The temperature of the following hot take is incredibly high, so it comes with an oven mitt warning before attempting to handle this:
Tanning salons could be targeting gay men by opening in LGBT neighborhoods, putting them at risk of cancer https://t.co/6hy8hltrKu
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 5, 2019
Wow, it seems that a Catch-22 has been created:
Tanning salon chooses not to open a salon in an LGBT neighborhood = discrimination
Tanning salon chooses to cater to LGBT wish for salon close to home = putting them at risk of cancer
— Judgmental Cornpop (@DocKilmer) October 5, 2019
Imagine the Newsweek spin if a Chick-fil-A opened in an LGBT neighborhood!
This is the stupidest headline I've ever read.
And I've read a lot of them. https://t.co/T2yNxGyUnt
— chad John Wallis – virgin Newton (@ChadJohnWallis) October 5, 2019
The replies to your article aren't very positive, @kashmiragander
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 5, 2019
It’s an epic ratioing:
That's called market research. How is this in any way sinister?
— Isla Mae (@MarcelaAurelias) October 5, 2019
Have you all ever heard of supply and demand??
— zeke (@EzkMorales) October 5, 2019
When you have no idea how businesses work, you come up with idiotic nonsense like this.
Did it ever occur to you knuckleheads that they're opening in LGBT neighborhoods because LGBT people, especially gay men, might tan more than other people? https://t.co/gQaVO46Ebr
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) October 5, 2019
I really can't believe someone actually wrote this.
— CRB82 (@bliss1982) October 5, 2019
Recommended
"targeting" = going where there is a demand for the service https://t.co/NUF7Qoghfb
— (((RichardGCombs))) (@rgcombs) October 5, 2019
The Straightriarchy is sneaky. https://t.co/cK8jV90qQR
— Mike Partyka (@MichaelJPartyka) October 5, 2019
The connections these stories try to make get more and more insane every day.
Tomorrow: "Pencils! Tools of Oppression" https://t.co/ovNYRmQheD
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) October 5, 2019
Did the memo go out that "Big Tan" is the new designated target? https://t.co/vY9SJjuuSr
— Cranky Gordon (@StillCrankyAF) October 5, 2019
Whoever paid $1 for you got ripped off
— Duchess of Birthday Months AnnaD (@AnnaDsays) October 5, 2019
Those homophobes really play the long game…..
— Atnor (@Atnor) October 5, 2019
Here’s Newsweek’s next assignment:
Now do abortion clinics https://t.co/NS5SkbM1k7
— Robert Kroese (@robkroese) October 5, 2019
::Crickets::
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