Letters to the Editor — April 11, 2023
The Issue: Gender extremism displayed by TikTok influencers, universities and huge global corporations.
Based on your article, there is a good thing called buying power that makes our country great (“If it ain’t woke, they fix it,” Apr. 8).
Once again, corporations, out of greed, will stop at no cost to increase sales. However, in this case, it’s always a business mistake of slick marketing, not generating sales from customer satisfaction.
The consumer boycott is the only tool to counter this marketing strategy. I stopped buying Budweiser and Nike gear immediately, and as time goes on, more consumers will do the same. Store owners will select other beers to sell.
This opens up opportunities for competitors to increase their access to the markets. This expansion of boycotting will force the companies to rethink gaining a small population segment but losing the larger market.
Greg Raleigh
Washington, DC
Stop referring to Dylan Mulvaney as “she.” He is still a man.
No matter how many cosmetic surgeries he has, how many female hormones he takes, how much makeup he applies or how many women’s clothes he wears, he’ll always be a man.
Rick Robinson
Hampton Bays
It’s unfortunate so many outlets seem to portray Dylan Mulvaney in the negative.
If Mulvaney were only exploiting being a woman as a strange fetish, then I’d understand some of the negative press. But both sides of the media are making too much of this. If these companies want to honor trans women via their products, why is that such a bad thing?
Chelli Elizabeth
Manhattan
Trans activists, like those who went after Riley Gaines, must be labeled domestic terrorists (“Gaines floats lawsuit,” Apr. 10).
They are an organized, very dangerous group which gains power daily. They shake down corporations for billions. The vice president told them they have special permission to invade and take over Capitol buildings.
Our White House only cared that one was killed while shooting up a school and killing six people (including three children). Who are these people? How and why did they get so much power?
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
The Issue: The vice president’s trip to Tennessee and the expulsion of Democratic state legislators there.
The Post is on point in underscoring how this administration seeks to “disappear” the victims of the Tennessee Covenant School massacre (“Insulting Tenn. Victims,” Editorial, April 10).
It was predictable that Kamala Harris for her visit homed in on those two Tennessee legislators who led a gun-control mob with their bullhorns to disrupt an ongoing legislative session. Talk about a violation of democratic norms!
And how Orwellian for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cry fascism here. A classic case of calling the kettle black.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
As a person who has voted in quite a few elections, I shook my head at the chaotic scene in Tennessee.
Sadly, I have seen no need for what occurred. At a moment when time should have been given to incorporating stiffer laws on schools and their security, it was instead used by a few to have their 15 minutes of fame.
This was not the time or the place to incite animosity. Yet the moment was used for just that.
The memory of the six people killed at the Covenant School should have been their concern. Shame on those who felt the need to make this a circus.
Sharon Cesario
Brooklyn
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