LOL!!!! Not Tony the Tiger, too!!!!

[CatWoman]

Conservatives Are Now Boycotting Kellogg's After Tony The Tiger Took A Photo With Dylan Mulvaney

Anti-trans right-wingers are calling for a boycot of Kellogg's because Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger took a photo with trans influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney.

Tony is a cartoon tiger occasionally played by an actor in a tiger suit for public appearances.

The right boycotted Bud Light for having Mulvaney post a 49-second Instagram ad for the company earlier this year. This time there is no collaboration taking place.

The offending photo took place at last weekend's Tony Awards when Mulvaney almost ran into Tony the Tiger on the red carpet.

https://www.comicsands.com/conservatives-boycotting-kellogs-tony-mulvaney-2661582397.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1687283549

[vercetti2021]

1. Anti trans activists? Calling them terrorists

These people need to go touch fucking grass. Sometimes I'm convinced these assholes are jealous that us trans women are fucking sexy and we still won't date these troglodytes if our lives depended on it. Motherfuckers need a new flavor of the week. Trans people still kicking and enjoying ourselves

[Hortensis]

2. Keep it up, guys. The more, the sillier.

😄

[John1956PA]

3. Tony's reply: "GRRRREAT!"

TTT has been a breakfast meal icon for as long as I can remember.

[CatWoman]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[John1956PA]

7. Tony has earned his stripes. The transphobic crowd, not so much.

I have a part-time job stocking groceries. I see Tony's image when I stock cereal boxes in the breakfast aisle. He is an effective mascot for Kelloggs.

[flvegan]

4. No more Pop Tarts or Cheez-Its for you!

Kellogg's owns them. And you can Snap, Crackle and Pop the fuck off! No whimsical "leggo my Eggo" either. Same reasons.

What absolute idiots.

[Enter stage left]

5. Uhhhh...describe "snowflakes" again...

[Blue Owl]

8. Frosted Snowflakes

[MagickMuffin]

9. The offending photo took place at last weekend's Tony Awards

That sentence stood out to me.


Only the weak are truly offended.

[niyad]

10. note to self: buy frosted flakes. . .the squirrels will love it!

[TheBlackAdder]

11. The origins of Kellogg's Corn Flakes later used to help stop masturbation which causes insanity.

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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, one of America’s first wellness gurus, helped lead the movement toward cleaner living. Raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which believed in the imminent end of the world and the second coming of Christ, Dr. Kellogg had been groomed by the church’s founders to be a leader in the faith. In 1876, he took over a church-founded health institute in Battle Creek, Michigan, which he built into the world-famous medical spa and resort known as the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Building on Adventist health principles like eating a vegetarian diet and avoiding alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, Kellogg’s philosophy of “biologic living” emphasized regular exercise, massage therapy and drinking plenty of water. He focused particularly on patients’ digestive health, decrying the evils of fatty, greasy, salty or spicy foods—and endorsing regular powerful enemas to clear out one’s digestive tract. Having studied gorillas in zoos, and seeing that they had four to five bowel movements a day, he prescribed his patients to do the same—and tried to serve foods that would help that process along.

https://www.history.com/news/cereal-breakfast-origins-kellogg

Bullough shows that physical mutilation, bizarre harnesses, and electrical devices were all used to try and put a stop to masturbation. (By the 1930s, medical science began to move away from this curious theory.)

John Harvey Kellogg, meanwhile, opted for a less invasive remedy than, for example, the “special hobbles” designed to prevent girls from spreading their legs. Kellogg prescribed “biological living” and a bland diet including his special creation, corn flakes. His younger brother, W. K. Kellogg, was the one to mass produce, copyright, and market the doctor’s corn flake product (leaving out the original claim that it would curtail masturbation), creating the Kellogg’s brand we know today.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/

Snopes delves further to clarify that Corn Flakes were not invented as an Anti-masturbatory cereal or ever advertised as such, but reinforces that is was used as part of a bland and unstimulating diet as one method to reduce or eliminate masturbation.

Kellogg identified multiple purported causes and harms related to the habit of masturbation, many of which would appear laughably unscientific to a modern reader. Among the causes he listed were "exciting and irritating food," and stimulants such as tea, coffee, wine, beer, and tobacco.

He also listed several purported "cures" and "treatments" for the practice, one of which related to diet. Kellogg believed a strong, direct link existed between the food and drink one consumed and the thoughts and urges one had. He outlined in the book what he described as "the most simple, pure and unstimulating diet" as a means to prevent or bring to an end a tendency towards masturbation: "A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought."
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However, Kellogg did have a broader, over-arching interest in simple, plain, bland foods — for the general health benefits he saw in them, but also specifically because he believed they could prevent or suppress sexual thoughts and urges, and he explicitly prescribed a "simple, pure and unstimulating diet" (of which corn flakes could quite plausibly form a part), as one of several methods aimed at preventing and ultimately eliminating the practice of masturbation.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kelloggs-corn-flakes-masturbation/

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[tanyev]

12. At this rate they're not gonna have anything left to eat or drink.

Oh well.

[Goodheart]

13. Would be nice if they boycotted ALL foods and beverages

and starved themselves out.

I'm surpised they haven't yet boycotted Twinkies just because of the product name.