Paperchase taking leave of their senses

im annoyed that some of those products have been removed because of uproar from the public. Some of us are not mortally offended by smutty humour, and not everyone thinks that cartoons of bums is the height of womens objectification.
Thanks for the links to the worlds most boring notebooks and stationary though

ThinkWittyThoughts
Muji have similar to the ones you want to replace & Hema do sometimes

Did they leap onto someone else's craftivism and miss the point entirely.

Jenny Eclair did that Craftivism programme and met Helen Baker who 'knicker bombs' tiny felt knickers to raise awareness of cervical screening.

Have Papercraft bandwagoned the visuals without the bloody message?

Is it just me or this just really weirdly written? Particularly the bit I've bolded? If it's meant to be marketing copywriting it's very odd.

This image has become a symbol of female empowerment & recognised as such in this form, we are proud to be supportive of this. We have also seen similar themes elsewhere. We have received great feedback from customers at the positive message it drives

They did a range a while back with boobs on. I didn’t like those either.

Thanks @30PercentRecycled these are just what I need!

I have noticed a tendency by organisations to hire a person due to their identity rather than skills and then apply no critical thought to the output. The Special One produced it so it must be diverse and inclusive, if I challenge it in the review meeting I'll look like a something-phobe or something-ist.

If only we all showed our bums more. Took photos of ourselves naked. Had evenings hanging out in our Agent Provocateur and Savage Fenty and then posted them on Instagram. Particularly those of us with a BMI over 30 - get ‘em off! This will fix EVERYTHING. It’s Empowerment. Feminism. And it has the added bonus of keeping men happy too.

My teenage daughter has just started back at school. She’s just started getting wolf-whistled and leered at. I’ll get her this notebook and she can start feeling empowered. Thanks Paperchase!

They might have been blinded by two of the bums being men's bums hence inclusivity achieved!

Plenty of people on twitter have been commenting on the whiteness of the arses. Many of the comments are quite funny.

How do you look at that and NOT see a bunch of white arses being used to sell a product because, teehee, knickers and bums?

I suspect that if it were pointed out to them fiercely that the issue is the lack of diversity of a load of white bums, it will get removed from sale. I don't think they would have a come back for that one.

Witty
This small company make my favourite notepads.
www.dotgrid.co/

I also love Rhodia notebooks
www.thewritingdesk.co.uk/brands/rhodia/

I particularly like dotgrid because so much of my work involves sketching diagrams. Then I found it was equally good for me for normal longhand writing.

The boob paper was used in our office by smutty men...

FFS the boobs and IWD badges had passed me by (or I forgot). I'm not propping up misogynists, especially ones that dig their heels in and try to gaslight that showing off white, wedgied women's arses is some how empowering ANY woman.

Now I've got to find a replacement for my beloved notebooks.
Sob. They're the perfect size, great line spacing and margins! Bugger.

www.paperchase.com/en_gb/kraft-large-exercise-book.html

Any ideas welcome

The couple who created it look like a woman and a transman, toffee.

I object in particular to all the cutesy infantilising stuff. Are we really not over the pastels and rainbows and childlike drawings stage yet? It's sickly and starting to look really tired.

A cynical part of me notes that hardly anybody actually learns solid draughtsmanship skills anymore so the current aesthetic is this limp.. well, half arsed crap.

Anyway, other than that, I propose we adopt this new symbol of female empowerment toot suite! We need arseflags and an anthem - 'keep the red pants flying ' maybe. Would also fit with 'wrong side of history my arse' - but the spinners' skills are far superior.

When is the vulva one coming out?

I look forward the male empowerment one of willies. We’ve had bare boobs and ladies bums so far.

Empowered by showing cartoon pictures of arses, my arse.

Ah, the male brain and it's ideas. If only there was a way of getting balanced opinion in industry.

I suspect Neanderthal women has it better.

We’ve come such a long way havent we

Oh oh I know this one miss!!!

Ladies ladies we all know only fuckable women are taken seriously by men. It has come to our attention that some women fear they are not fuckable enough to be taken seriously. But they are wrong! Men like fucking many different shapes and sizes of women. So all you ladies worried about your fuckability factor, relax! Know that you can go out in the world confident in being acceptably fuckable. Men will talk to you and laugh at your jokes because you too are potentially fuckable. Go get em girls.

It isn’t clear of either/both of the creators of this female. Therefore it could be a male impression of female ‘empowerment’. I’d like a bit more of an explanation of that please (it seems to be one of those expressions that is meant to make people go ‘ohhhh, empowerment - that’s a good word isn’t it?’).

Or maybe - a la toffeebutterpopcorn in Primary 2 - they just thought it would be a hoot to decorate their school jotters with bums and hand it to their teacher to make their homework - with bums on it 🤫

wwwwwwwwwwwww

Didn’t we all at that age?