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Lush Edinburgh say they wouldn't serve anyone in "woman" T-shirt

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Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 03/08/2020 19:55

Apparently some stickers found their way onto the Lush Edinburgh storefront causing horror and consternation on Princes St this morning. They are too awful to be shared, obviously, but clearly they carried some message of hateful bigotry - or biological fact as it used to be known.

Anyway, staff on the thread are letting it be known that anyone wearing a T-shirt carrying the dictionary definition of a woman would not be served - haven't seen a comment on what would happen if it said 'I ❤️ JKR'. Not sure how legal that is.

www.facebook.com/116815671689234/posts/3431297510241017/

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gardenbird48 · 17/11/2020 12:17

ditto with the Beeb - woke central and 'oh look, we like to pay the men loads more than the women'.

Similar to the correlation between police forces' respective paucity of rape convictions and their Stonewall champion status, we should have a Woke-ometer of companies and check their sex pay gap.

SophocIestheFox · 17/11/2020 11:16

Huh. I’ve got my surprised face on at that revelation. Wokewashing is a lot cheaper than fair pay.

Jkrowling92 · 17/11/2020 11:16

I don’t buy their crap anyway. Just because something uses ‘natural’ ingredients doesn’t mean it’s good for your skin.

NonnyMouse1337 · 17/11/2020 11:07

Wow.... I'm shocked!

fatblackcatspaw · 17/11/2020 11:00

colour me n ot surprised...

PurpleHoodie · 17/11/2020 10:56

Well, blimey.

GCAcademic · 17/11/2020 10:52

[quote Xanthangum]Resurrecting an old thread, so apologies, but I think this is relevant:

The cosmetics company Lush has admitted to underpaying its Australian workers more than $4m over nearly a decade.

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/17/cosmetics-company-lush-admits-to-underpaying-australian-workers-by-44m[/quote]
No surprise there. All these companies rushing to wokewash themselves are doing it for a reason. And it’s not because they’re ethical.

Xanthangum · 17/11/2020 10:49

Resurrecting an old thread, so apologies, but I think this is relevant:

The cosmetics company Lush has admitted to underpaying its Australian workers more than $4m over nearly a decade.

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/17/cosmetics-company-lush-admits-to-underpaying-australian-workers-by-44m

Orrace · 28/08/2020 21:01

It used to be "I am Woman hear me roar" Now it's "I am woman, I really am, no, but I really, really, really am...."
Lush: "cissy"

NonnyMouse1337 · 12/08/2020 10:05

Thanks for posting that, highame. It's a good article. I'll copy it into the Hate Crime Bill thread as well.

highame · 12/08/2020 09:18

www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-snp-s-hate-crime-bill-is-turning-the-law-into-a-culture-war

This is a good article on the hate crime bill. hope the link works

If not, sorry. Didn't want to start a new post so thought this might do

Dreeple · 06/08/2020 22:15

Thisismytimetoshine: Read the fucking room, Dreeple

There’s one in every room.

Thisismytimetoshine · 06/08/2020 21:54

Read the fucking room, Dreeple

fatblackcatspaw · 06/08/2020 21:52

sorry this pic

Lush Edinburgh say they wouldn't serve anyone in "woman" T-shirt
fatblackcatspaw · 06/08/2020 21:51

this image was posted on the now deleted post on the Edinburgh Lush shop facebook page as an image of the awful transphobic sticker. Is the person who posted it on Mumsnet? if so can you missage me? thanks

Criticallythinking · 06/08/2020 13:28

Goes to Lush and wants to boycott I mean

Criticallythinking · 06/08/2020 13:27

If anyone goes there because their young kids love it (mine does) I found bathsprudels which my son loves. They are hand made in SA. You get a little ticket inside from the women who make them (it’s always been women so far when we have bought them)
www.tickety-boo.co.uk/acatalog/6-Pack-Sprudel-Bath-Bombs-7391.html

Dreeple · 06/08/2020 13:27

SpiralHecate :I'm guessing the only time Lush is full of male customers is once a year when they encourage staff to work naked?

What day is that?

Asking for a friend.

EyesOpening · 06/08/2020 12:38

@womanaf

I’m imagining going to lush, picking up 83 sparkly thrush balls, letting them run it all through the till before producing my I❤️JKR tote to carry it away in and watching cashier have an attack of the vapours.

Ideally I’d be able to shoulder in some kind of Real Life variation on the Pretty Woman gif that’s all over Twitter too. ‘You work on commission. Big mistake.’

I LOVE this! I had one of those Women totes arrive the other day!

Wish I'd known about the packaging/naked apart from apron and kissing things, that's awful, I would have blown a fuse at them!

fatblackcatspaw · 06/08/2020 12:00

its so rubbish I've just shared it to my facebook page... with the picture of teh actual sticker and a link to a blog about how appaulingly the staff at the shop were treated by and ex staff member...

Deliriumoftheendless · 06/08/2020 11:30

@Roseburn

I took a deep breath ( to try and avoid the fumes) and entered Lush last Christmas looking for bathbombs for presents, trying to find ones without glitter, but was struggling . ( who wants to get out of the bath looking like a caked Christmas Card?) I asked the sales assistant to point me in the direction of the non-glitter ones and she was bewildered - 'oh but glitter is very popular.'

I'll bet.

This reminds me of when I saw Ross Noble live, he said his wife used glittery bath bombs then fell asleep on the bed afterwards and she looked like “someone had stabbed a pixie”. 😄
BaronEssoStation · 06/08/2020 11:27

Did it say how much they donate to charity?

Is it the profit?

fatblackcatspaw · 06/08/2020 11:21

at least the first comment comes up with a sensible response

CasuallyMasculine · 06/08/2020 08:37

@CuriousaboutSamphire

Did you see the sidebar article - bookshop donates to trans charity everytine it seels a JKR book?

I despair!

Surely the truly moral action for them would be to refuse to stock any of her books?

Or would they worry about going out of business if they did that?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 06/08/2020 08:12

Did you see the sidebar article - bookshop donates to trans charity everytine it seels a JKR book?

I despair!

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