Comments on: Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Reveals that Homophobic Chick-fil-A Is, Shockingly, Also Sexist

By: The Root of Homophobia | Mere Dogma

The Root of Homophobia | Mere Dogma — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:39:49 +0000

[...] this excellent post on Autostraddle, Gabrielle discusses the kerfuffle surrounding Chick-Fil-A’s recent [...]

By: Sophia

Sophia — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:12:46 +0000

If you want more reasons not to eat at chick-fil-a, they are trying to shut down Vermont micro business/artist Eat More Kale for having a somewhat similar slogan (eat more kale vs. eat mor chikn). I had read about that and then this happened and now chick-fil-a is dicks dicks everywhere.

Your paragraph about gender, sexism, and sexuality was perfection. I loved the way you explained something that i have believed for so long.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:27:57 +0000

I have been a supporter of gay rights and a firm believer that freedom religion means not forcing people to follow your faith. But researching the organizations chick fil a supports I am not finding what you people are talking about. I do find they are fighting organizations that are forcing pro gay educational agendas. I then find out what they say is true when I look at what they teach at our local school. Sorry folks when you try to force schools to teach my daughter that same sex intercourse is not only normal but healthy and good then you trample MY rights as a parent. That is where I draw the line. I can’t support you in that. So thank you chick fil a protesters for opening my eyes.

By: Britt

Britt — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:13:21 +0000

Your paragraph regarding homophobia and gender roles was spot on and so thoughtfully rendered. Great article!

By: Karla

Karla — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:35:15 +0000

Not to be a downer. In 1977 they offered gay people and minorities protection as employees, as a “basic good business practice.” They also went on to fund the heritage foundation supporting conservative causes. Just check out the wikepedia page.

It’s a page taken out of the Volkswagen playbook. What once was a nazi car company, is now the creators of the beetle and the VW hippy van.

Anyway, good PR for Coors. But maybe we all need to think a bit critically of what PR means for change.

By: M

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:11:47 +0000

Oh – just saw the ‘buying for workplace equality’ guide that L posted below ….super helpful btw

FYI, this year everything under the MillerCoors umbrella scored a perfect 100.

By: M

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:00:15 +0000

Is the stuff with Coors still happening? I know they had some (deserved) bad press a couple decades ago, but I honestly have no idea about their current ongoings.

Coors owns Blue Moon. …did not realize that until recently…otherwise I would not need to care.

By: karla

karla — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:03:54 +0000

Yeah, I bring up Coor’s for being one of the worst offenders from a class on marketing in college… I also think their policies had a lot to do with race.

By: SassafrasOlivegrass

SassafrasOlivegrass — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:42:24 +0000

Their view of me as “the well-adjusted one” is the little strand of hope that I’m holding onto, that it will somehow all be okay, even if not at first. And that’s a lot more than some others can say.

I think I’ll start with my tiny group of friends, who I know are non-judgemental and will still think of me as an awesome friend no matter what. Then maybe I’ll work my way through my less religious family members and the ones I think will probably take it better.

All I can do is hope for the best. Thank you for the response! It’s always nice to hear/see someone else verbalize (typolize?) a similar situation.

By: L

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Every year I track this down

http://www.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/2012_BuyersGuide.pdf

It helps me make smarter choices with my money in support of the community and usually the HRC score reflects to some degree the treatment of women and minorities too!

By: ak

ak — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:45:37 +0000

i hadn’t heard anything about coors but i already boycott them because their product tastes like watered down piss.

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:32:29 +0000

Not to be That Person, but Forever 21 is actually a terrible company that regularly comes under fire for human rights abuses. They’re notorious users of sweatshop labor, both in the US and abroad (see the documentary ‘Made in LA’). They’re constantly sued for stealing the designs of small artists and then effectively silencing them by wielding their massive multi-billion-dollar corporation powers and settling out of court. And former employees have reported experiencing pressure to join the Forever 21′s owners’ particularly cultish variety of Christianity. Not to mention, the company cheaply makes clothes that are meant to be worn a few times and then disposed of when they falls apart or go out of fashion, which is an incredibly resource-intensive and pollution-heavy process. Decimating the world’s air, water, and land in the name of capitalism is likewise a very serious human rights infringement.

I get what you were going for and agree with that sentiment, but Forever 21 is the last company you should have picked to attempt to make your point. Additionally, while I am being That Person, you might consider refraining from using the “children are starving to death in Africa” line. Children starve to death everywhere, and falling back on that idea to communicate that there exist more serious concerns promotes an extremely negative and false stereotype of Africa. In the west we popularly conceive of Africa *not* as the massive and diverse continent it is, but rather as a homogeneous entity full of nothing but famine, war, and despair. That isn’t cool and we really do need to break the centuries-old cycle that permits this stereotype to live on.