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The Body Shop has fallen

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Cismyfatarse1 · 10/06/2020 19:05

Just seen this on Twitter.

For those who like their Ginger Shampoo, can I suggest MooGoo.

Also, Aveeno is a good replacement for their Shea butter.

Other thoughts welcome. Feel free to suggest other ideas.

The Body Shop has fallen
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ChurchOfWokeApostate · 16/06/2020 14:07

That’s a beautiful ratio

YourVagesty · 16/06/2020 14:01

I was just looking at the comments underneath one of their new postings. twitter.com/TheBodyShop/status/1272527550959489027

Take a look, it makes for great reading.

It's not going away Body Shop!

macaroniandpizza · 16/06/2020 00:14

Im going to rebuy the harry potter series for my son for his upcoming birthday and start to read them with him

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Cismyfatarse1 · 15/06/2020 22:59

Am in Scotland so shops are still shut but I would be interested to know if employees in individual shops know about this.

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Pluckedpencil · 15/06/2020 22:56

I'm going to buy a JK Rowling book (which was on my list anyway) and never ever step foot in a body shop again (which was not high on my list of things to do anyway). Maybe the Body Shop are so close to being the next high street dodo that they just rant random things that pop into their heads without really thinking through that just possibly quite a lot of women will take umbrage at being described as "menstruaters". It's like being called "baby incubator" or "milk machine". Just fucking horrible and, again, we already have a word for a sex, it's woman thanks.

Lordamighty · 15/06/2020 22:49

@SwordBilledHummingbird thanks for that, I will save the details for when I run out of BS stuff.

PamDenick · 15/06/2020 22:03

Yes. I'm finding it very strange that I agree with the Tories on this. I'm usually such a leftie!
I'm gonna take my leftie pennies elsewhere.

Porridgeoat · 15/06/2020 21:36

And it seems the conservatives have more common sense and safeguarding awareness then the body shop, Lib Dem’s, greens and labour. How strange is that!

TheSmelliestHouse · 15/06/2020 21:22

How very rude

SerenityNowwwww · 15/06/2020 21:22

Now is the season for virtue signalling business to tell us how pride is the season for re-education. How stonewall riot was started by a trans woman (or Latina, or woman as I have seen - and they weren’t talking about Storme). Same companies who ignored international woman’s day.

YourVagesty · 15/06/2020 21:18

I wonder if they're starting to panic yet?!

I hope so.

What i'd love to see is them sitting there all smug and woke as the company collapses because their menstruators have taken their money elsewhere.

They'll probably be fine though. I'm sure all the millions of male menstruators will do enough shopping with them to keep them going.

SwordBilledHummingbird · 15/06/2020 20:32

@Lordamighty

The only product I use from the BS is a facial SPF50 sun cream called Skin Defence, if anyone can recommend an alternative I would be much obliged. I hardly think they will miss my business but every little helps as they say in marketing advertising.
@Lordamighty I'm a bit late to this but in case no-one else has mentioned it, I use Soap & Glory Sunshielf Superfluid SPF50*. It's brilliant, very light and non-greasy. Looks like it's currently on offer too:

www.boots.com/soap-and-glory-make-yourself-youthful-sunshield-superfluid-spf50-10167582

*Please no-one tell me Soap & Glory are part of the woke front.

SerenityNowwwww · 15/06/2020 20:03

No their ears are stuffed with woke cookies. Any shareholders or journalists knocking around?

MrsKingfisher · 15/06/2020 19:22

I wonder if they're starting to panic yet?!

justasking111 · 15/06/2020 19:14

Checked out glass door to see how they were as an employer a mixed bag.

SerenityNowwwww · 15/06/2020 18:48

Oh I did demand they stopped referring to beard stuff as for men because it’s not only men who have facial hair (which is actually truer than men having periods).

YinMnBlue · 15/06/2020 18:42

I am doubly enraged by Body Shop now, and my round robin pile of disingenuous shit hasn’t even arrived yet.

A proper apology could have had me saying “OK, fair do’s, the millennial on the Twitter account has a learning curve to scale”.

But they did not ‘reach out’ to JKR, they had a go at her.
They did not ‘get the tone wrong’, they attacked her.
They have not apologised to her.
They have not referred to their stupid hypocritical double think over ‘Men’s Shaving’
The people who wrote did not ‘reach out’, they complained.

They are irritatingly bad at comms, I cannot read ‘reach out’ twice in one email without literally (sic) having the heeby jeebies.

Body Shop: we are done.

CaraDune · 15/06/2020 18:39

That trustpilot page is a joy to behold.

And you know what - you don't have to get very far down the page till you get to the 1 star reviews for general crapness before they pulled their misogynistic shit fest moment. I think they were going down the pan anyway.

Meanwhile, JKR is still in Amazon's bestseller list Grin

Sexnotgender · 15/06/2020 18:33

uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.thebodyshop.co.uk

Some excellent reviews.

HeIsAVeryBadBoy · 15/06/2020 18:30

My product reviews calling out their misogyny have not appeared on their website. It's been about 48 hours since I posted them.

IHateCoronavirus · 15/06/2020 18:25

StandWithYouGrin

StandWithYou · 15/06/2020 18:15

@IHateCoronavirus

I replied asking if they expected hairy faced ‘women’ and non-binary people to feel satisfied remove my facail hair with their ‘men’s’ shaving range. Hmm
I asked them why they didn’t use he term ‘beard havers’ instead of men.

It was quite cathartic.

TedsFederationRep · 15/06/2020 17:49
Grin

Keep pushing. Don't give up.

IHateCoronavirus · 15/06/2020 17:49

I replied asking if they expected hairy faced ‘women’ and non-binary people to feel satisfied remove my facail hair with their ‘men’s’ shaving range.
Hmm

JemimaShore · 15/06/2020 17:47

Serenity Grin