Reply from the Body Shop re JKR... just so dreadful...

Sadly, having not bought from body shop since I joined the Nestle boycott, i can't say they're losing my business. But oh my goodness if they haven't just sunk even lower than I already thought they were!!

How about a campaign for sanpro vending machines in the men’s - there are still men’s loos somewhere aren’t there?
Would make sense to get a business with a campaigning history to get behind this one

I was reminded of these advert

People have periods – women, men and non-binary people.

I guarantee they wouldn't dare say this to their shareholders.

And this one illustrates the intended end result. Which has already happened in some countries.

In fact, we don't need them at all! They only existed to sell us a dream of womanhood. And now women no longer exist, so does their entire purpose

This.

For anyone who’s wondering why this incorrect use of language matters so much this thread is a good introduction.

If you don’t have time to read the whole thing now, at least flip the thread and read the last comment.

We have money we can spend elsewhere.

Not from a company that don’t like women

BodyShop are just shite.

They don’t like women

They made that clear.

Don’t buy stuff from them

*They're not saying men menstruat8

The reason women are absolutely furious is because the act of removing the word woman is an like an act of colonisation

The natives are re-named or totally omitted; their language is eroded; another language is imposed; they are de-centred and totally white-washed in their own territory - the one that they own; the colonising force then centres the needs of the minority population ahead of them, and thus erases their experience, as well as their visibility.

Yes that's the guy I emailed . Dear old David

We do need to keep the fight up and raise awareness - however we can, in what ever way is safe for your and your mental/physical wellbeing.

For me it has been the small things - meeting up with other women online and talking about shared experiences. A book club is underway. Emailing people, talking to friends etc for the moment has helped while I still consider myself in lockdown.

[quote PurpleGhost]@SunshineCake You're not missing anything, it just all seems so bonkers that you can't actually believe what you're reading [/quote]
Not just me then .

But seriously, I must be missing something.

Just told dh that the body shop are saying men have periods, men born as a woman? I asked that surely you need womb to bleed and they aren't having wombs inplanted when the penis is turned into a vagina. Dh said not yet .

I offended (I think) a friend cause she thought jk Rowling deserved it. I didn't. But she doesn't think trans women shouldn't be able to compete in female sports because they have the biological advantage. Make it stop!!!

I'm sure they're not saying that actual men menstruate. Just that people who menstruate who don't identify as women have their support

The point is that women are being de-centred from the very female process & experience of menstruation.

You know I am getting pretty fucking sick of this. I have nothing but support for people who have a gf set identity crisis and need to change. It's a real biological thing.
But fuck the fuck off with your 'we are women cause we say we are'.
Are we just never safe? Anywhere?

I think that this is very likely the Body Shop's David Boynton

"social democrat, supporter of conscious capitalism... business can and should be a force for good in the world."

twitter.com/davidpboynton?lang=en

The word "conscious" in relation to anything corporate is very bad news in my experience. The "conscious capitalism" "tribe" is one I am familiar with. Lots of people who are earning $$$$$, often linked to MLMs and dubious charities while virtue signalling there's no tomorrow. They often call themselves "humanitarians" and "global citizens".

Anita Roddick was very into it while also being very into some really dodgy guru types. She was at one point a follower of the controversial businessman and alleged cult leader Andrew Cohen.

Bunch of cunts. Stupid fucking virtue signalling. Ugh.

Go in and leave your sanitary wear on their floor.

Then the would pay attention to who the fuck mentruates

Mulling my reply over now. Woke dickheads.

Fuck them, don't shop there. There are plenty of alternatives.

Any other of their products which used to be good which are now crap

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Am including menstruators in this discussion. Just in case 😉😉😉😉

And just saying on their products don’t know what they have done to their hemp lotion. Used to be great.

Now it’s total crap. Doesn’t work

The first time I went to visit my son, in England, I forgot my makeup, so I went into the body shop with my daughter, because I was going out for a special occasion. A lovely young woman gave me a total makeover, with eyeshadows, moisturiser, etc. I got her to put the eye shadows in the nice mirror cases that you do and asked her to collect up a new packet of every single item that she used on me and I bought the lot. I also bought stuff for my daughter. I used to carry the list on my phone, so I could top it up, every time I needed it and was near one of your stores. I was so pleased to have all that lovely, cruelty free makeup.

Well now, you can go fuck yourselves. I had a hysterectomy because of endometriosis and my daughter, at the age of 25 is going the same way. You can fuck off with your callous disregard of females and your twisting of the English language, in order to appease a group of people who probably don’t set foot in your shop. Did you actually think it through, before you posted that crap? Female bodied people who identify as trans are not your demographic, as they’re unlikely to wear makeup! Do you reckon the sums will add up, when you gain all those woke struggling students, young people on the first rung of the wage ladder and the XY people you gain.

Well done for chasing off the women who stayed loyal after Anita Roddick sold it. I’m so looking forward to you disappearing completely from the high street.

Bye Bye Body Shop