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Phil01

(189 posts)
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 03:16 PM Aug 2023

Disney is threatened with Bud Light-style boycott over hiring gender-fluid influencer Seann Altman

Disney is threatened with Bud Light-style boycott over hiring gender-fluid influencer Seann Altman
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12394055/Disney-threatened-Bud-Light-style-boycott-hiring-gender-fluid-influencer-Seann-Altman.html

Social media users have pledged to never give one more cent to Disney after the company partnered with a gender-fluid TikToker to promote girls' clothing - a move that many are comparing to Bud Light's disastrous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

Seann Altman, who sometimes dresses up as a woman but uses he/him pronouns, did a sponsored post for the Disney Style TikTok account showing how he put together a Minnie Mouse-inspired look.

'I literally look like Minnie Mouse, and I fit in perfectly with Mickey and his friends,' he said on the video that showed him dressing up. 'The bow, with the dress, and the shoes really sealed the deal. Now I'm fashionable, bold, and fun, just like Minnie Mouse!'

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RW testing limits. I'm guessing this one won't stick.
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Disney is threatened with Bud Light-style boycott over hiring gender-fluid influencer Seann Altman (Original Post) Phil01 Aug 2023 OP
Funny thing is ExciteBike66 Aug 2023 #1
They won't let adults dress as the characters. Kids can. Gore1FL Aug 2023 #7
I've often wondered why right wingers liked Disney at all. BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2023 #2
Do it!!! NCDem47 Aug 2023 #3
F the Daily Mail. RW shit-stirrers. emulatorloo Aug 2023 #4
They apparently have latched onto this issue and will NOT let it go. hlthe2b Aug 2023 #5
+++++ emulatorloo Aug 2023 #6
So corporations can't hire trans people anymore? DBoon Aug 2023 #8
Apparently so vercetti2021 Aug 2023 #10
If magas stop going to Disneyworld or Disneyland, they really would be the happiest places on Earth! Piratedog Aug 2023 #9

Gore1FL

(21,991 posts)
7. They won't let adults dress as the characters. Kids can.
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 03:40 PM
Aug 2023

Adults are restricted to “Disney Bounding.”

BlueTsunami2018

(4,071 posts)
2. I've often wondered why right wingers liked Disney at all.
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 03:20 PM
Aug 2023

Everything about them has always been inclusive. There isn’t a more “woke” place on earth than Walt Disney World.

hlthe2b

(106,767 posts)
5. They apparently have latched onto this issue and will NOT let it go.
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 03:29 PM
Aug 2023

Outrage for the sake of outrage is so annoying. Then again, I find the whole phenomenon of paid "influencers" to be rather demeaning to society as a whole. Surely most can think for themselves? I certainly lived my life just fine before the Kardashians hit the scene.

DBoon

(23,170 posts)
8. So corporations can't hire trans people anymore?
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 03:46 PM
Aug 2023

Merely providing employment to a trans person is enough to trigger right wing panic and a boycott?

vercetti2021

(10,403 posts)
10. Apparently so
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 06:14 PM
Aug 2023

But Barbie kinda blew that out of the water with a trans doctor Barbie. So obviously it only applies in their little echo chambers. But Disney doesn't apply like Bud Light did. Bud Light only got into the deep shit they did because the backtracked so fast and left Dylan to herself. They got hate from both sides. Hate for the dumbest reason and hate for the right reason.

Also I'm a trans woman that's a manager of a coffee shop. I wonder if word got out people would stop coming in for coffee lol probably thinking their lattes will turn them gay

Piratedog

(266 posts)
9. If magas stop going to Disneyworld or Disneyland, they really would be the happiest places on Earth!
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 04:47 PM
Aug 2023
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