Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/business/gay-water-launch/index.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world496
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I like the idea. As a straight guy who drinks vodka and soda/tonic I get told my drink is gay from time to time. Now nobody will feel the need to inform me since it's printed right on the can.
They'll still point it out to you.
My husband gets told there are pronouns on his badge all the time, as if he didn't know they were there.
This comment made me laugh out aloud at home.
The official beverage of getting drunk and trying stuff
Well everyone, time to go fetch a frog and test something
How is the mascot not a gay frog?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9PJsS3-EY
Grift water
Yeah, I kind of hate that somehow refusing to buy shitty dishwater beer is now a conservative political statement.
The"statement"is a dumb as they are
I'd rather drink goat piss than bud right.
Most things are better than Bud Light.
Schmooze booze.
I'm fine with marketing to gay people, but this feels like pandering.
All marketing is pandering. This company just saw a huge niche that hadn't yet been filled and jumped in. You're not wrong that it's somewhat exploitative, but all products are to some extent.
Fair play to them, as a real ale drinking Brit, I wouldn't touch this or bud light with a bargepole, but if it a corp outwardly supporting LGBT rights then I hope it does well.
Your ales taste great but I can't get used to the low carbonation.
The low carbonation is what I love about them, I do like some lagers but drinking them all day is too much gas, lol.
Of the stuff I had on draft in the UK, Fuller's was by far my favorite; what we get with that name in the US is presumably a forgery.
But I also share the Yank problem of not liking the hand-pump level of fermentation. I've tried it a bunch, just not for me.
I don't drink much lager, usually either Belgians or IPAs :)
At first I read it as "Gray Water" and thought it was a terrible idea.
Pro tip: always have at least two on hand. That way you drink one to turn gay and then you can drink another to become gay gay. It then cancels out to straight again.
I thought the antidote to gay drinks would be flavorless torture protein shit like Soylent or whatever
I'm sure gay people hate terrible tasting protein rich liquids............
Why did they add coconut? I miss original
Honestly I'm just glad to hear people recognizing that Anheuser-Busch isn't a trans icon or even queer friendly.
A mildlyinteresting community but you can post with links? I love Lemmy
Bi people like me, on the other hand, need constant validation. Where's my bi water???
Dr Pepper.
Red bull
It's rainbow capitalism, sure, but if someone is going to make money selling rainbow cans with alcohol in them, at least this is outside of pride month and owned by an actual gay person. It's more genuine than rainbow cans of bud light, at least.
And the more successful Gay Water is, the more this can be an easy response to that dumbass "go woke go broke" shit.
It mostly seems like a novelty, who is the target customers?
I guess:
It could be fun if this ends up being a big brand name.
SNL did it
I’d try some Gay Water out of curiosity (if it’s zero sugar), but last weekend when I had a Truly, I had an imploding headache five hours later that was so bad I wanted to die. I think I’ll pass on this and all hard seltzers, because I’m a super lightweight. Heh.
#HangoversSuck
Probably it's just bottom shelf booze using the Bud Light controversy for sales
I read through the article to see if any money was going to gay/trans right activism. If it is the article doesn't mention it, and it isn't on their (admittedly not yet filled out) website. Recognition is good in that "acceptance" in capitalism means you think you'll make more money than non-recognition. But that's the symptom of things going the right direction, not the cause. If it's the best seltzer in your opinion go for it, but unless they're giving back to the community they're not actually doing anything.
https://gaywater.com/ for the lazy but distrustful (my people)
@Bardfinn
I don’t have this problem with black spice rum. :3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9PJsS3-EY
I'd love me some Gay Homo Water, hopefully, it comes to Canada.
u a gay. y a u gay?
Why does food and consumables suddenly have to become political?
When will my Steak have Trumps Face printed on it? Do my cornflakes need some jets and other kind of political messages on it? Fuck no.
I just want to eat and drink. And the only thing I need to know from the packaging is what the product is about. Just stop making food political, what the hell is wrong with this world.
Some stupid print on the package is not going to fix this world in any way.
There is no driver of division to rival missionary behaviour.
Being gay isn't political..
It shouldn't be.
Unfortunately everyone is trying to make it political which just restricts gay ppl and damages politics in a brand new.
If being gay was just a trait again, we could skip a lot of this circus. But until then, honk honk.
The people "trying to make it political" are the ones who want it to go away - ie, the bigots, who somehow always seem to be on the right wing. Everyone else has to push back because failing to do so means bending to the will of the bigots.
If you want it to stop being political, your energy should be directed against conservatives who keep trying to put people into arbitrary boxes and keep them there.
Yes, thank you. Really surprised to see only one comment saying this.
There are two sexualities: straight and political.
How do you figure that? Do you say the same about races too or?
It's a joke.
Homophobia is political, yes.
Like 15 years ago.
(ㆆ _ ㆆ) why am I not surprised…
If 5 letters fit on the package, Trump has probably tried to sell it.
The real question is whether they came with free ketchup or not.
Never mind. I just used the word "free" with respect to Trump. That definitely never happened.
Blame Republicans. They got upset bud light sent a personalized can or two to someone. At least with democrats and liberals when they say boycot someone it's for a good reason. Like fuck nestle.
Couldn't have said it better.
The only reason you know this exists is because you’re on social media reading about it. You’d probably never see this in a store, and if you did it’d be one whole six-pack next to the hundreds of others brands.
I think you may be overreacting, but who knows maybe Gay Water is the next Coca-Cola.
These kinds of products are made pretty much only for pictures to be posted on social media, so if it bothers you maybe don’t browse as much idk
I don't really think this is fundamentally different from how it's always been. Food and drink has always had branding, and I don't see how gay water is truly that much different from any other branding. The only difference I see is that republicans won't stop complaining about it
How would you react if someone prints Jesus Christ, hanging on the cross with bloody hands and feet onto your favourite beer. With a face of pure agony and some letters addressing charity?
Or how would you react if some company prints advertisement of Scientology onto their products.
The only thing that belongs onto a product is something to identify the brand, the expiry date, and what it actually contains.
I'd probably just buy a different beer and get on with my life. So long as they're not using their product to actively promote bigotry in society, there's no reason for me to care.
That sounds quite metal tbh for beer. I would give it a go.
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"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid." - Mercedes Lackey
These companies do it to sell product, not because they actually do or don't believe in some political agenda. If it works to sell more product, then they are going to do it regardless of how repulsive some niche group in a far corner of the internet finds it.
It's simply on there because they think it will sell more product
Trump Burger You cannot escape
This is just disturbing. It’s almost as weird as Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop products.
Must be nice to not have to worry about representation.
What for do you need representation? I don’t need it. I don’t even know what should or could represent me.
I don’t identify with anything. I am just my self as I am. What use would it have to identify with something? None.
It’s purely corporations trying to make capital gains off cultural phenomena (useless currents that will fizzle out just to get replaced with the next trend - LGB was followed by LGBT and was followed by LGBTQIA+++, it’s the endless progression of a subculture, something big corporation can milk like Star Wars or any other brandable shit), it’s like some Christian dumbass buying a beer because some tortured guy is printed on it.
It has become so laughable nowadays, that Id imagine only some “woke” boomers would fall for it. But nope. Tons of stupid people from all age groups are celebrating their own belief of being rebellious and innovative, or shall I say the belief to improve the world. And big corporations love it. They love the drama and the attention they can generate with the trend hunters.
Your privilege is showing, mate! Tuck that shit in, nobody wants to see that.
Don't encourage the cishet white ignoramus. You'll lose a shoe wading through that shit.
Its pretty recent that normal companies havs become explicitly poltical, because if they don't partipate, they're seen as part of the problem.
Yea. And by doing so they just reinforce the problematics. People just need to stop with missionary behaviour. On both sides.
Food and drink are incredibly political in general, this is just one aspect of it.
You're full of enough hot takes to melt steel. Phobia means extreme aversion or fear. Your assertion that something does not exist does not mean it does not exist.
Phobia is not just a fear but an aversion to something.
"Irrationally and disproportionately" doing a LOT of work there.
If you don't care to actively support trans people, "polite indifference" is the only other appropriate response, as they're not hurting anybody by simply existing - mind your own business and let them mind theirs.
There are all these Christian fundamentalists who have been told all their lives they'll go to hell if they're not one hundred percent completely straight all the time, and God sees them and knows what they're thinking. Assuming there's a biological element to homosexuality, a large portion of these people are not completely straight from nature's side. Assuming people are often excited by taboos, they might secretly be more bi-curious (or whatever the word is) than the average population.
For these people, every single step towards gay and trans rights is making it a little bit harder to live in complete denial. They cannot simply ignore it, because they're obsessed with it. One improper thought and they'll burn in hell.
Of course this crowd is terrified of trans people.
You probably think that "sunrise" means the sun is literally moving upward too, don't you?
Fear often leads to violence. I assume you've heard of the fight or flight response? Some people avoid, others confront. Both are based on fear.
You:
Also you:
* proves there's such thing as transphobia. *
You're a special one aren't you?
As bad as this take is, I actually do think transphobic is too light of a term for these assholes. Transphobic can imply to some people that its not their fault for being disgusting in some way. We don't call racist nazis 'racephobic', 'blackphobic', or 'jewphobic'. We need a harsher term to label them is what I'm getting at. I will just refer to them as bigots for now.
You know what there is? Hatred. And people that reject other people for who they are need to get out more and realize we are all just people.
Did you crawl out from under that rock just to comment before going right back??
Well shit, I'm going to demand a refund for the waterproofing spray I just bought!
It says "hydrophobic" but by god I used it and my tent still ain't afraid of no water!!!!1111