I have two tabs open in my browser which fall directly under this headline, so let’s kill two extremely dumb birds.
Here are Bryan Fischer and Randy Sharp of the American Family Association, agreeing that God is extremely concerned with a chain of hardware stores, so much so that He is going to punish them. God hates Home Depot, you see:
Prophecy has really gotten mundane, I think we all can agree?
So anyway, while the AFA continues to be upset about Home Depot, their One Million Moms affiliate has decided to declare war on The Gap, urging them to “learn from JC Penney’s mistakes.” I’m not sure anyone in JC Penney’s top brass is aware they made a “mistake,” but this is the delusional world of the American wingnut:
One Million Moms, the anti-gay group that propelled shoppers into JC Penney with its boycott of JC Penney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres, is now attacking GAP for an advertising series featuring Broadway’s “Book Of Mormon” actor Rory O’Malley and his boyfriend Gerold Schroeder. No doubt GAP is praying for the One Million Moms effect. LGBT shoppers and our allies actually formed shopping days and shopping flash mobs that drove thousands of buyers into JC Penney.
Indeed!
Companies should learn from others’ mistakes. Retailers need to choose morality or remain neutral. Otherwise, their bottom dollar will suffer.
Speaking of companies who are choosing to be politically correct instead of focusing on selling clothes; GAP is also guilty. In Los Angeles, CA, GAP has a billboard located downtown that reads: “GAP- BE BRIGHT- BE ONE” with two homosexual men pressed together under a shared t-shirt. They are hugging each other and facing the camera cheek-to-cheek. “BE ONE” is in large letters which emphasizes the same-sex relationship.
GAP Inc. Brands, including Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, and Athleta, does not deserve, nor will it get, money from conservative families across the country. Supporting GAP is not an option until they decide to remain neutral in the culture war. GAP needs to seriously consider how their immoral advertising affect the youth of our nation.
You see, in wingnut world, there are only two options: either publicly agree with the wingnuts or stay silent on all issues which run the risk of hurting the wingnuts’ fee fees. Anyway, this stupid boycott will go nowhere, as none of their stupid boycotts go anywhere.
Here’s the Gap ad. It’s cute:
Looks like I need to be shopping at Homo Depot a little more often. Love those guys.
I live at Homo Depot. I don’t shop for my manly needs anywhere else.
Kids are exposed to more casual violence every day to the point of desensitization. Just about every film ad poster features a character with a gun in hand.
But have two men or women in an embrace that depicts ss affection and closeness, they all get the vapors that people will be traumatized at the sight.
SPARE us, the hyperbole and hysteria over ss public affection in ads.
Violence as entertainment is a LOT worse than casual affection being threatening.
WTF?!
You got that right, Regan. I’ts sheer insanity to ignore violence in entertainment while falsely claiming same sex affection is a problem.
I already sent The Gap an e-mail thanking them for their fabulous ad. They have nothing to fear from this silly boycott. It’s not like anybody from OMM ever shopped at any of their stores as they don’t sell frumpywear.
I like that: Frumpywear or frumpwear, of frumpery possibly?
Regan, You hit the nail on the head there, I’ve been saying similar things for a while.
Films aimed at a family audience can often be very violent. I saw Captain America not long ago, and if you pay attention to the body-count, it is actually appallingly high for such a movie.
But put 2 men kissing in a film, and it would immediately have its rating put up to restrict younger audiences from seeing it.
This particular set of values is rather topsy-turvey, methinks.
I would rush into The Gap purchase some garb immediately, but me no likey.
I do, however, LOVE Banana Republic, and will be making a point of partronizing their outlets more frequently.
It’s all about the Banana! ;D
@Peter- I think the one that tops that is The Hunger Games where kids are put in a contest to kill the other kids. I have no idea how that is a family movie and if I had kids they would not be going to see that.
I’ve heard it’s content (never mind the premise) is quite violent, but I have not seen it.
But for a ‘family film’ it does sound an awful lot like Battle Royale, an ultra-violent Japanese film that caused a load of controversy upon it’s 2000 release (not because of the violence so much, but the premise of a feral fight to the death involving school children).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)
Seems it only takes just over a decade to completely desensitise us to this type of thing.
Yes, but violent entertainment, where men brutally murder each other, honors and promotes the coveted values of macho manliness, whereas the horror of two men kissing dishonors those values. And that makes perfect sense to those suffering from Gender Obsession Disorder.
Gender Obsession Disorder – or G.O.D.
Indeed Richard, I think many if not all wingnuts are suffering from G.O.D. and the sooner we can eliminate G.O.D. the better off everyone will be. ;D
And thanks for reminding me – all of wingnuttery, be it sexism, homophobia, rascism, the love of violence, the hatred of sex, are all just another facet of affluent (and effluent) straight white males asserting their superiority and right to rule over everyone else.
Well, not for long.
Gender Obsession Disorder is just one in the growing family of G.O.D. pathologies. So far, we also have:
Gay Obsession Disorder
Genitalia Obsession Disorder, and the granddaddy of them all,
God Obsession Disorder
I’m lobbying to have the whole family included in the next edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
On a more positive note — Rory and his boyfriend are absolutely adorable together!!! Now I really can’t wait for the “Book of Mormon” to hit my town.