The Nabisco company recently put the above picture on their website, with the innocuous / sweet caption: “Proudly support love!”
And, naturally, the company was immediately attacked by bigots and conservatives.
On account of what? A double-double-double stuffed cookie? I would have thought that a cookie like this would sell like hotcakes in the Bible Belt. Especially with all those bright colors.
But – despite this redneck protest – more and more companies are showing their true (rainbow) colors, and good for them: Target, J. C. Penney, Starbucks. Even Cheerios!
But the bigots and the religious right are thrashing around in anger, and threatening boycott.
Let them thrash, brothers and sisters.
See, I figure, for every religious / conservative kook who decides to boycott one of the above companies (and there are many more gay-tolerant and gay-friendly companies than this, as you’ll see if you follow this link), there’s at least one gay person or gay-tolerant person who’s charmed and delighted by those companies’ bravery.
(And do you know what one of the main complaints on the (mostly tolerant) Internet is? It's that these gigantically-stuffed cookies aren't actually available for sale.)
I haven’t been to Starbucks in a while. I should pay them a visit.
Do you suppose they sell Oreos?
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