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To never ever buy from Snag again?

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NotMyTights · 17/01/2024 17:06

I'm just beyond disgusted and feel I need to vent.

I've always liked snag tights. I bought vouchers to save them in Lockdown, have spent hundreds with them. Liked their products and ethos- inclusive and female led.

Yesterday I went on their website, can definitely say it's my fault that I clicked on their NSFW collection, but I didn't expect what I found. Patches saying ' chke me' and 'cMSL*t'. Maybe I'm just a pearl clutching prude but I found these really offensive and not what I expect from a company with their ethos. I've put a pic below.

I posted in their Facebook group which I'm on highlighting that I thought this was a misjudgement on their part, that these were very misogynistic, and fed into a culture of violence against women which claims the life of a woman or girl every 11 minutes.

They declined my post and sent me a reply which I'll attach- I'm kink shaming apparently.

I find this really reprehensible and never want to spend a penny with them again!

I never thought I was prudish, whatever adults do between themselves is up to them, but I don't really want to buy from a clothing provider who is promoting this- aibu!?

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FedUpandEatingChocolate · 30/01/2025 21:27

I've spent all day pulling up my pair of snag tights that keep falling down.

This is actually horrendous, there's a real link between "chocking" and abuse/deaths. I would not want to spend my money at a company that profits off this.

Jewishbookwork · 30/01/2025 21:08

CyanRaven · 27/01/2025 15:06

What tights brand are we all using then? I don't think I'll be buying mine from them anymore either

she means she is buying from https://www.bettertights.com/

Thanks for reminding me that i need to replenish my stock. They are great but sadly do not last forever.

Tights and Hosiery | Better Tights

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https://www.bettertights.com

CyanRaven · 27/01/2025 15:06

Stayeduptoolateagain · 17/01/2024 17:13

I've switched to better tights. Look them up. I can vouch for them being better! And cheaper 😁

What tights brand are we all using then? I don't think I'll be buying mine from them anymore either

AdrianGreenwood · 25/01/2025 14:03

happyshineyperson · 25/01/2025 12:55

Are you that weirdo from the snag Facebook group who posts photos wearing tights pulled up over his head to use women in the group to indulge his fetish? Or just some other woman-hating perv?

Ha ha, nice try but no, I just laugh at the crap you come out with, and you didn't counter argue what I said so I know you agree with me. Men wear tights and always have done, you need to get over it.

happyshineyperson · 25/01/2025 12:55

AdrianGreenwood · 25/01/2025 10:20

Yeah, I feel the same way when I see an overweight woman in tights, it's gross 🤮

Are you that weirdo from the snag Facebook group who posts photos wearing tights pulled up over his head to use women in the group to indulge his fetish? Or just some other woman-hating perv?

PrawnDumplings · 25/01/2025 10:49

Stayeduptoolateagain · 17/01/2024 17:13

I've switched to better tights. Look them up. I can vouch for them being better! And cheaper 😁

Ooo thanks! Need more tights. Won't buy snag 👍

AdrianGreenwood · 25/01/2025 10:20

BattyOwl · 17/01/2024 17:13

I'm with you OP. Their tights could be sold for a tenner and made from pure spun gold and encrusted with diamonds and I'd still not buy from this revolting company

Reminds me of the time they used some overweight bearded bloke to coquettishly gaze at the camera in a pair of their tights. Literally gross.

They're more interested in not offending blokes. That's the long and short of it

Yeah, I feel the same way when I see an overweight woman in tights, it's gross 🤮

CapitalKnockers · 30/10/2024 23:02

I posted on this thread last time it was active too, and I too havnt touched their products since. I sunk a lot of money into their advent calendar last year, which wasn't worth the money for me anyway, but I still feel stung by Snag's stance.

Intrigued about this 'sinister info' thing.

NotMyTights · 27/10/2024 18:48

I mean sure, write what you want.

I haven't bought any snags since incidentally, which may not mean much to them but it's a couple of hundred pounds that have gone elsewhere.

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purpleme12 · 27/10/2024 10:55

If she had information she'd just post it

It's just a fake thing to get people to inbox or something for marketing or some such thing

It won't be real anyway

EdithStourton · 27/10/2024 10:54

Hb2024 · 27/10/2024 08:17

I have some sinister info on snag if the thread is still active!

<rattles fingernails on table>
We're agog here...

BringMeTea · 27/10/2024 10:50

👀

T4phage · 27/10/2024 10:46

Too late. They must have got to her 😭

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/10/2024 10:20

What kind of info?

Hb2024 · 27/10/2024 08:17

I have some sinister info on snag if the thread is still active!

SapphireSeptember · 25/02/2024 07:35

Late to the party as usual, but I've just looked at both the Facebook and Instagram posts. They've restricted comments on Facebook and seem to have stopped people from commenting on Instagram. Bit suspicious, that. Assuming they got some backlash from people who don't think this is a lovely idea.

I dabbled in BDSM a bit when I was younger. There are plenty of people within that group who correctly think that strangulation is dangerous. There's no 'safe' way of doing it, and now there's plenty of medical evidence to back that up with regards to long term health implications. Unfortunately for me I was pressured into it by someone I was seeing, he took it too far and I nearly passed out. That was scary enough. I don't like it (BDSM) anymore, my experience with my ex-FWB ruined it, and my current boyfriend isn't into it either.

Why is kink shaming seen as bad anyway? We're now at the stage where people think it's okay to dress up as dogs and go round IKEA on a Saturday morning, where before that would have been confined to people's homes, clubs and private parties. Involving non consenting parties in your kink/fetish goes against the whole ethos of the BDSM community, or it should do.

And of course being against non fatal strangulation means you're a 'conformist'. I'm 35 years old and dress like a teenage Goth from the 2000s or an extra from Harry Potter. Although I wouldn't buy Snag tights anyway because I hate tights in general and wear stripy socks all the time.

Carpooler · 24/01/2024 20:08

‘Shambles’ haha. Alternatively, grown women more concerned about the safety of women and girls than pornified man pleasing on a hosiery company’s FB page. Sign me up for the shambles then please.

LunaNorth · 24/01/2024 19:19

Meanwhile, Mumsnet gives not a fuck about a bloke in a skirt.

Most of us grew up in the 80s ffs.

purpleme12 · 24/01/2024 19:04

Their response isn't covering themselves in glory

NotMyTights · 24/01/2024 18:49

@RobinEllacotStrike

I looked prompted by your post.
Hmm you are right but they haven't dropped it have they.
The most recent post is a pretty regular looking bloke in black skirt and tights- not in any way sexualised or dressed for fetish. He could probably work a more structured fitted skirt than Snags noughties throwback one. He looks fine, and it's not particularly controversial.
It wouldn't really sell me tights but it's not offensive.

And yet they are back harping on about 'shaming people into conformity is bullying' and making swipes at Mumsnet.

They really do have no perspective into the gravity of this issue.

Who are really the nasty bullies here...

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RobinEllacotStrike · 24/01/2024 18:00

Looks like Snag have switched off comments & deleted existing comments on their Insta post.

Guess that was going really well for them then 😂😂

Carpooler · 23/01/2024 21:07

asterel · 23/01/2024 17:46

Kink shaming! How very teenage of them.

Maybe we should instead call it what it is: what used to be called “being complicit in your own oppression”. It’s pretty hard to think of anything more misogynist than selling cheap-looking badges with “cum slut” on, and trying to pretend that’s somehow empowering.

No, it’s just promoting women getting used to being called misogynist slurs - and normalising that to the point where you can claim that women enjoy the eroticisation of their own objectification.

These people have watched so much porn they’ve addled their brains and lost any self-respect.

Yep. Wearing / defending a badge asking to be violently assaulted and then getting upset by hurty words women who suggest that’s not a positive example.

LittleMouse10 · 23/01/2024 17:57

MrsBhave · 23/01/2024 12:25

Not all registered users can send an invite which is why it's difficult.

Thank you so much for that information. That makes sense as to why it's so hard. I follow a couple YouTubers pages on there and I am always itching to reply and comment.

asterel · 23/01/2024 17:46

Kink shaming! How very teenage of them.

Maybe we should instead call it what it is: what used to be called “being complicit in your own oppression”. It’s pretty hard to think of anything more misogynist than selling cheap-looking badges with “cum slut” on, and trying to pretend that’s somehow empowering.

No, it’s just promoting women getting used to being called misogynist slurs - and normalising that to the point where you can claim that women enjoy the eroticisation of their own objectification.

These people have watched so much porn they’ve addled their brains and lost any self-respect.

peakygold · 23/01/2024 16:16

I tried Snag tights last winter but they were so baggy I used them to stuff a draught excluder 😂