HRC Holiday Gift Guide

[betenoire]

Originally Posted by Medusa

I do think this list can serve as a good guide for folks but also suggest that people do their own, much deeper research about where to spend their money.

Like I was just saying to Dapper elsewhere, for sure if nothing else and at the very least it does give people a better idea of what to look for and what questions to ask.

I know for myself, I don't shop at any stores that are famous for being evil. Walmart, for example, does not get my money. In looking at this list I see that Meijer got a lower rating than Walmart did - and I buy all sorts of stuff at Meijer. The reason I started buying my soap, toothpaste, coffee, etc at Meijer is because they are not Walmart. So this list served as a good reminder to me that there -are- companies who are evil who don't enjoy (or disenjoy?) the notoriety that Walmart has.

Will I take the list at it's word? No, probably not. But it certainly has encouraged me to look into a few things a little more deeply.

And piggybacking on what I said earlier - a company courting the LGBTIQ community isn't necessarily a good enough reason to throw our support behind them. Smart companies court the Queers. In a lot of cases (especially with gay men) that's where a great deal of money can be made - so they aren't always nice to us for the right reasons. A good way to tell the difference between a company who treats us nice because it's the right thing to do and a company who treats us nice because it's the profitable thing to do - is to look at how they treat other populations.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by betenoire

.... A good way to tell the difference between a company who treats us nice because it's the right thing to do and a company who treats us nice because it's the profitable thing to do - is to look at how they treat other populations.

Really great point I hadn't thought of before.