Popular boot maker UGG Footwear has come under fire and faced calls for a boycott after partnering with transgender activists for a Pride collection and campaign.
The company Teamed up Comedian and commentator Alok Vaid Menon, who wants people to call him “they,” spoke at the June launch of his URSeen merchandise line: Newsweek report.
of URSeen Collection The line includes colorful platform slip-on shoes, terrycloth dresses, and children’s slip-on shoes. The company’s website describes the line as unisex, with models for both men and women.
“My childhood was filled with hiding, concealing, disappearing and trying to avoid attention,” Alok Vaid Menon said in a statement about the new line on UGG’s website. “This time, my goal was to create clothes that actually celebrated queer bodies.”
Many people jumped on the collaboration, accusing UGG of exposing children to transgender and gay ideology by making children’s sizes.
TikTok Libs recently highlighted a partnership between a boot manufacturer and a transgender activist.
“UGG @UGG has partnered with Alok Menon for a Pride Month collection and campaign. Alok is a radical transgender activist who has said ‘girls are perverts’ and suggested it’s girls’ fault that men use the bathroom with girls,” the conservative activist said on X.
UGG @Agu We have partnered with Alok Menon for our Pride month collection and campaign.
Alok is a radical transgender activist who says “girls are perverts” and claims that it’s girls’ fault that men share the bathroom with girls. pic.twitter.com/mGLnZkPmXb
— Libs on TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2024
This quote, attributed to Alok, was originally posted on his Facebook site DarkMatter in 2016. Transgender themed poetry With his partner Janani Balasubramanian, however, Vaid-Menon claims that the quote was not written by him, but by Balasubramanian.
In context, the quote was part of a discussion about how transgenderism and homosexuality have been delegitimized out of fear that members of the LGBTQ community would tarnish the “quintessential (white) (cisgender) innocent girl.”
The full quote is as follows:
We absolutely need to challenge the white Christian supremacist right-wing narrative about trans bodies, but we also need to seriously reexamine the idea that perfect victims are everywhere.
I believe in the fundamental idea that girls are complex people, just like the rest of us. There are no fairy tales or princesses here. Girls are queer, trans, kinky, kinky, kind, mean, beautiful, ugly, wonderful, weird. Your child is not as serious or bigoted as you think they are. They are just like everyone else. I was a cute girl. And I was a gender non-conforming young adult. Honestly, wherever I was on that spectrum, I was a complex, weird person.
“Look around you. There are no princesses,” the Facebook post concludes.
The original Facebook account appears to have been closed and is no longer accessible. screenshot The article is there, and Vaid Menon is not disputing the actual quote, he is just claiming that he did not write it.
Alok mentioned the citation controversy three years ago.
“These forces have mistakenly attributed to me a 2016 Facebook post about Girls’ Generation that I did not write. These words, thoughts and life experiences are not mine. The post is an analysis of a film I have never seen, written by a former colleague who was born female, and who states in the body of the post (‘I was a pretty girl’). This has been whitewashed and erased in order to demonise and discredit me,” Vaid Menon said. I have written September 5, 2021.
It seems true that he didn’t write it, but Alok doesn’t deny the message either.
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