Paperchase taking leave of their senses

Tell the owner of thefeministstationerycompany.com/ to get cracking on filling this product niche.

I do worry about where I'm going to be able to get my edgy ring binders and quirky bulldog clips now though.

Bums aren't just boring these days, oh no! they're Queer and Modern! FFS.

DH pointed these notebooks out to me a few days ago and we just goggled at them for a while. He normally likes a nice Paperchase notebook or two but he won't be getting any more of them now I used to always buy my diaries from Paperchase, until last year, when they took their normal range of diaries and stuck "empowering" pink quotations all over them - not exactly the kind of thing you can have in front of you at a work meeting. Looks like the kind of stuff that happens when a company is hurtling towards administration to me tbh.

Someone did their own version on twitter - all men in their cacks. Actually a much better job!

I gave them the benefit of the doubt over the weekend as the twitter is only checked during the week. But a whole Monday has gone by and they've ignored the 700+ responses and are clearly hoping this will quietly disappear a la Body Shop etc etc.

I can't imagine any group of outraged people other than women being so utterly ignored.

I originally stopped shopping at my local Paperchase because I seemed to spend more time fending off offers for their store card, etc, etc, than I did choosing & buying what I wanted. But now it looks like I wouldn’t want to give them my money anyway.

Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern all got into power because of their empowering knickers, right?

Oh no, wait...

Putting the sexualised fruit, the bums, the breasts and the vile valentines cards together, I see nothing about female empowerment. Quite the reverse. And something very close to grooming.

There was an interesting legal case in Israel that hinged on what emojis could be reasonably interpreted as legal agreement.

I'm pretty sure an aubergine emoji in certain contexts may get you a deletion.

This was a particular line and it only had those things in various combinations on them.

Moon Friday!!

Flippin' heck. Thankfully for me, I think it was mostly stuff with smiley satsumas that I bought. But I shouldn't be having to double-check that I didn't buy a child a water bottle for school with emoji slang for genitals on it.

Really not sure about the avocado

Pothole if it was the ones a couple of years back with

Aubergine (cock)
Peach (arse and it really looked like a bum)
Avocado (??? Apparently vulva)

Then yes. The aubergine has been used for ages to mean cock on watsapp etc.

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I’m glad they’re doing badly and closing stores if this is the shit they are peddling. I used to LOVE paper chase, such a treat to go to a city and visit one. Not now

Hang on. I didn't know about this. I had a primary-aged kid who loved their fruit and veg range. He adores pictures of little vegetables with faces. It's his thing, so I bought it for him.

There are people who sexualise that?!

Valentine's cards they took down

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2837849-To-think-Paperchase-have-lost-their-minds-over-cock-and-anal-cards

I do.

I emailed paperchase about the cock/arse/(and I was told avocado is vulva).

Their shops are popular with girls. That's a big market for them.

Fruit was a craze at the time.

Little girls with mums who didn't know buying all manner of stationery with code for cock arse cunt on it, is grim.

They knew who it would appeal to and that they would be naive.

Idea of girls walking down the street and creepy men saying ooh I like your bag etc. Or taking their new stuff out at school and more knowing kids laughing at them.

It's a no from me.

I mean I wasn't crazy angry or anything just a bit. Why? Especially when you know who your shop is popular with.

I remember the tits stuff as well.

And the cards they had to take off the shelves. Again- they know loads of kids shop in there. How hard is it too keep it relatively clean?!

Do people really care about this kind of stuff? I assumed OP was joking.

A stationery company that doesn't know their arse from their grocer's apostrophe?

I don't think I have the right kind of mind for this stuff. A lifetime of being called a bleeding-heart lefty for wanting to improve prison conditions and so on, and I just can't get this.

I know I'm supposed to see that police car and think, "sticking it to The Man, yeah!" but I don't.

The things I do think about include, but are not limited to:
● was the car occupied?
● what will the environmental cost be of replacing that car?
● what impact could the air pollution from the fire have had on local residents' health?
● were any animals harmed by that fire?

Well this is nice, also from ash + chess:

ashandchess.com/collections/cards/products/wishing-you-warmth

Do paperchase have that one?

The fact that the bums are all white says it all. There’s only one kind of diversity that matters. And only one thing women are for. Ugh.

On Ereshkigalangclegs advice I popped to Paperchase to let them know how I feel.