WTF? Corporate America is canceling Mother's Day

[Tahuyaman]

When the silliness or idiocy of liberalism is exposed, liberals always claim that this example is just a obscure fringe element which has no support and is irrelevant.

[Peter1469]

And this is the basis of equal out comes, without equal input. Of course there are some things an individual has no control over, but why should someone be denied the enjoyment, in this case, of family if they have it?

I'm tired of people expecting everything to be drilled down to the least fortunate, on fear of offending someone. I have lost my Mom, Dad, Sister and best friend. I don't have kids. Should I be offended when someone who does posts on FB the wonderful family event they went to? Pictures of their kid's latest awards? HELL NO.

I applaud their achievements, laugh at the kids foibles and complement the new grandkid.... and mean it sincerely! This is the attitude that is missing, I guess people think if they have misery in their lives, everyone else should too. FTS.

Bingo.

If you are offended by Mothers Day, tell it to your shrink. Society doesn't need to pander to you.

[RichardMZhlubb]

Bingo.

If you are offended by Mothers Day, tell it to your shrink. Society doesn't need to pander to you.

You think that giving people on mass distribution emails lists the option to opt out of some emails is "pandering"? Seriously?

[Peter1469]

You think that giving people on mass distribution emails lists the option to opt out of some emails is "pandering"? Seriously?

Unsubscribe. Talk to your shrink. Society has no obligation to cater to you.

[donttread]

Go Woke, go stupid.

WTF? Corporate America is canceling Mother's Day

Did you know that Mother’s Day is controversial?



I didn’t. Pretty sure nobody did. After all, everybody has a mother.


Corporate America, though, has for some reason decided that Mother’s Day is a “sensitive” time, a “challenging” time, or a “difficult” time, so they are inviting customers to opt out of emails related to the triggering day.



No, I am not kidding.


When I first saw this Twitter threat I thought it must be a joke, but no, it is real. Mother’s Day is apparently an oppressive thing to some people–enough that corporate America doesn’t find it “difficult” or “challenging” to be “sensitive” to your trauma and let you ignore the fact that you were born of a woman.

A deluge of Mother’s Day marketing emails flooded Michelle Levinson’s inbox year after year — sometimes 15 in a day, each reminding them of their estrangement from their mother.
Then last month, Levinson received a different kind of email: “We understand Mother’s Day can be a really difficult time for some of our #PashFam,” read the message from Passion Planner, a planner and journal company. “If you’d rather not receive emails from us about Mother’s Day this year, feel free to opt-out.”
The choice felt like a breath of fresh air for Levinson, who lives in Cleveland. They gladly clicked the button to unsubscribe, thankful for the option to get fewer unpleasant reminders of the holiday.
“I’m honestly very grateful that there’s even a step in this direction from even just one company,” Levinson said. “It’s heartwarming to know that somebody somewhere is trying to think of the people that they’re reaching out to.”

Given the choice of pronoun, I assume that Michelle is transgender, although he/she may simply be a weird pronoun person.


In either case, this is ridiculous.

I firmly believe there are contest for the dumbest, most ridiculous, silliest, most unbelievable Woke idea. Probably bets going on by the liberal elite on this action.
Some of this $#@! is above and beyond all common sense.
What about father's day? Or people who have bad memories of Christmas? Have a certain illness and don't want to be reminded by drug adds? Lost a family member to OD and don't want to hear anything about opioid epidemic?
Good grief, people need to get a grip.

[stjames1_53]

You think that giving people on mass distribution emails lists the option to opt out of some emails is "pandering"? Seriously?

read post number 42
You were the one bellyaching over simple $#@!, ya know.
If you don't like the way the internet is run, stay the hell off of it.

[donttread]

It's real. It's been going around for a few years, but it looks like it's catching on more now. The idea behind it is to keep from hurting the feelings of women who have lost children, had miscarriages, or simply could never get pregnant.

But the thing is -- life happens and they're going to have to deal with their pain and get past it. I remember taking my daughter into the YMCA a few weeks after she was born, and I knew a lot of people there because I worked out a lot so everyone was coming over wanting to hold her and cooing over her the way women do. Except one woman ran out of the Y and I didn't find out until later that seeing my baby overwhelmed her because she'd had multiple miscarriages.

But, that story had a good ending. A few years later she had a baby boy. And, guess what? She brought him into the Y.

But anyway, that's what's behind the sentiment. It's designed to come from a caring place but as commercialized as our holidays are--there's no way to totally avoid Mother's Day. And that reminds me--I need to come up with something creative to do for my mom!

But you could apply that logic to about anything, some of which I mentioned in post 45 before this one. I mean I'm all for less e-mail adds, but on the other had I like free e-mail accounts