After the blow-up over Bud Light, the nation’s beer drinkers were apparently in no mood for a self-flagellating Miller Lite ad campaign apologizing for its history of scantily clad spokesmodels.
brand found itself caught in the Bud Light backlash after conservative podcaster Joe Rogan ripped a newly resurfaced video from March featuring feminist comedian Ilana Glazer leading the Miller Lite anti-bikini reckoning.
“Miller Lite, like Bud Light, chose to make a political statement instead of keeping their eye on the ball and providing a great product,” said Few products are more closely identified with traditional men than beer, which may help explain why the Bud Light boycott has succeeded where past calls for conservative boycotts of products like M&M’s and companies such as Target and Keurig have not.celebrating the TikTok celebrity’s “365 Days of Girlhood,” dropping nearly 25% year-over-year for the week ending May 13, according to Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen IQ data cited by The New York Post.
In 2019, Telfer became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA women’s title at the Division II track-and-field championships. Telfer was ruled ineligible to compete in the 2021 U.S. Olympic trials after the international track-and-field authority lowered its testosterone threshold for women’s events.
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