LGBT people also drink water, you know. Are you also going to stop buying it? Chasten Buttigieg
Chasten Buttigieg, who is married to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, spoke out against people who are boycotting Anheuser-Busch because of the Bud Light ad with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
On Monday, Chasten went on Twitter to talk to the people who had chosen to stop buying the alcoholic drink in the blue can with the foamy top.
Buttigieg told his Twitter followers, “Start putting your tears in a bottle” if they were upset that a beer company was speaking out for civil rights. Even LGBTQ people have to drink water. Will that be the next thing you won’t buy?
Buttigieg was talking about the negative reactions to the beer company’s decision to honor and work with Mulvaney, a social media star known for her project “365 Days of Girlhood.”
As trans activist Mulvaney said earlier this month, Anheuser-Busch sent her packs of Bud Light with her face on the can to celebrate her first year of “girlhood.”
When the news came out, there was a lot of pushback. Some people said the ads were just another way to spread gender propaganda.
After a video of conservative singer Kid Rock hitting multiple cases of Bud Light went popular online, many people called for a boycott of Bud products.
Travis Tritt, a well-known country singer, said that he would no longer include Anheuser-Busch products in his hospitality contract. Tritt says that many other famous people are doing the same thing behind closed doors.
People on Twitter had different thoughts about what Buttigieg said. Some people said, “God, this is a stupid tweet,” while others said things like, “So your idea of “civil rights” is a man taking a woman’s place because he keeps up the worst stereotypes of what a misogynist thinks it means to be a woman?”
Buttigieg recently spoke out against policies of the Republican Party that ban transgender medicines and medical treatments for children and ban sexually explicit books from school libraries.
In March, he went on “The View” and said that the United States is in a “extremely dangerous time.”
He also said, “It’s been a well-organized, well-funded plan to attack the LGBTQ+ community, especially through book bans.”