LensCrafters Bows To The PC Gods, Offers Nine Different Marital Status Choices

[Busybody]

Why does LensCrafters need to know you martial status to sell you glasses? Do glasses fit differently if you’re a polygamist?

Via PJ Media:


If you list your marital status as “Interlocutory,” LensCrafters wants you to feel included. Polygamists, too.

Today at LensCrafters I was handed an iPad and instructed to “update my medical history” prior to my eye exam. Purportedly for the sake of greater efficiency and accuracy, I was confronted with screen after screen of repetitive requests for information, most of which should have already been in their database. I had to type in my home address no less than three times. (Can we all agree that any computer programmer who creates such an illogical and repetitive form should be banished to the computer programmer equivalent of Gitmo — perhaps an endless loop of Disney’s “It’s a Small World” ride with only a dial-up modem?)

In addition to the repetitive requests for my address and phone number(s!!) were more intrusive demographic questions, including an inquisition about my race and ethnic background.

And right there on the very first screen was a mini-interrogation about the intimate details of my marital status. Am I married? Divorced? Widowed? Never Married? Interlocutory?

 

[Busybody]

If you list your marital status as “Interlocutory,” LensCrafters wants you to feel included. Polygamists, too.

Today at LensCrafters I was handed an iPad and instructed to “update my medical history” prior to my eye exam. Purportedly for the sake of greater efficiency and accuracy, I was confronted with screen after screen of repetitive requests for information, most of which should have already been in their database. I had to type in my home address no fewer than three times. (Can we all agree that any computer programmer who creates such an illogical and repetitive form should be banished to the computer-programmer equivalent of Gitmo — perhaps an endless loop of Disney’s “It’s a Small World” ride with only a dial-up modem?)

In addition to the repetitive requests for my address and phone number(s!!) were more intrusive demographic questions, including an inquisition about my race and ethnic background.

And right there on the very first screen was a mini-interrogation about the intimate details of my marital status. Am I married? Divorced? Widowed? Never Married? Interlocutory?

Inter…what?

We’ve all become accustomed to intrusive questions about our personal lives when we’re accosted by the endless forms, without which, we’re told, life as we know it will come to a grinding halt. Years ago doctors asked about your marital status so they’d know where to send the bill and they asked about your race and ethnic background solely because there were certain diseases and disorders endemic to some ethnicities.

Is LensCrafters making a grand statement about the definition of marriage? Perhaps. Or maybe the form is just a reflection of where we are as a culture. Either way, when a company recognizes “Polygamy” as a marital status, it cannot escape making a powerful cultural statement at this historical moment of marital revolution.

But these days, it’s much more likely that a company is asking you “demographic” questions — and even questions about your “health” — because they are data mining. The more they know about your personal life, the better they can “serve” you, they would say. There is a gold mine of data for marketers who learn that you list your marital status as “Interlocutory” (which is apparently some sort of legal purgatory between marriage and divorce) because it will influence your buying habits. Likewise, if you’re a 50-year-old man who claims to have multiple wives, your purchasing decisions will be different than those of a never-married female in her 20s.

I suspect that LensCrafters won’t turn away customers who refuse to reveal their marital status or other purely demographic data, and hopefully, they won’t give me the wrong glasses if I accidentally checked “Interlocutory” instead of “Married.” After all, it’s not my fault those checkboxes were so tiny, so there’s an outside chance that I registered as a 16-year-old polygamous, African American male of Serbian ethnicity with questionable near vision.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

PC has only one Gawd, she is Gaia and everyone must be forced into a vow of eternal poverty in order to keep her earth pure and pristine. Killing yourself would be an awesome start.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Either way, when a company recognizes “Polygamy” as a marital status, it cannot escape making a powerful cultural statement at this historical moment of marital revolution.

Yes the statement that not everyone is a RW theocon zealot......and they understand that. Fucking crazy right?

PC has only one Gawd, she is Gaia and everyone must be forced into a vow of eternal poverty in order to keep her earth pure and pristine. Killing yourself would be an awesome start.

And then there is this tin foil hat wearing dip shit....where even changing your name up is a libubhurl plot to destroy the moral fabric of humanity so Obama can send commie death squads after Peepaw.

 

[Busybody]

You are fucked up

 

[badbabysitter]

so you're against a customer being able to purchase something they want from a company that's willing to sell it

 

[Busybody]

so you're against a customer being able to purchase something they want from a company that's willing to sell it

You are fucked up

 

[badbabysitter]

You are fucked up

says the guy that hates the free market

 

[Busybody]

Fuck off nigger

 

[BotanyBoy]

You are fucked up

*shrug* Polygamy isn't something new high speed....just b/c a company recognizes it exists doesn't make it some diabolical commie plot to destroy M'uricuh because Kenya!!!

It means they are trying to cater to a larger market....capitalism mother fucker..... why does that freak you out so bad? You some kinda commie or some shit?

Fucking morons.....

I can't count how many times you and your conservative buddies on the RW freak shit because capitalism doesn't fit your tight ass'ed ConserviChristian theocon idea of what our culture SHOULD be instead of capitalizing off of what it ACTUALLY is. Then you get your panties in such a fucking twist like no fucking other when someone makes mo' money off of it.

Benjamins don't lie, they are all that matters.....business's can and should cater to every market they can, including ones your religious values disagree with like drugs, sex and rock n' roll.

so you're against a customer being able to purchase something they want from a company that's willing to sell it

They hate freedom and capitalism....much like ISIS they wish to destroy freedom and capitalism in favor of a theocratic set of laws that fit their idea of how others should be living their lives, because morality and values....whatever the not getting paid fucking shit that is about.

Personally I think if there are a fuck load of gay polygamist wanting to do outdoor butt fuck bonanza parties, then I should be allowed to sell them condoms, E tabs and OJ.....run my orchards because I like the country farmer lifestyle but go down and flip a key of coke every week at the local W.A.S.P nest because freedom god damn it. The money all spends the same. Gay polygamist, ultra conservative coke head Christians, I should be able to take all their fucking money.

But BB sayz no....he hates capitalism....it's a PC liburhal conspiracy!!

 

[Busybody]

yes, NIGGER Shitter and NIGGER Bootay....the point of the thread is that BB hates free markets?

my goodness, the NIGGERISH spreads thru you like never before