I would prefer to believe it’s the latter, but it may also be a design choice that merely reflects a general disdain for the user, rather than being motivated by actual greed or cynicism
It’s rainbow capitalism, sure, but if someone is going to make money selling rainbow cans with alcohol in them, at least this is outside of pride month and owned by an actual gay person. It’s more genuine than rainbow cans of bud light, at least.
And the more successful Gay Water is, the more this can be an easy response to that dumbass “go woke go broke” shit.
One thing to note about this breakdown is that it wasn’t legislated with good intention but it was implemented in a very malicious compliance way that completely counteracted the original intention.
This receipt was legislated by the conservative party in Australia under Tony Abbott, the surface level intention was to “show where people’s tax dollars are spent”. However the underlying intention was to show welfare spending as a huge category that totally eclipsed all other spending in order to demonize welfare, particularly unemployment welfare. In order to build public support for rolling back that spending.
However when the letter was implemented, the welfare category was further broken down as you see here, completely working against the narrative that the government at the time was trying to spin (that unemployment welfare particularly was a huge drain on society).
I like the idea. As a straight guy who drinks vodka and soda/tonic I get told my drink is gay from time to time. Now nobody will feel the need to inform me since it’s printed right on the can.
Is this hard to do in practice? I would love to see a breakdown like this in the United States, and especially on a local level. What’s involved in getting this information? Where does someone even start to request something like this?
It would not be a good use for Blockchain technology. Besides the problem that your dollars are a fungible asset that don’t have a physical object associated with it, as soon as you dollars get converted to another state, account, entity, whatever along with another thousands people’s dollars you would lose the tracking. And ultimately even if you could achieve this it would then either all fall to one or two accounts so you would have the disheartening effect of seeing your entire annual contribution spent on something tedious like fuelling an aircraft carrier, or they would attempt to distribute it evenly in which case why not save all the effort and just track the average spend budgets? It’s a solution looking for a problem here.
Ah, thank you for the explanation. I thought that money could be tracked even through conversion, but now I see how that wouldn’t be possible. It’s better suited for tracking bitcoin and the like, right?
Part of me wants to see that tedious spending of my money but I suppose it wouldn’t do me any good. An average breakdown would be nice, starting with my property taxes.
As bad as this take is, I actually do think transphobic is too light of a term for these assholes. Transphobic can imply to some people that its not their fault for being disgusting in some way. We don’t call racist nazis ‘racephobic’, ‘blackphobic’, or ‘jewphobic’. We need a harsher term to label them is what I’m getting at. I will just refer to them as bigots for now.
"Irrationally and disproportionately" doing a LOT of work there.
If you don't care to actively support trans people, "polite indifference" is the only other appropriate response, as they're not hurting anybody by simply existing - mind your own business and let them mind theirs.
You’re full of enough hot takes to melt steel. Phobia means extreme aversion or fear. Your assertion that something does not exist does not mean it does not exist.
There are all these Christian fundamentalists who have been told all their lives they'll go to hell if they're not one hundred percent completely straight all the time, and God sees them and knows what they're thinking. Assuming there's a biological element to homosexuality, a large portion of these people are not completely straight from nature's side. Assuming people are often excited by taboos, they might secretly be more bi-curious (or whatever the word is) than the average population.
For these people, every single step towards gay and trans rights is making it a little bit harder to live in complete denial. They cannot simply ignore it, because they're obsessed with it. One improper thought and they'll burn in hell.
Of course this crowd is terrified of trans people.
Why does food and consumables suddenly have to become political?
When will my Steak have Trumps Face printed on it? Do my cornflakes need some jets and other kind of political messages on it? Fuck no.
I just want to eat and drink. And the only thing I need to know from the packaging is what the product is about. Just stop making food political, what the hell is wrong with this world.
Some stupid print on the package is not going to fix this world in any way.
There is no driver of division to rival missionary behaviour.
“If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.” - Mercedes Lackey
These companies do it to sell product, not because they actually do or don’t believe in some political agenda. If it works to sell more product, then they are going to do it regardless of how repulsive some niche group in a far corner of the internet finds it.
Blame Republicans. They got upset bud light sent a personalized can or two to someone. At least with democrats and liberals when they say boycot someone it's for a good reason. Like fuck nestle.
I don’t really think this is fundamentally different from how it’s always been. Food and drink has always had branding, and I don’t see how gay water is truly that much different from any other branding. The only difference I see is that republicans won’t stop complaining about it
How would you react if someone prints Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross with bloody hands and feet onto your favourite beer. With a face of pure agony and some letters addressing charity?
Or how would you react if some company prints advertisement of Scientology onto their products.
The only thing that belongs onto a product is something to identify the brand, the expiry date, and what it actually contains.
I’d probably just buy a different beer and get on with my life. So long as they’re not using their product to actively promote bigotry in society, there’s no reason for me to care.
How would you react if someone prints Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross with bloody hands and feet onto your favourite beer. With a face of pure agony and some letters addressing charity?
That sounds quite metal tbh for beer. I would give it a go.
The political right wing in the United States has been organised around a politics of scapegoating minorities for seventy years or more; there’s a point at which the two major parties switched their wing orientations in the 1960’s, but the same core principles have been the backbone of the right wing in the US for its entire existence:
A “Natural” Hierarchy;
A perpetual representation of their supposed victimhood;
An appeal to Law and Order to redress the supposed grievance;
An induction of sexual anxiety.
In years past, these were enacted on ethnic minorities; specially and primarily at African-Americans.
Today, a politics of Othering, scapegoating, and persecuting ethnic minorities is no longer politically viable, because society has moved its perception to the point that we now understand that persecution of individuals or groups based on ethnicity is not just hostile, rude, and immoral, but also criminal and outright wrong.
So to maintain their political power & influence, they’ve taken that playbook and turned it to the next page,
A moral panic of Sodom and Gomorrah.
It should be noted that none of this is new; it’s been in development for decades, and was aimed at lesbians and gay men in the 1970’s and especially during the AIDS crisis of the 1980’s.
But the bigots feel they can get a wedge in to society and the law by aiming their bigoted behaviour and rhetoric at transgender people.
Full disclosure: I am transgender, and have spent the last five years documenting and fighting hatred on Reddit. I have an anti-hatred bias. If that disqualifies my answer as not being “unbiased”, then …
The people “trying to make it political” are the ones who want it to go away - ie, the bigots, who somehow always seem to be on the right wing. Everyone else has to push back because failing to do so means bending to the will of the bigots.
If you want it to stop being political, your energy should be directed against conservatives who keep trying to put people into arbitrary boxes and keep them there.
The only reason you know this exists is because you’re on social media reading about it. You’d probably never see this in a store, and if you did it’d be one whole six-pack next to the hundreds of others brands.
I think you may be overreacting, but who knows maybe Gay Water is the next Coca-Cola.
These kinds of products are made pretty much only for pictures to be posted on social media, so if it bothers you maybe don’t browse as much idk
What for do you need representation? I don’t need it. I don’t even know what should or could represent me.
I don’t identify with anything. I am just my self as I am. What use would it have to identify with something? None.
It’s purely corporations trying to make capital gains off cultural phenomena (useless currents that will fizzle out just to get replaced with the next trend - LGB was followed by LGBT and was followed by LGBTQIA+++, it’s the endless progression of a subculture, something big corporation can milk like Star Wars or any other brandable shit), it’s like some Christian dumbass buying a beer because some tortured guy is printed on it.
It has become so laughable nowadays, that Id imagine only some “woke” boomers would fall for it. But nope. Tons of stupid people from all age groups are celebrating their own belief of being rebellious and innovative, or shall I say the belief to improve the world. And big corporations love it. They love the drama and the attention they can generate with the trend hunters.
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