To let you know that Ocado think women’s rights are “hateful political views”?

@Tutorpuzzle I agree, this passed me by for many years because I didn't get the significance of it all until I thought one day to try and understand all the Trans post's.
I was blown away to be honest and the more I looked into it the more aghast I became.
One testament in particular struck me that of a woman writing to parliament about the impact her trans dad had on her life and how he fetishised it and tried to cross boundaries with her. She then went into highlight the depths of capture, even into womens refuge.

Add me to the list of account cancellers. And what was very satisfying is that you are able to write a message when going through the deletion process (I was civil!).

I am undoubtedly a lurker on MN on this subject, but want to express my appreciation to MN and all the brilliant posters who have taught me so much. However much the significance of yesterday’s ruling is being downplayed in much of the media, it seems rather important to me.

This is not new from Ocado. Here's when they first weighed in against women.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3377314-ocado-siding-with-misogynists-and-agreeing-that-the-word-woman-and-its-dictionary-definition-is-hate-speech

I discovered during lockdown they don't deliver to my postcode. Too rough innit.
Anyway, they can fottfsofoafosm 😡

@WooleyMunky I just had a look. Its app attracted around 42.6 million downloads worldwide in the first 15 weeks of 2025, apparently.
My point is that people still flock there. Also, if it makes you feel as if you're at least doing something, go ahead. As people say, something is better than nothing.

This is so annoying because I bloody love my ocado deliveries.
I’m housebound and need to buy pretty much everything and anything online.
Between boycotting companies which are anti women, trying to make sure my choices are ethical to animals / workers / the environment and doing my best to avoid any products from trump’s america I may soon starve in an empty house!
I think I might email ocado and tell them that I hold “hateful political views” and ask if they want to cancel my smart pass and lose my business.

What?? I just took delivery of a £185 order from Ocado about an hour ago. I had no idea they’d waded in on the wrong side here.

Beggars belief they don’t give a shit about women’s rights, when I bet the majority of the people ordering from them are female. Fucking fools. Well I’m cancelling my smart pass and I won’t be shopping with them again unless they do a full u-turn, apologise and demonstrate their commitment to women’s safety and rights.

Dammit, I’m going to have to find another supermarket delivery option. Sainsburys are shite in our area, they robbed me of £70 worth of groceries a couple of years ago and I won’t shop with them again. I might have to give Tesco a go.

Blimey that's £800 a month they've lost from us.

@KnewYearKnewMe look at her post it's linked on feminist board.

Brilliant, just signed up, thanks for the pointer.

Thanks @SidewaysOtter- I understand the strength of feeling about this,

i find it hard to boycott a company based on ‘Justine said they backed out because of MN’s hateful views’ without more detail.

as I said, I don’t doubt it, but it’s too flimsy for me and I’d like it if @mnhqcould add more details.

Look at how many people are opposed to slave labour and children being sexually abused, and then look at Shein sales figures...

I would like more detailed information about this. Not because I doubt it, but i would like clarity, as if I am to boycott something, I need more details. If anyone can link to statements by Ocado, I would appreciate it and act accordingly,

I used to do a weekly shop with them (for years) but stopped several years ago when they said the dictionary definition of ‘woman’
as ‘adult human female’ was ‘hateful’. There was a big furore about it on the feminism board. They’ve never had a penny from
me since.

I’m not shocked to hear they are doubling down still but, really, what kind of bonehead goes so out of their way to alienate their main customer base?

They can get to fuck and stay there.

Well thankyou making me aware of this. I guess I'm not a customer that they would want.

Wow. I never knew about this. I’m really disappointed.

How can a company be so captured by ideology they fail to realise this whole issue isn’t some online inflammatory Twitter battle. It has impacts on hard won rights. Women have special categories for good reasons.

By broadening ‘women’ to include males, you potentially erase all of that and put women in harms way.

I’m guessing Ocados leadership team are in a bubble who base their opinions on social media opinion but social media m real life.

Have just mentioned this to our next door neighbour as we were getting our bins back in. She's just marched back inside to cancel her Ocado order forthwith.

I'm just about to message our DDs to let them know!

Get banging those jungle drums ladies!

They can get to fuck. Fuck off Ocado, you pandering, misogynistic twats

I care and in absolutely gutted I've seen shopping without them all this time I don't understand how I missed it.

I hope this gains some traction on twitter. I can't believe it!!

Ok, that’s my account cancelled then. Fuckwits.

Educating their customer base about LGBTQ blah blah issues???? WTF?

Who are these fuckers?

Stick to delivering groceries. But never to my house.

Idiots.

People who give them money every week do care though. You don’t use them so you may not care.

They aren’t a glorified delivery boy either. They are a company whose gross profits are £796.4 million.

Thank you for highlighting this op, I had no idea. I've just cancelled a very big order and won't be ordering again. Bastards.
I'll spread the word to my friends and family.

In response to a pp, I also never shop at Primark, Shein, or Temu. We all need to do our bit where we can.