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Kellogs introduces a cereal that combines tooth-rotting sugar with propaganda. Winner!
Kellogg’s, in a partnership with the LGBTQ+ media organization GLAAD, has released a Pride-themed cereal called Together With Pride.
Retailing for $4, Together With Pride will be on supermarket shelves in May, just prior to the month of LGBTQ+ festivities. For every purchase, Kellogg’s will donate $3 to GLAAD. For the donation to occur, patrons must upload a copy of their receipt to KelloggsFamilyRewards.com.
The 7.8-ounce box is full of a rainbow variety of heart-shaped cereal bites and even edible glitter. Kellogg’s famous cereal figures are gathered on the exterior illustration, including Toucan Sam, Tony the Tiger, and the Rice Krispies elves, Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
The caption on the box reads:
“We believe that all young people and those young at heart deserve an environment where they can grow up to be their best selves. That’s why we’ve joined forces with GLAAD by going purple on Spirit Day to stand up against bullying in all forms, and support a more accepting world for LGBTQ youth.”
British railway forbids conductors from greeting passengers in “binary terms”
A train company has told its conductors to avoid greeting passengers with the words 'ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls' after a complaint by a 'non-binary' passenger.
London North Eastern Railway said it would 'review if any further changes need to be made' - and tweeted that it would encourage staff to speak 'with no gender mentioned' to avoid offending passengers identifying as neither male nor female.
It comes after the passenger, South Western Railway train guard Laurence Coles, complained about a conductor who greeted travellers with 'ladies and gentlemen'.
LNER promised to take action after replying to the tweet by Laurence, who is also a rail union LGBT representative, that they had felt excluded by the announcement.
You might think that “ ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls”, would be inclusive of normal people, transvestites, and frolicking gay folks of all ages, and satisfy the entire spectrum of human sexuality, but you’d be wrong; the 0.00001 percent of humans who can’t make up their mind about what sex they’ve chosen that morning felt excluded. Do you ever get the feeling that there are certain whackos out there who go through life just looking to be offended? What ever happened to that grand old British expression, “Sod off, Swampy”?
