"The boycott had a limited impact."

If by "limited" you mean "completely insignificant"...

Disney's already planning a new themed area, to be called "FabulousLand"

I want to ride the Butt Plug!!!

Ah, the "declare victory anyway and get out" ploy. Suspect we'll be seeing that a lot.

In short, they figured out that Disney doesn't care, and that there are only so many Wal-Mart playgrounds the kids can visit before they pitch a fit.

"Disney has reported higher earnings, citing increased attendance at its theme parks"

Obviously due to the fact that there was less likehood of being trapped on a ride next to some AFA member.

Great headline, submiter. Good thing I'm not the only one who thinks Clay Aiken is as queer as a 3 dollar bill.

Torc: Ah, the "declare victory anyway and get out" ploy. Suspect we'll be seeing that a lot.

You mean like this:



/I keed, I keed, he declared victory but didn't get out.
//sorry this gay thread has me feeling flamey.
///bad joke.

damn... now i have to deal with Christians when i go to Disney World...

Scarecrow77:

Good thing I'm not the only one who thinks Clay Aiken is as queer as a 3 dollar bill.

"If I were invisible, I would just watch you in your room"

There go my hopes for a Jesus Crucifixion Ride.

He added that the announcement is not an endorsement of Disney, just an end to the boycott "as a ministry agenda item."

/Am I the only one who shuddered at the phrase "ministry agenda item"?

Clay aiken is teh ghey?

Even though I hate Disney Corp. I loved this bit:
"The boycott had a limited impact. Disney has reported higher earnings, citing increased attendance at its theme parks and strong performance from its film studio and ABC television network."

The Mississippi fascists lose again! WOOT!

It doesn't matter that earnings were up, if they had been down it wouldn't have been because of this group, I've heard of lots of angry little groups boycotting disney, I can't name one. ABC's rating are down, stocks have been down over the past 6 years, returns were only 2%. Who the hell knows why, maybe people are tired of liberal themed TV shows, maybe they like really liberal TV shows and watch the L word instead of broadcast. Why would you even take the time to say a podunk group couldn't affect a multi-billion dollar corporations profits?

"Ah, the "declare victory anyway and get out" ploy."


i belive saddam hussein was the first to employ this stategy. look at his overwhemling victory in the first gulf war.

The boycott had a limited impact. Disney has reported higher earnings, citing increased attendance at its theme parks and strong performance from its film studio and ABC television network.

Maybe non-fundies were relieved that they could go there without being aggressively preached at for a few years. That would explain the increased attendance.

Dammit, Mississippi has a bad enough image WITHOUT the help of companies like these...

Because we all know, equal health benefits for gay partners makes Baby Jesus cry.

"The boycott had a limited impact."

nuff said, move on.

Sun of Thunder
great job on the foreign minister link. i crack up everytime i see that guy.

First time I was EVER glad to see a corporation win.

Common sense:1
Fundie asshats:0

Torc

Ah, the "declare victory anyway and get out" ploy. Suspect we'll be seeing that a lot.

Could you point to the part where they delcared victory? It looks like they just finally realized it was futile.

vvk826: I wonder if that guy knows he's become an internet cliche?

Sactimonious ass holes, why didn't they ever protest the Disney use of child slave labor.

I believe the proper term for Clay Aiken is "queer like a football bat".

Trail Mix: vvk826: I wonder if that guy knows he's become an internet cliche?

His new career is based on it, actually.

Clay Aiken is/might be gay. So what? His Senior project is now a major charity.


/ not a fat pimply stalking Clay-mate
// went to school with him

Torc

Ah, the "declare victory anyway and get out" ploy. Suspect we'll be seeing that a lot.

Yeah, we still have Iran and North Korea to go through

So spending your money on the selfish, hedonistic enjoyment of amusement park rides instead of giving it all to the poor like Jesus commanded is OK? Just as long as the gays aren't allowed?

So how long will it take for all the people in the Cobb County, GA flamewar to head here to spread wildfire??

Stupid boycott.

When I was a kid I was part of a huge patriotic musical production put on at a church. It was harmless and it was a lot of fun, and I was the narrator.

We got an offer to go put on a few songs from the show at Disneyland! I was fired up. All the kids were... there were at least a hundred of us in the huge production and we thought it would be great. Perform a few songs in the park, I would get to narrate, and in exchange we'd get a fun day in Disneyland.

Problem was... a few parents out of this group were idiots who bought into the "Disney" boycott which was popular among "Christian" circles at the time. Never mind that for the reasons these people wanted to boycott Disney, they ought to have boycotted just about every single major company out there.

Those few parents made such a stink about it, the Disneyland trip got cancelled, and we never got to take our little cool musical production anywhere.

Idiots!

I don't hate Disney because they hire gays (I don't have a problem with that). I hate Disney because they like rewriting literature and history in order to profit from the ignorance of children.

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Don't even get me started on ...
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How is this Asinine? A group of people that didn't like what a company was doing decided to boycott the company. When it was determined that the boycott wasn't having an effect they decided it was time to turn their efforts elsewhere.



Ohhhhh, I get it now. This is Fark and they ere a Christian group so they are automaticly wrong for standing up for what they believe in.


It's interesting that the article skims over the reasons for the boycott and only mentions the things most people have no problems with. It completely leaves out things like the Disney corporation actively hiring homosexuals and lesbians over equally qualified Hetrosexual candidates. Not to mention gay day. As a Christian group it is perfectly understandable that these things would upset them. We aren't talking about loud picketing protestors. There was no violence. Just a simple Boycott.

http://www.gayday.com/news/2000/orlando_weekly_000531a.asp

jeffowl

Could you point to the part where they delcared victory?

I guessed that a group like that would never, ever, ever, EVER admit defeat, lest they (and therefore God himself, since they're obviously one-and-the-same) be proven to be less than omnipotent.

And I was right. AFA Webpage:

"We feel after nine years of boycotting Disney we have made our point," AFA President Tim Wildmon said

Espertron: I hate Disney because they bought Congress to extend copyrights (another) 20 years. See Eldred v. Ashcroft.

There must be a battlefield somewhere out in the middle of the Sahara Desert that we could send fundies of every size and stipe to, to duke it out on.

Then, on a perfect planet, the survivors would naturally expire from thirst.

Otherwise, I just don't know how to end the galloping madnesses out to engulf these modern times.

Son of Thunder

Wow. Between this and the removal of the evolution stickers a few threads down, FARK's population of fanatical atheists should be creaming their pants right about now.

Are the fanatical atheists coming to get you? Wooooooooooooo!

Espertron:

I have this debate with a history phd friend of mine occassionally, and I have to keep reminding her that Disney's version of "Pocahontas" is a telling of the legend of Pocahontas, not a documentary about Pocahontas.

(This was my problem with one of the Baptist's complaints about the film, too: They were upset that the movie didn't show Poca converting to Christianity. Well DUH! She didn't convert to Christianity until she was kidnapped and forced to convert -- which isn't something that could be accurately shown in a Disney cartoon.)

And just because Disney's Quasimodo didn't look as ugly as past version (visions) of the character had, well... They were aiming for a much younger audience, and managed to get the essence of the character into kid-friendly form, without losing the "message" of the story.

Hey, there are many reasons to dislike "The Mouse," but the fact that they make their character less ugly than they were in real life or in previous literary version seems silly.

If you want to get angry at movie companies for f-ing up good literature, why not start with the company that decided to give Demi Moore's "The Scarlet Letter" a happy ending!

--Crow and Raccoon

Hacker_X

Ohhhhh, I get it now. This is Fark and they ere a Christian group so they are automaticly wrong for standing up for what they believe in.

No they weren't wrong for standing up for what they believe in. They are wrong because when standing up for what they believe in did not have the desired effect, they decided to sit down. I would have much more respect for them if they continued the boycott even though it was ineffective. Now they are basicly saying, "Our beliefs are only important when people are watching us."

Hacker_X
How is this Asinine?
Because a group of tight-assed pharisees who think they know what's best for everyone were trying to compel a company to be unchristian and anti-human.

This is Fark and they are a Christian group so they are automaticly wrong for standing up for what they believe in.
Well, yes, frankly. But why don't you take just a moment to celebrate Disney for standing up for what Disney (and all decent people) believe in?


As a Christian group . . .
Whoa! They are christian only in the sense that anybody can call himself christian. Cleary these bigots are un-christlike. Perhaps you meant christianist?

Hacker_X:
Ohhhhh, I get it now. This is Fark and they ere a Christian group so they are automaticly wrong for standing up for what they believe in.,

I'm happy that you "get it" now.

Hacker X: how do you know that those people were hired to the company because they were specifically gay? do you have a link to internal company memo's citing that there had to be quota's of gay employees met? What about specific instances? oooooh thats right, its illegal to discriminate in hiring over sexual orientation and that extends to heterosexuals too. And as that article you posted says as far as people having gatherings at the park, they're free to organize that. Anyone can buy a ticket. And c'mon, they're just there doing what everyone else is doing, its not like they're having gay sex on the small world ride. Maybe, just maybe, they might actually like to go on vacation to a theme park, with thier partners and thier kids and not have to cover up the fact that they're gay, maybe *gasp* hold thier partners hand, or even give them a peck on the cheek. Same things that millions of hetero couples go and do every year.
Irregardless i still think that the asinine is a bit misplaced. I dont think its asisnine that they're calling off the boycott, but they're doing it because they dont have the resourse to keep up an ineffective boycott. It'd be better if they were calling it off because they realized that 'teh gays' arent out to destroy our world, and maybe they've just calmed the fark down already.

Hacker_X
It completely leaves out things like the Disney corporation actively hiring homosexuals and lesbians over equally qualified Hetrosexual candidates.

Who else is going to wear all those fruity character costumes and dance around acting like flamboyant, flaming, homo idiots for hours?

Gays take the jobs even straights won't do.

What's wrong with boycotting a company if you don't agree with their policy or actions? I didn't buy gas from Exxon after the valdez oil spill and I know a lot of people who are boycotting Coca-cola for the actions of their latin american bottling plants. Just because they may not hold a popular opinion doesn't make them wrong just of a different mindset no more right or wrong than what yours or mine may be and that is called diversity. For as much as we take the politically correct position of saying we accept anyone be they black, white, jewish, islamic, goofy, or dopey, it looks like we're a little too quick to condemn one groop for their beliefs when they're really not hurting anyone.

TightyWhitey: Gays take the jobs even straights won't do.


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Great, now I might have to listen to fat fundies while I'm trying to have fun at a formerly fundie-free amusement park!

Hope more gay families show up, then we can all party down!

Maybe they'll take a hint and hide out in the hotel..