I boycotted Chik-Fil-A before it was cool.
Well, okay, it wasn’t actually a boycott.
Boycott implies some organized effort, publicity, and telling other
people to join you. I just quit going
there in something like 2009 (I remember very clearly the last time I was in
one, because an airman who looked exactly
like Freddie Mercury came in right before I was going to leave, but I
stayed a little longer to bask in the glory of his moustache).
I quit going for many reasons, some big, some
small. From keeping the drinks behind
the counter so I was essentially beholden to a fast food worker for refills (I hate that) to the unbearable bourgeoisie
air on up to, yes, S. Truett Cathy’s position on marriage equality &
generally irksome brand of Christianity (evangelicals are most guaranteed to
send me over the edge; apologies to those of my readers who are), it became
obvious that this just wasn’t a place for me or my family to go. This isn’t to say I haven’t considered a stop
there, ‘cause waffle fries, but that just isn’t enough to pull me in.
So you can imagine my bemusement when the “news”
of Cathy’s opposition to marriage equality hit it big. Again, this was a factor in my decision to
eschew the restaurant three years ago. It’s not information that hasn’t been out
there, but all of a sudden boycotting Chik-Fil-A because of anti-gay sentiment is
a cause celébrè on Facebook, complete with histrionic “If you support
Chik-Fil-A, defriend me
now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” declarations.
I find this last bit richly stupid, for the
record. If you have people on your
friends list who are against marriage equality, and CFA’s stance is so
abhorrent to you, why are they even there to be defriended? If they are good people in spite of their
opposition to this one thing, why does support of a restaurant change things
for you?
To say nothing of the fact that a lot of people
are fucking hypocrites about it. I
strongly suspect there is an inverse relationship between how hysterical a
person is about others’ support of CFA now and the likelihood I could dig into
their timeline and find a check-in there a year ago. It’s almost as though being anti-gay is okay as long as Facebook doesn’t know about it.
Color me unimpressed.
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