Letters to the Editor — April 11, 2023
The Difficulty: Gender extremism displayed by TikTok influencers, universities and large international firms.
Primarily based in your article, there’s a good factor referred to as shopping for energy that makes our nation nice (“If it ain’t woke, they repair it,” Apr. 8).
As soon as once more, firms, out of greed, will cease without charge to extend gross sales. Nonetheless, on this case, it’s at all times a enterprise mistake of slick advertising and marketing, not producing gross sales from buyer satisfaction.
The patron boycott is the one software to counter this advertising and marketing technique. I ended shopping for Budweiser and Nike gear instantly, and as time goes on, extra customers will do the identical. Retailer house owners will choose different beers to promote.
This opens up alternatives for rivals to extend their entry to the markets. This enlargement of boycotting will power the businesses to rethink gaining a small inhabitants section however shedding the bigger market.
Greg Raleigh
Washington, DC
Cease referring to Dylan Mulvaney as “she.” He’s nonetheless a person.
Regardless of what number of beauty surgical procedures he has, what number of feminine hormones he takes, how a lot make-up he applies or what number of girls’s garments he wears, he’ll at all times be a person.
Rick Robinson
Hampton Bays
It’s unlucky so many shops appear to painting Dylan Mulvaney within the unfavorable.
If Mulvaney had been solely exploiting being a girl as a wierd fetish, then I’d perceive a few of the unfavorable press. However each side of the media are making an excessive amount of of this. If these firms wish to honor trans girls through their merchandise, why is that such a foul factor?
Chelli Elizabeth
Manhattan
Trans activists, like those that went after Riley Gaines, should be labeled home terrorists (“Gaines floats lawsuit,” Apr. 10).
They’re an organized, very harmful group which positive aspects energy every day. They shake down firms for billions. The vp informed them they’ve particular permission to invade and take over Capitol buildings.
Our White Home solely cared that one was killed whereas taking pictures up a college and killing six folks (together with three kids). Who’re these folks? How and why did they get a lot energy?
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
The Difficulty: The vp’s journey to Tennessee and the expulsion of Democratic state legislators there.
The Submit is on level in underscoring how this administration seeks to “disappear” the victims of the Tennessee Covenant Faculty bloodbath (“Insulting Tenn. Victims,” Editorial, April 10).
It was predictable that Kamala Harris for her go to homed in on these two Tennessee legislators who led a gun-control mob with their bullhorns to disrupt an ongoing legislative session. Speak about a violation of democratic norms!
And the way Orwellian for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cry fascism right here. A traditional case of calling the kettle black.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
As an individual who has voted in fairly a couple of elections, I shook my head on the chaotic scene in Tennessee.
Sadly, I’ve seen no want for what occurred. At a second when time ought to have been given to incorporating stiffer legal guidelines on faculties and their safety, it was as a substitute utilized by a couple of to have their quarter-hour of fame.
This was not the time or the place to incite animosity. But the second was used for simply that.
The reminiscence of the six folks killed on the Covenant Faculty ought to have been their concern. Disgrace on those that felt the necessity to make this a circus.
Sharon Cesario
Brooklyn
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