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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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Wanderpeg · 17/01/2024 19:55

Glad I saw this thread, was soon going to order some more tights from them. Probably have spent a few hundred a year on snag, small drop in the ocean to them but having known a woman whose husband attempted to strangle her then claimed it was ‘rough sex gone wrong’ I won’t be giving them a penny more.

Will order from the place recommended instead, they look quite good.

NannyGythaOgg · 17/01/2024 19:53

FakeHoisinDuck · 17/01/2024 18:28

Ah thanks for that. I'm too big for bravissimo 😳.

And yes reading the tattle thread on the NSFW cult it's clear drawing their attention to this thread will make no difference. They fully know what they're doing 😔.

Bra Stop is the place to go.
Always some on sale - up to K cup - for £20 or less. Good measuring guide too

Ghostofborleyrectory · 17/01/2024 19:50

I was given a voucher for Snag tights- could not return when tried on so bought a selction of the weird sizes in the hope one size would work. They all rolled down, they all snagged and my nicely trimmed big toe nail poked through within one wear.

Skeletonythings · 17/01/2024 19:44

Yanbu I used to buy from them as I'm tall and fat, I won't be now. I do love Sainsbury's for tights but wish they did a better range of colours. Their quality and fit are fantastic.

pinksheepbeep · 17/01/2024 19:40

How utterly vile. I was thinking of branching out from my dull black m&s tights- will try better tights rather than snag!

BCBird · 17/01/2024 19:38

I won't buy from them again either

Goldenpashmina · 17/01/2024 19:35

Goodness me there must be more worthy causes for you to direct your indignation towards? It was something you literally directed yourself towards that was clearly labelled NSFW!

If you don't like the product, don't buy it. You are kink shaming. Consenting adults can buy this stuff if they like.

I buy from snag and will continue to do so. I've no interest in bdsm and their NSFW stuff but I definitely don't begrudge others purchasing it and snag selling it.

ZenNudist · 17/01/2024 19:33

Given what I've read on MN there's no way I'd buy from them. I can't unsee the pic of a man in some lurid colour tights. Really bizarre. I can't imagine the market for men wearing tights is as lucrative or large as female wearing tights!

It's a shame because I don't mind a bit of honest marketing and Ive got money to spend on decent quality clothing or basics. A picture of a woman with a tummy wearing the tights would usually make me oh these tights are for me". Shrugs.

The cumslutpatch (not a term ive ever heard before) is bizarre also but maybe a sign the company looking to carve out a minority niche in sex stuff rather than grow into a bigger more profitable company with wide ranging appeal.

Wonder what their financial backers think...

Puffalicious · 17/01/2024 19:31

Sitting here in my Snags - I'm so dull I only buy black high denier for work😆- & I've been on the verge of abandoning them before due to their dodgy marketing, but this takes the biscuit. 'Better' tights it is. Fucking deplorable, Snag.

TheOccupier · 17/01/2024 19:21

Disgusting and YANBU, but I stopped buying from them years ago when it became clear they were captured by gender ideology (tights modelled by men) so this doesn't surprise me. It's all part of the same pervy, male-serving movement.

fedupandstuck · 17/01/2024 19:11

ObliviousCoalmine · 17/01/2024 19:09

You went onto a NSFW site and are complaining that the content is adult? Meh.

No, the OPs comment wasn't about the adult nature, it was about the specific misogynist and violent phrases used on specific items.

ObliviousCoalmine · 17/01/2024 19:09

You went onto a NSFW site and are complaining that the content is adult? Meh.

Bibbidybobbidyroo · 17/01/2024 19:05

PurpleBugz · 17/01/2024 19:02

Thanks for this thread. I needed the alternatives recommended. I've been uncomfortable with the adverts for snag for a while very sexual and the odd man dressed as a woman thrown in which is enough to stop me buying. but seeing the info here I'm regretting ever giving them my money never buying from them again. Choking is not funny.

What does dressing like a woman mean?

Sususudio · 17/01/2024 19:04

FakeHoisinDuck · 17/01/2024 18:38

It really is a slippery slope. Or connected in some way

Cool with men in women's spaces
Cool with mens violence towards women.
Cool with choking...

There's a link.

Agree.

mumyes · 17/01/2024 19:03

Sharontheodopolodous · 17/01/2024 18:51

Trigger warning!

A few years ago,I had a boyfriend who's 'thing' it was to choke the hell out of me

I could have died-im not joking-im 5'7 and was a size 14,he was 17 stone and 6'6 so a lot bigger and stronger than me

He gaslight the fuck out of me-telling me 'you enjoyed it,dont fucking lie' and the police didn't give a fuck-they treated me like the mad ex girlfriend who changed her mind once we broken up

I used to buy snag tights-im an odd shape and they where amazing

Seeing this,I've turned to better tights (please don't down this path,better,your tights and chub rub shorts are amazing)

Snag can fuck off,women are not 'cum sluts' nor is choking someone 'funny' 'badge worthy' or there to be 'spanked' (unless they want to be spanked)

I just want a pair of tights that don't ladder,don't fall down and in the colour I want to wear with my outfit

I don't want to see men dressed up with their bulge on display,woman being shown as sex objects or shitty badges

It's a sick world we live in that I've written about being choked in the same box as where I buy my fucking tights

So sorry this happened to you. All of it.

Your last comment is such a terrible indictment re snag.

PurpleBugz · 17/01/2024 19:02

Thanks for this thread. I needed the alternatives recommended. I've been uncomfortable with the adverts for snag for a while very sexual and the odd man dressed as a woman thrown in which is enough to stop me buying. but seeing the info here I'm regretting ever giving them my money never buying from them again. Choking is not funny.

Sharontheodopolodous · 17/01/2024 18:51

Trigger warning!

A few years ago,I had a boyfriend who's 'thing' it was to choke the hell out of me

I could have died-im not joking-im 5'7 and was a size 14,he was 17 stone and 6'6 so a lot bigger and stronger than me

He gaslight the fuck out of me-telling me 'you enjoyed it,dont fucking lie' and the police didn't give a fuck-they treated me like the mad ex girlfriend who changed her mind once we broken up

I used to buy snag tights-im an odd shape and they where amazing

Seeing this,I've turned to better tights (please don't down this path,better,your tights and chub rub shorts are amazing)

Snag can fuck off,women are not 'cum sluts' nor is choking someone 'funny' 'badge worthy' or there to be 'spanked' (unless they want to be spanked)

I just want a pair of tights that don't ladder,don't fall down and in the colour I want to wear with my outfit

I don't want to see men dressed up with their bulge on display,woman being shown as sex objects or shitty badges

It's a sick world we live in that I've written about being choked in the same box as where I buy my fucking tights

Bibbidybobbidyroo · 17/01/2024 18:49

forgivingfiggy · 17/01/2024 18:47

Funny how they went from catering to plus size/tall women and quickly branched into sexual fetishes. Really helping the cause there Snag.

99% of their stuff still is.

mumyes · 17/01/2024 18:47

Blooooody hell! I cannot believe Snag is selling patches saying these things.

forgivingfiggy · 17/01/2024 18:47

Funny how they went from catering to plus size/tall women and quickly branched into sexual fetishes. Really helping the cause there Snag.

BoobyDazzler · 17/01/2024 18:45

What on earth has been been posted on this thread that could be construed as transphobic?

As for the patches though, meh. They’re NSFW, you were warned it might be something offensive but clicked the link anyway. I wouldn’t wear the patches but I wouldn’t wear snag tights either as their mainstream advertising strategy is bloody awful and most of the products I’ve seen are hideous.

Bellablahhole · 17/01/2024 18:39

SlightlygrumpyBettyswaitress · 17/01/2024 18:15

Tights for Blokes really should be their strap line.
It's a shame. They have moved from body positive and a decent product (adult dd like you was an enthusiastic customer?) To just courting more and more obscure niche audience.

YNABU. I would NEVER buy from Snag Tights.They are wholly captured by 'Gender Woo' and are misogynistic.

FakeHoisinDuck · 17/01/2024 18:38

It really is a slippery slope. Or connected in some way

Cool with men in women's spaces
Cool with mens violence towards women.
Cool with choking...

There's a link.

forgivingfiggy · 17/01/2024 18:38

Snag have been going down the pan for years. I regret buying the bulk tights from them during the pandemic going-out-of -business hysteria. But at the time they were the only tights I could wear and I couldn't risk them disappearing. I can't believe this is what empowerment looks like to some sections of society.

TragicMuse · 17/01/2024 18:36

I used to love snag. The quality has suffered though.

And I don't want to support a company that appears to think strangulation of women is something on which to profit.

It's not transphobic to say that.

If the men's reviews were about the actually tights that would be nice. How they work under trousers perhaps. What the stretch is like on a taller person. That kind of thing. But no. It's all ladydicks and stunning and brave pouting. Tells me fuck all about the tights and everything about where their priorities lie. And since they don't care about the safety of women they don't get my money. I don't care if that's transphobic tbh. I don't care about men's fucking ladyfeelz.

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