Boycott list

Just updating this as we have the M&S thread, I went back over this thread to try to track all the companies, retailers and charities that have thrown women and/or children under the bus in one way or another,I barely keeping up TBH.

I'm currently boycotting:

M&S
John Lewis
Topshop, New Look, Dorothy Perkins, H&M (but I don't really shop there)
Cheeky Wipes (and Always but I use reusable/washable)
Flora
Birds eye
Ocado
Co op
Kellogg's - for the rainbow cereal
Lush - for donating to mermaids
NSPCC
Amnesty
Children in Need - for donating to mermaids
Sprite and Coca Cola - for their tv ads

It would be very difficult to boycott all those brands. I think it's much more effective to target the most egregious ones - back in the anti-apartheid days we used to boycott Barclays and Outspan oranges, but you can't effectively boycott a couple of dozen brands. I'd certainly agree with boycotting Upfield because it might be helpful for them to understand the value of the Mumsnet pound.

I have never ventured into Primark Birmingham because it believes girls should share intimate spaces with adult males.
Yuk, just wrong.

Matalan are turning their changing rooms into a mixed sex changing 'village'.

OP says...
'Next have got rid on their female toilets.
Have I got these right? Any others to add?"

I was in a Next a couple of weeks ago. In that one they have a women's toilet with three cubicles and have got rid of the men's. The men now share the single disabled toilet.

Wagamama - for transitioning to mixed sex toilets.

Ocado, (Over the billboards organised by Posy) gutted to have boycotted them, but I’ve stuck to it.

Thought it was time to bump this and add Flora and all other products produced by Upfield.
upfield.com/brands/

I boycotted marks ages ago, even their food, which is irritating.

I don’t like the separation between transwomen and predators. There are trans predators. There are trans predators right now in women’s prisons. Being trans doesn’t mean you are automatically a decent person. Male people do almost all the sexual assault, voyeurism, paedophilia, and all the rapes. Being male is the issue.
I’m going to talk to Marks and Spencer’s as I spend a reasonable amount there. They really can’t afford to lose women as customers.

Sadly, ill no longer be donating to Amnesty or the NSPCC

As far as I'm aware lots of large companies use stonewall to do there equal ops / inclusion surveys. Im pressing my energy provider to confirm there position. Most have Twitter accounts so a few more voices would not hurt. Large business are big fence sitters an are well aware of women's spending power.

Charlie, yes. I had wondered whether a few careful letters pointing out the recent court decision, Mermaid's position on surgical or hormonal intervention for young children etc, might give the FCA, Herbert Smith Freehills etc pause for thought.

Perhaps Transgender Trend, could be offered as a safer alternative.

I don't know how you can boycott the FCA....

My understanding is that diversity training there puts quite a lot of emphasis on transgender issues. Pity as it may cause the GC, who from various surveys can be expected to be a clear majority, to switch off from the overall diversity training process.

Primark in both Hereford and Wrocester have separated fitting rooms for men and women.

I know people who work there. It's actually rather good about non sexism and diversity and treats the issues with intelligence. This will have been a decision out of ignorance and grooming, not misogyny, I feel sure. I wonder if internal representations would make a difference.

Super, ever watched a man head towards the ladies in a crowded pub..
.hear the roar " no mate!" From all corners?

That society enabled protection gets lost with self id

Further, grc today means medical diagnosis which makes it quite hard for men to get a grc

Sex segregation exists for a reason. If people want to debate if that Is still valid , I suggest you start a new thread.

Urban outfitters made me laugh ( accompanying someone) I think their sign said that their changing rooms were unisex , but they spend a lot of words waffling about genedr discrimination and legality

Very handy thread - now I know exactly where to support. ;)

Co op.
FCA is interesting.

Nah, any trip to Top Shop with a teenage daughter is an ordeal. The Oxford Circus one, with a sulky French exchange called Fanny, who refused to try speak English, goes down as one of the all-time lows of parenting.

"Topshop ordeal"? Get a grip.

Ah, answered my own question:

"We applied for funding to support our Plans for the next 3 years and received
significant funding grants as follows
Children in Need —April 2016, £128k over 3 years
Leathersellers —May 2016 £640k over 4 years
Awards far All —July 2016. £10k for one year
Department af Education - October 2016, £35k over 2.5 years
We have developed relationships with a number of companies, and are the Financial Conduct Authority's and Herbert Smith Freehills' Spansored Charity of the year. We are working in partnership with the LGBT networks for Lloyds Bank and Barclays Bank, and are discussing ongoing partnership working with a number of ether organisations for 2017. These organisations have assisted us
financially and with professional development support, venue use and
volunteer recruitment."

At minimium, given the Kids Company fiasco, I assume that Penny Mordaunt might like to know how much public money is going into Mermaids.

Isn't "Oh, well I'll leave my front door unlocked because burglars" the kind of thing rape apologists say when women dress in ways they deem to be attractive to rapists?

Anyway, as you were.

Back to thread.

I woud be interested in knowing who funds/sponsors Mermaids. I have already stopped buying Lush. If Barclays really do sponsor them I will close my account.