Occasionally Facebook pops up with a Target ad. In the past, I have hit the "x" to get rid of the ad and either chosen "offensive" or "other" as my reason for deleting the ad. The "Other" space allows you to explain why you are deleting the ad. Twice now, my explanation has been, "I am gay." Not sure how many characters are available, but I want at every opportunity to send this message somewhere.
Now, facebook is allowing people to leave a comment under the ad, so this was my comment tonight:
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I'm gay, and I don't support Target since Target donated to Emmer and then made terrible, half-ass excuses/fake apologies (I'm sorry about your feelings) about it, then entered negotiations with the HRC about the whole ordeal, but then backed out, and eventually convinced facebook to destroy the boycott Target facebook group. When I think of shopping at Target (where I used to love to shop - for the last 25 years of my life) now I just feel a bit like I want to throw up. I am disappointed bitterly that Target chose to first court the gay community, employ gay designers and gay employees in their stores and then use that profit to support a candidate with such extreme anti-gay associations. Target will never get another dollar out of me. I find it offensive that I even have to look at a Target ad on my very own facebook, and I willl block this ad as soon as I finish leaving this comment.
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Not sure what happens to the comments or what the point is or who sees why I'd be deleting the ad or if it makes any difference at all, but it sure feels better and at least I don't have to look at their smug ads.
I thought maybe I would be done boycotting them once Emmer lost, but I seem to feel just as betrayed by them as when it all went down. My straight friends are back to talking about their trips to Target, and I noticed Ellen mentioned Target casually in a segment recently as though she goes there, but they are not getting any more dollars directly out of my wallet. I am not over it apparently. In my eyes, they have lost all their magic.
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