La Redoute bends under pressure
Recently La Redoute, France's largest mail order company, offered decorative statues of homosexual couples for sale (photo above). The Bloc Identitaire protested in a communiqué dated January 23:
This strategic decision appears unwise for a company in financial crisis and with a mostly traditional clientele. Do the employees and unions of la Redoute share management's business orientation?
Beyond these considerations, the Bloc Identitaire totally condemns this provocation and demands the immediate cessation of this publicity campaign. Otherwise, customers of la Redoute, both regulars and the occasional shopper, will realize that it is best to go elsewhere, to more ethical companies, for their purchases.
We ask all our members and sympathizers, as well as all those fighting against the Socialist law on gay marriage, to call la Redoute and tell them, firmly but courteously, of their displeasure.
Two days later, another communiqué announced victory:
Victory! La Redoute has deactivated the web page offering articles reserved for homosexual marriages.
(…)
The Bloc Identitaire thanks all those who mobilized: it was their calls that allowed this victory.
France, mobilized against a pseudo-normal president, can always count on the Bloc Identitaire, to build a determined and effective resistance.
On a similar note, a reader sent me the following link, showing designer Karl Lagerfeld's contribution (photo below) to haute couture and his current thoughts on the subject of gay marriage.
However, not so long ago, Lagerfeld said he was opposed to gay marriage. An article dated March 19, 2010 at LCI.tf1 reveals his reasoning at the time:
"I am against gay marriage, for the simple reason that, in the 60's, everybody wanted to be different. And now, suddenly, everybody wants a bourgeois life.
For me it is very difficult to imagine one of the fathers at work and the other at home with the baby. How would the child live? I don't know. I can better imagine married lesbians with children than married men with children. And I believe more in relations between mother and child than between father and child.
I don't like the idea of pulling a child from his life and the context of his existence. If I wanted to adopt a child, I would try to find a family for him, and I would give them money, so that the child could be raised in his original context."
No doubt pressures and money considerations brought about a modification in Lagerfeld's expressed views, and resulted in the surreal creation below, that has more than one terrifying aspect - one eye of each woman is covered while the other is blackened, and the child ends up with two weird sisters for mommies.
Labels: Culture, Ethics/Morals, Homosexuality, Resistance
posted by tiberge @ 1:59 AM
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I am certainly no friend of islam. That is why I like your blog and the movement Identitaire. But when you start behaving towards gays like islamic Iran. That is where I get second thoughts.
@ Fubar,
I don't see how I've behaved towards gays like "islamic Iran". The post is first about the Bloc Identitaire that you say you like. Secondly, it was Karl Lagerfeld who in 2010 was critical of gay marriage.
I did express some reservations about Lagerfeld's couture creation and the presentation. For a man who said he would prefer to find a family for an adopted child rather than tear him away from his original context, he certainly depicted a strange "context" for a little boy.
For the record, I'm sorry he veered away from his very intelligent and reasonable comments in 2010.
Don't forget also the stupid tv ad of Renault! Companies like this are going to experience a backlash, as La Redoute has.
Chanel
I wonder how the owners of Chanel see this way of presenting the house of Chanel?
Personally, I like to watch fashion shows. With this photo as such a strong political statement, I was immediately put off Chanel. No need to see their shows for the near future.
@Fubar
Can't you see that the politicians are using "mariage for everybody" as a tool to break down our society?
This is not about your feelings, but about society as such.
Why are people against gay marriage? In a society that is trying to be 'modern' and adapt to change, especially in America, how can people be against this? Especially when (for the most part of hetrosexual people and couples) it won't really have a huge impact on their life. Back to La Redoute, if it gets them sales that can contribute to keeping a company alive and out of failure, then why not? It's only an ornament.
@ Natalie,
Your comment seems to indicate you are very young, or at least you have not absorbed much of Western civilization, its moral values, its ethical standards, its customs and its religious beliefs. But besides that, as we have seen from reports from France, societies that we normally consider backward, such as African and Caribbean nations, are actually much more advanced than our liberal West on the issue of deeply immutable natural laws. Marriage is a sacred institution that binds a man and a woman in matrimony for the purpose of producing offspring. Marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with sexual "orientation" or with love. We, being human, having human emotions, want love from a spouse, so we seek out a person that complements our personality, but that person has to be of the opposite sex so that children can be born. Children need a mother and a father. If you don't realize that I think you would do well to re-consider some of the ideas you have absorbed from the extremely decadent and selfish culture that surrounds you - the media, movies, celebrity cults, etc… Homosexuals should be content with civil unions. In France, civil unions give them the same financial and inheritance rights as marriage would. There is no need for marriage. Think how awful it would be for a child to sleep in a room next to a bedroom where his two "fathers" and possibly other men are indulging in sodomy, and enjoying the taste and odors of excrement. I am not exaggerating. This may not be what will happen in every case, but a government cannot legislate in such a way that this sort of horrible and unnatural behavior becomes not only legal but EQUAL to the normal sexual relations between a man and a woman. Please think about what you are saying. La Redoute wants business, that is normal. It is not normal to propagandize on behalf of a twisted ideology that very few people had even heard of not so long ago. A society can only move forward if it preserves and protects the institutions that gave it life to begin with. It is not "modern" to violate a natural law that is so obvious no other society in history has ever considered doing what the West is doing. Look at the animal world. With very few exceptions animals are fiercely and proudly heterosexual and fight for their mate. We, unfortunately, are in the final stages of our pathetically weak and cowardly culture of the 1960's. This will all be blow away at some point in the future so that a new start can be made.
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