{"id":10945,"date":"2023-06-14T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10945"},"modified":"2023-06-14T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:53:13","slug":"target-giving-in-to-conservative-pressure-on-pride-is-not-a-great-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10945","title":{"rendered":"Target giving in to conservative pressure on Pride is not a great sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cTarget has offered products celebrating Pride Month for years, generally without much pushback. Indeed, Target\u2019s CEO, Brian Cornell, said on a podcast in mid-May<\/a> that the company\u2019s focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion \u201chas fueled much of our growth over the last nine years.\u201d This year, however, some people on the right began to seize on Target\u2019s fairly par-for-the-course Pride marketing efforts to encourage a boycott of the retailer. Some made scenes<\/a> in stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the controversy appeared to center around misinformation that Target was selling \u201ctuck-friendly\u201d bathing suits for kids. As the Associated Press points out<\/a>, they were only available in adult sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some conservatives were angered by<\/a> Target\u2019s partnership with Abprallen, a UK brand that they believe is associated with Satanist designs. Conservative media outlet the Washington Examiner<\/a> posted about Abprallen, which is \u201cheaded by a self-proclaimed gay, transgender man,\u201d offering sweatshirts that read \u201ccure transphobia not trans people\u201d and a tote bag that says \u201ctoo queer for here.\u201d It also points to a design on the brand\u2019s Instagram that says, \u201cSatan respects pronouns.\u201d (Rolling Stone points out<\/a> that while some of Abprallen\u2019s designs do feature horns and pentagrams, none of that was on sale at Target. The designer behind the brand, Erik Carnell, also told the outlet he was getting death threats.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/5\/25\/23737338\/target-abprallen-pride-boycott-bud-light-trans-controversy-stock-price<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTarget has offered products celebrating Pride Month for years, generally without much pushback. Indeed, Target\u2019s CEO, Brian Cornell, said on a podcast in mid-May that the company\u2019s focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion \u201chas fueled much of our growth over the last nine years.\u201d This year, however, some people on the right began to seize on Target\u2019s fairly par-for-the-course Pride marketing efforts to encourage a boycott of the retailer. Some made scenes in stores.<\/p>\n

Much of the controversy appeared to center around misinformation that Target was selling \u201ctuck-friendly\u201d bathing suits for kids. As the Associated Press points out, they were only available in adult sizes.<\/p>\n

Some conservatives were angered by Target\u2019s partnership with Abprallen, a UK brand that they believe is associated with Satanist designs. Conservative media outlet the Washington Examiner posted about Abprallen, which is \u201cheaded by a self-proclaimed gay, transgender man,\u201d offering sweatshirts that read \u201ccure transphobia not trans people\u201d and a tote bag that says \u201ctoo queer for here.\u201d It also points to a design on the brand\u2019s Instagram that says, \u201cSatan respects pronouns.\u201d (Rolling Stone points out that while some of Abprallen\u2019s designs do feature horns and pentagrams, none of that was on sale at Target. The designer behind the brand, Erik Carnell, also told the outlet he was getting death threats.)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[219,1466],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conservatives","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}