Apparently the two items that Target is removing will be "tuck friendly" women's swimsuits and Satan-themed LGBTQ+ accessories.
And why are these items worthy of boycott?
A.All terrorists here need to be arrested and locked up with the key thrown away if they were violent or made such threats
B. Tuck friendly swimsuits are fine, its better than the Dylan Mulvaney option of everyone having to normalize dick bulges.
C. The Satan stuff wasn't merely some shirt with the devil but an actual partnership target entered into with an actual Satanist. Satanism is basically a peak own the con move as the concept of Satan comes from Judaism/Christainity/Islam so not sure why one has to say they support Satan. I'm fine with satanic imagery and I can't exactly oppose Satanism as a non Abrahamicist but its kinda weird and I get why Christians oppose it. Extremely dumb move for Target to promote this stuff in the front of their stores.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/target-partners-with-satanist-brand-for-pride-collection/amp/
"Satanists" are indeed stupid edgelords, "I'm 14 and this is deep" r/atheism types in my experience. They don't ACTUALLY believe in or worship Satan, but they try to scare Christians by pretending to. It's cringe and "own the cons" is a good way of putting it, as it is reminiscent of a funhouse mirror version of the "own the libs" cringe common from the right. Also reminds me of the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" smuglords who peaked in like the late 2000s/early 2010s who thought they were so superior to religious people by claiming to be "Pastafarians." Even as a teenaged atheist, I thought this type of thing was cringe and counter-productive. I definitely do now. LGBT movement had its greatest success when it was trying to convince Americans that gay people are just like them and just wanted the same rights everyone else had. Flaunting their "queerness" and mocking religion, embracing the idea that their behavior is "sinful," seems like an easy way to turn people off to me. But in general I don't understand what if any strategy the post-Obergefell LGBT movement is trying to do, as someone who likes to think from an optics perspective. It's bizarre how they went from such a well-organized and successful campaign to such a fractured, confused mess that has managed, it seems to me, to actually undo some of their hard-fought progress in receiving respect from "normie" straights.
To use your verbiage, some of us “flaunt” what we “flaunt” because we don’t want live our lives constantly concerned about being diligent soldiers in a political campaign to win respect from people who will only respect us if we present ourselves in a palatable conformist way. That’s not much of a victory at all. Frankly, it’s quite easy for non-LGBT people to make recommendations about “optics” when it’s not
their behavior being policed in order to satisfy those optics goals.
