"Skittles blasted over new pro-LGBTQ packaging"

So weird that we have all these ‘Queer’ kids claiming to be anti capitalist anarchist punks but at the same time the big corporations are using LGBT symbolism to flog product.

Yeah "supporting Pride" is a dumb reason to boycott anything.

I have never bought Nestlé since baby killing scandle either. No Milky bar for us.

Sounds like Skittles will be my next boycott. I don't eat them but I'll buy DGC something else when I see them.

Dreamies. I boycott Dreamies. As noted above, it's not so much a 'boycott' as an 'oh, fuck OFF'.

And Nestle, of course, because they are evil and I will never forgive them for killing babies.

So I certainly wouldn't avoid companies just because they support Pride or highlight LGBT issues, but the more that message becomes weighted T more than LGB, and the more the rhetoric moves towards "most marginalised", "hate" etc, the less inclined I'm going to be to spend many with that brand. I don't feel especially inclined to fund my own erasure thank you.

Yep that's how I feel. I don't boycott per se, but at the end the day spending my money with companies who despise and disempower women and girls (in the strictly birth sex meaning of the words) isn't something I want to do.

Totally agree miri
The skittles campaign doesn’t bother me particularly, but then I don’t buy them anyway. I do respond to stuff like Oxfam, the Costa campaign and DM boot design - I don’t boycott as such, just I don’t generally choose to support brands which celebrate abusing/mutilating women. So that’s just marketing really, brands project an image which they think their customers will want to be associated with, and customers respond

I agree the original campaign with the white skittles was clever and I imagine drove sales because it was interesting to not know what flavour they were rather than anything to do with pride. I can't tell from the posted packaging are the skittles inside that packaging white or normal?

I hate rainbow washing like this, not a single person is going to become more tolerant because skittles changed their packaging, if they want to do something they should take the money they spend on redoing the packaging and give it to organisations who help gay people in countries where its illegal

If I take on a boycott it's a major deal and I think it through. The only one I do now is Nestle and that's been something I've done since I was 16. [Meanwhile they've gone from strength to strength commercially but whatever].

I'm not boycotting any product because they do Pride in some form, why would I? I reserve the right to dislike some things and to be annoyed when they're obviously going for publicity in any form (cf Costa) but if they genuinely think that will boost their sales, they can fill their boots. I will be honest though, I haven't gone to Costa since. I'm not boycotting but that image made me sad and I don't want to feel sad while paying £4 for a coffee.

We need to be really clear that being gender critical is a pro-LGB position. Which does not align with mad gun people shooting bud-light cans. Or hating rainbow sweets.

Hmm. I must confess, I always thought making Skittles plain coloured for Pride was charming. Some real thought was put into that on Skittles' part. I like campaigns and brand endorsements that truly tap into the product's nature. I much prefer those to lazy ones that just slap a logo on.

But I say this as someone who doesn't like the taste of Skittles. Their actual customers may have been less thrilled by last year's campaign.

A boycott is as ridiculous as commercializing pride.

Saying that, it is tedious to be bombarded with that stuff everywhere.

They've been doing that Skittles Pride thing for years. Their strapline is Taste The Rainbow. It would be more weird if they didn't get involved.

I'm not going to boycott sweeties for no good reason except those soft Skittles, they're rank.