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thevillages2013 04-16-2022 04:41 PM

No more Adidas for me
 
Well first it was Nike. Threw away or gave to charity all all my Nike stuff including a golf bag and would never buy anything with a swoosh on it again. Now Adidas is running a commercial pushing transgender women in sports.
Pretty soon I will be barefoot

Keefelane66 04-16-2022 05:09 PM

Just buy generic golf equipment they go either way

Love2Swim 04-16-2022 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084349)
Well first it was Nike. Threw away or gave to charity all all my Nike stuff including a golf bag and would never buy anything with a swoosh on it again. Now Adidas is running a commercial pushing transgender women in sports.
Pretty soon I will be barefoot

And we care about this why?

thevillages2013 04-16-2022 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Love2Swim (Post 2084370)
And we care about this why?

Some have principles not all

thevillages2013 04-16-2022 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Keefelane66 (Post 2084369)
Just buy generic golf equipment they go either way

That is sage advice but I will buy what I choose to at least while we are still a free country

kcrazorbackfan 04-16-2022 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084387)
That is sage advice but I will buy what I choose to at least while we are still a free country

As will Mrs. KC and I. Tired of the Woke companies that push that.

fdpaq0580 04-16-2022 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084387)
That is sage advice but I will buy what I choose to at least while we are still a free country

As will we all, whether it includes , Adidas or not.
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dewilson58 04-16-2022 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084349)
Well first it was Nike. Threw away or gave to charity all all my Nike stuff including a golf bag and would never buy anything with a swoosh on it again. Now Adidas is running a commercial pushing transgender women in sports.
Pretty soon I will be barefoot

Haven't seen it, not looking forward to it.

Garywt 04-16-2022 08:27 PM

I have seen the commercial, it is not just transgender but covers all women. I just don’t agree that former men should be able to compete against women no matter what they wear.

B-flat 04-16-2022 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Love2Swim (Post 2084370)
And we care about this why?

Some of us are old-fashioned a man is man and a woman is a woman end of the story. On the other hand, if a man wants to be a woman that badly a machete to the right place may put them on the right road.

I haven't owned an Addidas product since the 70s and certainly will not buy one now.

OrangeBlossomBaby 04-16-2022 09:01 PM

I mean, if I'm going to pick a sports company as my hill to die on, I would just - stop buying from that company. Maybe use a magic marker to blacken the swoosh on my sneakers or whatever.

But throwing away perfectly good clothing/gear is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. You already paid for it. You can't undo that.

I don't wear Nike or Adidas stuff because I'm not into sports-branded clothing. But I really don't give a flying furt if their advertisements have men, women, transgender, black, white, disabled, poor, wealthy, Muslim, Baptist, or whatever else. They want everyone to buy their stuff. And so, they're marketing to everyone.

Unless you feel that transgender people shouldn't be allowed to buy Nike and Adidas clothing? Because if that's the case, it sounds more like a "you" problem.

Stu from NYC 04-16-2022 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084439)
I mean, if I'm going to pick a sports company as my hill to die on, I would just - stop buying from that company. Maybe use a magic marker to blacken the swoosh on my sneakers or whatever.

But throwing away perfectly good clothing/gear is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. You already paid for it. You can't undo that.

I don't wear Nike or Adidas stuff because I'm not into sports-branded clothing. But I really don't give a flying furt if their advertisements have men, women, transgender, black, white, disabled, poor, wealthy, Muslim, Baptist, or whatever else. They want everyone to buy their stuff. And so, they're marketing to everyone.

Unless you feel that transgender people shouldn't be allowed to buy Nike and Adidas clothing? Because if that's the case, it sounds more like a "you" problem.

No reason my dollars should support a company that treat women so unfairly.

Men should not be able to compete against women in a womens sport.

OrangeBlossomBaby 04-16-2022 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2084442)
No reason my dollars should support a company that treat women so unfairly.

Men should not be able to compete against women in a womens sport.

I don't think men playing mens' sports should be allowed to earn more than women in womens' sports. I don't think a man OR a woman should earn more in a professional sport than a teacher, or a nurse, or a truck driver. It won't stop me from buying whatever the heck I want to buy.

fdpaq0580 04-16-2022 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2084431)
I just don’t agree that former men should be able to compete against women no matter what they wear.

Agree with you. A few decades back I recall comments and jokes about the Russian women at athletic events showing up with "five o'clock shadow " and Adam's apples. Now it is accomplished through surgical body modification. If someone really can't find life bearable as the gender they are and wants to modify their body, I say do it. But, unless they have their DNA changed, they are still the same gender they have always been, but with body modification that mimics the gender they want to be. There are some animals that can change gender. Humans are not one of them.

I'm Popeye! 04-16-2022 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2084442)
No reason my dollars should support a company that treat women so unfairly.

Men should not be able to compete against women in a womens sport.

I agree 100% Stu....., but we found out 2 weeks ago that some people can not determine or identify a "Woman" when asked to define a woman...

tophcfa 04-16-2022 10:25 PM

Dam, I hope Crocs doesn’t do something to cause me to have to boycott them. If that happened, all I’d have left to wear would be my sketchers golf shoes : (

fdpaq0580 04-16-2022 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2084454)
Dam, I hope Crocs doesn’t do something to cause me to have to boycott them. If that happened, all I’d have left to wear would be my sketchers golf shoes : (

Whatever happened to U. S. KEDS?

Bill14564 04-16-2022 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by I'm Popeye! (Post 2084449)
I agree 100% Stu....., but we found out 2 weeks ago that some people can not determine or identify a "Woman" when asked to define a woman...

Have you tried that yourself? It's easy to be condescending, it's harder to be exact.

Here is an article from USA Today and another from WaPo on the subject.

MartinSE 04-16-2022 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2084460)
Have you tried that yourself?

Here is an article from USA Today and another from WaPo on the subject. It's easy to be condescending, it's harder to be correct.

Thank you for your post, I am biting my tongue here. It is not condescending, it is hate.

blueash 04-17-2022 01:40 AM

All you experts in a man is a man and a woman is a woman... What is a person with XXY chromosomes? What is a person with XO? What is a person with XYY? What is a person with ovotestes? What is a person who has cliteromegaly that mimics in all respects a small phallus? What is a person whose brain tells them beyond any shadow of a doubt they are a woman? You experts are so certain in your ignorance and intolerance. The genders are not as simple as you wish or your church may have taught you. It is very complex and the exceptions to your wrongheaded wisdom prove the fallacy of your beliefs.

Of course you would support forcing teachers not to teach the truth about gender identity because telling children the truth would threaten your so tightly held beliefs. There is every color of the rainbow in human expression and experience of sexuality and gender.

And any corporation that understands how the emerging picture of the complexity of gender must be boycotted. Cancel culture I believe is the term the thought police use on TV

Petersweeney 04-17-2022 05:01 AM

Nike likes to get good social credit scores for sole purpose of stock value on Wall Street…race, gender….ā€equityā€ It’s all projection….they do something and accuse you of doing it…….you think they give a crap about humans….they moved their factories from China to other slave labor countries for profit….90% of all ā€œAmerican ā€œ companies ā€œjust ā€œ do it…… and we all love shopping at Walmart …. This is the middle of the slippery slope of global corporate domination…. Equity is also a distraction that is hiding the real quest of taking away personal freedoms….speech , privacy and the nuclear family unit…..China did this - Russia is almost there and we are next….

villageuser 04-17-2022 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2084442)
No reason my dollars should support a company that treat women so unfairly.

Men should not be able to compete against women in a womens sport.

Targeting the companies that sell the items is not the solution. Targeting the organizations allow /transgender individuals to compete against non-transgender athletes would be more effective. As a woman, I personally think there should be its own transgender category.

Sandy and Ed 04-17-2022 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Love2Swim (Post 2084370)
And we care about this why?

Because it is funny. At least I thought so.

John Mayes 04-17-2022 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084444)
I don't think men playing mens' sports should be allowed to earn more than women in womens' sports. I don't think a man OR a woman should earn more in a professional sport than a teacher, or a nurse, or a truck driver. It won't stop me from buying whatever the heck I want to buy.

The pay equity in professional sports is simply economic. When women’s sports generate the revenue that men’s sports do, women will get paid the same as men.

Sandy and Ed 04-17-2022 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2084431)
I have seen the commercial, it is not just transgender but covers all women. I just don’t agree that former men should be able to compete against women no matter what they wear.

I think former men should compete against former women. In fact that should be a competitive class by itself. Talk about inclusive!!

MidWestIA 04-17-2022 05:25 AM

They want to let trans guys compete with girls ok let girls use steroids - it's the same thing

thevillages2013 04-17-2022 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084439)
I mean, if I'm going to pick a sports company as my hill to die on, I would just - stop buying from that company. Maybe use a magic marker to blacken the swoosh on my sneakers or whatever.

But throwing away perfectly good clothing/gear is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. You already paid for it. You can't undo that.

I don't wear Nike or Adidas stuff because I'm not into sports-branded clothing. But I really don't give a flying furt if their advertisements have men, women, transgender, black, white, disabled, poor, wealthy, Muslim, Baptist, or whatever else. They want everyone to buy their stuff. And so, they're marketing to everyone.

Unless you feel that transgender people shouldn't be allowed to buy Nike and Adidas clothing? Because if that's the case, it sounds more like a "you" problem.

When Adidas runs a commercial repeatedly about transgender women in sports it goes toward normalizing it which is wrong. You as a woman should be against a man competing in women’s sports.

Shoogley 04-17-2022 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084349)
Well first it was Nike. Threw away or gave to charity all all my Nike stuff including a golf bag and would never buy anything with a swoosh on it again. Now Adidas is running a commercial pushing transgender women in sports.
Pretty soon I will be barefoot

I refuse to any product with a company name on it. Why pay for their free advertising. Like paying for Walmarts plastic bags with their name on it.
And the ā€œ my pillowā€ guy who sells cushions for $68.00 and 6 towels for $106 dollars and then thanks God for reducing the price. But…. People are buying it. Capitalism or greed

thevillages2013 04-17-2022 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084439)
I mean, if I'm going to pick a sports company as my hill to die on, I would just - stop buying from that company. Maybe use a magic marker to blacken the swoosh on my sneakers or whatever.

But throwing away perfectly good clothing/gear is basically cutting off your nose to spite your face. You already paid for it. You can't undo that.

I literally changed the swoosh on my socks with a sharpie but that washed off. The point is if I wore apparel by a company (that I don’t agree their sponsors or advertising) when there are other choices then I can’t speak out against that company and their policies

#1bulldog 04-17-2022 06:00 AM

Yes teachers should get paid the big bucks. In the early 2000s when I was teaching mathematics, I was approached by Texas Instruments. They thought my classroom lessons would make a great TV show. They had heard that my students were engaged and loved my approach to teaching. I was offered $50,000 for every class filmed. Heck, that was a whole year salary. Unfortunately I woke up from that wonderful dream. :-)

Gunny2403 04-17-2022 06:16 AM

Try ASICS’s. Made in Mexico.

Luggage 04-17-2022 06:17 AM

Life isn't fair in so many ways. If I was one of the women swimmers in that contest where they had a transgender competing, I would have gotten out of the pool and refused to swim

me4vt 04-17-2022 06:17 AM

To let us know Who Not to support!!

Luggage 04-17-2022 06:18 AM

Be the best that you are but stay the Way You are
 
That's my motto but if you want to be the way you are aren't then you shouldn't be allowed to compete. I have personally nothing against you for whatever you are, just don't try to unfairly have an advantage over me

rjgnj321 04-17-2022 06:18 AM

Perfect Statement on Easter Sunday
 
What a Perfect Statement to make on the day Christians around the world celebrate the Resurrection of a Man who Accepted all those who were different, poor, old, sick, whores, uneducated, homeless, hungry etc……..

spd2918 04-17-2022 06:29 AM

Companies should stay out of politics. Pandering to a small group of radicals (whatever the issue) will cost them profits.

Get woke, go broke.

Keefelane66 04-17-2022 06:33 AM

Throw the baby out with the bath water?
Ambiguous genitalia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic.

Stu from NYC 04-17-2022 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084444)
I don't think men playing mens' sports should be allowed to earn more than women in womens' sports. I don't think a man OR a woman should earn more in a professional sport than a teacher, or a nurse, or a truck driver. It won't stop me from buying whatever the heck I want to buy.

One day when you have some time read a book about economics or even learn something about how capitalism works.

And what is stopping you from buying whatever you desire.

Tuly914 04-17-2022 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084387)
That is sage advice but I will buy what I choose to at least while we are still a free country

Your words, Free Country! So let people do as they please! It's a free country after all right? LOL

jimh24444@gmail.com 04-17-2022 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084349)
Well first it was Nike. Threw away or gave to charity all all my Nike stuff including a golf bag and would never buy anything with a swoosh on it again. Now Adidas is running a commercial pushing transgender women in sports.
Pretty soon I will be barefoot

agree with that and have done the same. will add addidas. only power we have is power of the $


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