Is Target P. C. Whipped?

ROTW Contributor: Angela Durden

I stood up for Target last year during the Great OCD Sweater debacle  and was proud of them for standing up against radical rabble rousers. So, when I heard that they had caved against the radicals who only cared about where their own private parts would be able to relieve themselves, well, you can understand I was in disbelief. But there it was. Bold as brass on their website. You can read their official positioning statement here on their site.

Specifically they say, “Most relevant for the conversations currently underway, we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” (Bold italics are mine.)

What? Is Target P. C. Whipped? Say isn’t so, Big T.

Who in your legal department thought it was a smart idea to spit in the eye of the vast majority of your customers? Now, don’t go getting your panties in a twist (and you’ve got a lot of those to get twisted) and hear me out.

I shall now define for you who the vast majority of your customers are. They are fine, decent, hard working, tax-paying, think-for-themselves folk of all genders, ages, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. In other words, common sense folk who aren’t radicals and who like you for what you are: a purveyor of goods they need. Common sense folk don’t need you to be anything else.

Radicals only march to get attention on themselves. Radicals do not care about anyone or anything except themselves. Radicals only care about a very narrow subset of a situation and then seek to force that on all people everywhere as the ruling law. Radicals seek to force you to care when you already do, they just don’t like how you are showing that care. Radicals cause corporations a ton of legal trouble. Common sense folk don’t.

But you see, the vast majority of your customers, thinking for themselves, are not radical and have quietly chosen the bathroom they want to use without making a production of it. They didn’t hold up a megaphone and say, “I want to be a man [woman] and therefore I shall use the female [male] bathroom…and you better not try to stop me or else I shall sue your a**.”