To think we should all boycott John Lewis until they respect their female employees

To be honest, I have been boycotting JL already and closed my account with them. There is nothing that I cannot buy elsewhere and their customer service is not what it was. I believe that they are deliberately gaslighting women, there is some form of misogyny running rampant today that I cannot understand. Yet thousands of years ago, archaic and primitive religions worshipped.... goddesses! Can we go back to the Stone Age, please?

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To be fair the op actually said locker room. That to me is different to a changing room and not something I would expect to be single sex . At my work the lockers are just in communal places on the open plan floor. It maybe I have misunderstood what a locker room is

I am a huge John Lewis fan - but I will also be boycotting them and just sent them this - I used the contact page and clicked the product button as could not see a better option.
www.johnlewis.com/customer-services/contact-us

”I am a huge advocate of choice - live and let live - as long as no one is hurting each other.

I feel very strongly that not proving safe spaces to biological women is hurting them. I am a huge John Lewis fan and have been for decades - but I will not be shopping in your store or online until you ensure your biological women staff have guaranteed safe spaces.”

Do you genuinely think that was my question?

You don’t know what a changing room is for?

Already boycotting them for dreadful customer service so can't help. It's annoying as many of the companies I would boycott for their attitudes to women, I'm already boycotting for something else.

Which is why they need to get their act together, and respect and consider female staff and customers.

No

John Lewis has great breastfeeding facilities (better than most other shops) so I see them as a supporter of women. I will not be boycotting.

No I won't be blocking John Lewis. Its up to the employers amd staff to sort this out, What a fuss about nothing. It's toilets with presumably private cubicles. I bought quite a lot from JL in the past but not so much now. I tend to go on a spree once in a few years.

I agree.

You do you, but I will not be boycotting them.
Up to the staff to take it up with their union if they don’t like it.

I didn't know we get comments deleted for gender critical thoughts these days... it's a pity that MN is censoring concerned women.

I've never been provided with a changing room in any of my retail jobs in the first place, let alone a single sex one. What's it for?

Well, JL is an employee owned trust isn’t it and so their employees should be involved in key issues.

That isn't a question for us is it - only you decide what you care about. What an odd comment.

The Resigner raises interesting points regarding the situation. It does seem like a situation which is designed to appease ONE employee.
Really, a better boycott would have been for her to decide to wear a man costume to work every day. Saying she is a man, maybe with clown makeup because that’s her ID. Use mens changing room and toilet, demand a tampon machine, etc etc. Just act like a person who needs special accommodations and see if she is accommodated.

There's an AGP in our local John Lewis (he works in the women's department and is very vocal about it) and I stopped using them once I realised that the James Esses account of their ideological capture wasn't just in one store, or one part of the company:

x.com/jamesesses/status/1758061754804748489?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

AGP for those unfamiliar:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4726257-nick-timothy-in-the-telegraph-on-the-grr?page=1

This letter does not surprise me. Women deserve much better than this. We certainly don't deserve to be treated with contempt by our employers or as customers.

I will continue to shop at JL...those female employees are strong and capable and don't need my support to fight for themselves. I have my own drum to bang.

What is wrong with you?

So, so true. Sadly.

That was then and this is now. Your DF wouldn't have been working with men with fetishes. Well he may have, but they wouldn't have taken them to work. I am sure he would be horrified to think of men intruding in to women's spaces and exposing themselves.

I’d boycott them if they hadn’t already shut our local store.