children! Target's 'tuck-friendly' swimwear for kids sparks controversy (https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/targets-tuck-friendly-swimwear-for-kids-sparks-controversy/)

[crc19188]

GOD will judge us all the same for what we have done. I hope this helps ease everyone's pain towards a subject that is actually meaningless. Do not buy the product. This is best way to hurt company. Sell off your stock in it. Vote for better government officials. Make sure that they will help all in the state of Florida and not just themselves because they are trying to promote themselves.

[PugMom]

Well, fake news main stream media bury such information. Here is more on the situation. Target Faces Backlash Over ‘Pride’ Collection Designer Behind ‘Satan Respects Pronouns’ Shirts | The Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts)


and there's more from Target...and it involves infants and children! Target's 'tuck-friendly' swimwear for kids sparks controversy (https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/targets-tuck-friendly-swimwear-for-kids-sparks-controversy/)

i haven't shopped Target in years since they changed the bathroom policy. i don't miss it, i can get the same chinese garbage anywhere

[manaboutown]

i haven't shopped Target in years since they changed the bathroom policy. i don't miss it, i can get the same chinese garbage anywhere

I try not to shop Target but they sell certain items I like or need so I shop there on occasion. My daughter loves to shop at Target.

Early last June I even bought some Target stock along with Walmart as they both had taken hits. The Target stock has gone nowhere; the Walmart stock has enjoyed a nice gain.

[Pugchief]

Well, considering their sales are down 26%, I'd say they missed the boat on whatever "research" they did...

Personally, I think it was just a "let's show how progressive we can be" gambit that failed, miserably...

Yep. Virtue signaling plain and simple. There is no reason to advertise to such a small fringe group; the cost of the ads can't be covered by such a small potential increase in sales, if there even is any.

It looks like peak wokeness is behind us. There is clearly some pushback, and now that the anti-woke are realizing that resistance is not futile (see Bud Light), there will be more and more pushback.

[JMintzer]

And they've added "tuck friendly" bikini bottoms in the women's swimwear department...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/19/14/71183499-0-image-a-4_1684504027255.jpg

And now, they have the same "Pride Line", labeled "tuck friendly" and "light binding" in the children's department...

But no, no one is targeting children...

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Well, fake news main stream media bury such information. Here is more on the situation. Target Faces Backlash Over ‘Pride’ Collection Designer Behind ‘Satan Respects Pronouns’ Shirts | The Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts)


and there's more from Target...and it involves infants and children! Target's 'tuck-friendly' swimwear for kids sparks controversy (https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/targets-tuck-friendly-swimwear-for-kids-sparks-controversy/)

There's a lot of old male geezers who should be investing in "tuck friendly" swimwear. Them saggy nasty plucked-chicken-skin thangs need to just - not be made available for public viewing.

And yet - we see those spreads when we walk by on our way to a chair at the pool, and they can't be unseen.

[JMintzer]

There's a lot of old male geezers who should be investing in "tuck friendly" swimwear. Them saggy nasty plucked-chicken-skin thangs need to just - not be made available for public viewing.

And yet - we see those spreads when we walk by on our way to a chair at the pool, and they can't be unseen.

I'm sure you're a vision of loveliness, too...

[Taltarzac725]

Do not understand the big deal with this? We have a lot more serious matters on our hands than men wearing women's underwear or whatever is involved in advertising bathing suits.

I do not want to get in trouble for getting political. But. Bathing suits! Really?

[alwann]

Adidas 'Pride 2023' women's swimsuits seemingly modeled by man (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/adidas-pride-2023-womens-swimsuits-seemingly-modeled-by-man/)



:ohdear::ohdear:

Kind of surreal for Adidas to get "woke." Nazis ran the company. Pride people were sent to work camps or killed in those times. Ok, I suppose this is 'change-culture' of another kind.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Do not understand the big deal with this? We have a lot more serious matters on our hands than men wearing women's underwear or whatever is involved in advertising bathing suits.

I do not want to get in trouble for getting political. But. Bathing suits! Really?

I totally get it. I mean, first you have a man in drag posting a twitter pic of himself with a Bud Lite. Then Target have public restrooms for "whoever" needs to go to the bathroom. Then you start seeing photo shoot ads for designer swimsuits worn by guys with big crotch-bulges and no breasts. THEN Target starts selling products with rainbow designs on it.

You know this can only end in one thing:
Women wearing pants.

This has to stop, now, or our country will be doomed forever.

BTW: I just did a google search on Jack Lalane, and then on 1930's men's swimsuits. I knew I didn't misremember Jack rocking a spandex leotard. And the swimsuits from the 1930's for men - the one I remembered seeing was called a Y-back one-piece "with skirt" - it had a little butt-covering skirt over the back. Totally crazy how no one accused them of dressing like women then.

[Erider]

I'm sure you're a vision of loveliness, too...

LOL :a20:

[JMintzer]

Do not understand the big deal with this? We have a lot more serious matters on our hands than men wearing women's underwear or whatever is involved in advertising bathing suits.

I do not want to get in trouble for getting political. But. Bathing suits! Really?

Yup... It's just about bathing suits...

[JMintzer]

I totally get it. I mean, first you have a man in drag posting a twitter pic of himself with a Bud Lite. Then Target have public restrooms for "whoever" needs to go to the bathroom. Then you start seeing photo shoot ads for designer swimsuits worn by guys with big crotch-bulges and no breasts. THEN Target starts selling products with rainbow designs on it.

You know this can only end in one thing:
Women wearing pants.

This has to stop, now, or our country will be doomed forever.

BTW: I just did a google search on Jack Lalane, and then on 1930's men's swimsuits. I knew I didn't misremember Jack rocking a spandex leotard. And the swimsuits from the 1930's for men - the one I remembered seeing was called a Y-back one-piece "with skirt" - it had a little butt-covering skirt over the back. Totally crazy how no one accused them of dressing like women then.

Except the "with skirt" part never happened...

I hear they have pills to help with your "memory"...

https://i0.wp.com/4.bp.blogspot.com/_RMBnYX1OtXY/TL_YU_QTcAI/AAAAAAAAC5g/wHP6d4mAHrU/s1600/surfers_bondi-beach-1930s.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/W2AAAOSwBX1hzkU0/s-l1600.jpg

[Innserelli]

It's just an advertisement or commercial appealing to other Americans...what is the big deal. Why cannot everyone just live and let live? Enjoy each day and forget all this stuff

Because it's a lie. The more a lie is accepted, the next lie becomes easier to promote and inculcate. Live and let live is apathy. Who cares as long as it doesn't impact me? That's kind of selfish self-imposed ignorance that allows others to take advantage, and when it's too late, you wake up and find things being imposed on you that you that you are suddenly very concerned about but unable to do anything about. Read 1984.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Because it's a lie. The more a lie is accepted, the next lie becomes easier to promote and inculcate. Live and let live is apathy. Who cares as long as it doesn't impact me? That's kind of selfish self-imposed ignorance that allows others to take advantage, and when it's too late, you wake up and find things being imposed on you that you that you are suddenly very concerned about but unable to do anything about. Read 1984.

There existed no such advertisement. Bud Lite didn't have an ad with Mulvaney. Anheuser-Bush didn't produce an advertisement with Mulvaney. THAT is the lie. And everyone who is screaming holy murder about how horrible it is, and boycotting Bud Lite because they believe this lie, are all the people who are buying the promotion and inculcation of lies.

[asianthree]

So anyone know of someone who has a child or friends that is of the “Pride” community? Guessing or really hoping it would be a “NO”.

One worries about ad placement, while mental health, and gun violence is on the rise. That’s what worries me, those who need help and can’t or won’t get it. Those who choose to destroy lives just for fun.

Ad placement doesn’t has never made me run out and buy something, or stop buying something that I have bought for years.

I have to ask if your child, or grandchild is of a different lifestyle, than you believe in, would you disown them, hate them, make them disappear from your life, as if they didn’t exist?

[Two Bills]

As a young kid, my Grandma knitted my first swimming trunks.
Looked passable when dry.
Wet?:ohdear:
Plenty of crotch space, and my knees were well protected from the sun which was a bonus.
Never been a beach person since.
Scarred for life.

[dewilson58]

I have to ask if your child, or grandchild is of a different lifestyle, than you believe in, would you disown them, hate them, make them disappear from your life, as if they didn’t exist?

Silly questions.................a parent would not.

But a parent might assist them with getting help.

:sigh:

[Causey]

None of this debate matters to me or affects my life.
Well, except for one thing. Advertising is EVERYWHERE, and its meant to be. Some of it is meant to be subliminal, most is meant to be right in your face and in a big way. Corporations spend billions of dollars on this curious thing called advertising, because they know it works to sell their products.
The people that say "it doesn't affect you, just let it go" are brainwashed fools that can't think for themselves.
These corporations need to take the "negative results, as well as, the positive results" of their advertising dollars spent.
I will decide how to spend my money the way I see fit, and apparently a lot of Americans are realizing we can affect how companies project themselves to us. We are the vast majority, with the vast majority of money to spend. Be careful what you wish for.

[manaboutown]

So anyone know of someone who has a child or friends that is of the “Pride” community? Guessing or really hoping it would be a “NO”.

One worries about ad placement, while mental health, and gun violence is on the rise. That’s what worries me, those who need help and can’t or won’t get it. Those who choose to destroy lives just for fun.

Ad placement doesn’t has never made me run out and buy something, or stop buying something that I have bought for years.

I have to ask if your child, or grandchild is of a different lifestyle, than you believe in, would you disown them, hate them, make them disappear from your life, as if they didn’t exist?

Probably the best long time neighbor I ever had is a lesbian. One of my former wife's nieces, a wonderful lady, is a lesbian married to another by Justice Sotomayor.

A couple real estate brokers I have bought properties from are gay men.

I could go on but won't. These and others are fine folks.

[JMintzer]

There existed no such advertisement. Bud Lite didn't have an ad with Mulvaney. Anheuser-Bush didn't produce an advertisement with Mulvaney. THAT is the lie. And everyone who is screaming holy murder about how horrible it is, and boycotting Bud Lite because they believe this lie, are all the people who are buying the promotion and inculcation of lies.

They partnered with him as an influencer. Their ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT did that...

So please, stop lying about it...

[JMintzer]

So anyone know of someone who has a child or friends that is of the “Pride” community? Guessing or really hoping it would be a “NO”.

One worries about ad placement, while mental health, and gun violence is on the rise. That’s what worries me, those who need help and can’t or won’t get it. Those who choose to destroy lives just for fun.

Ad placement doesn’t has never made me run out and buy something, or stop buying something that I have bought for years.

I have to ask if your child, or grandchild is of a different lifestyle, than you believe in, would you disown them, hate them, make them disappear from your life, as if they didn’t exist?

When the ad placement targets children, I draw the line...

And yes, I have several friends, and friends with children who are part of the "Pride Community"...

Not sure why you would guess or hope I didn't...

I have zero desire to "disown them, hate them, make them disappear from my life, as if they didn’t exist"...

Quick story... We have friends, who's son is gay. I've know him since he was a baby...

When he "came out" his parents called to tell us. My response was "I know"...

They were surprised and asked how I knew. I replied, "because I know Josh! I've know him forever..." The said, "We just wanted to make sure you were okay with it..."

I replied "No one cares, he just Josh..."

A few months later we went to Iceland with that couple. On every single tour, at every single restaurant, they felt the need to ask, "How is it for gay people here, in Iceland?"

They got the exact same answer, each and every time. "No one cares".

Yet, they felt the need to keep asking... It became a bit much after a while...

Seems to me, THEY were the ones with issues about their son...