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Lush Binder Collection

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Sexnotgender · 08/11/2021 21:06

Assuming this is a way for predominantly children to circumvent parents and get their hands on a binder.

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KittenKong · 09/11/2021 08:58

So I wonder who else is doing this? Is there a ‘collection list’ on the binder site?

KittenKong · 09/11/2021 08:40

There is just something quite sinister in trying to create the visual of a young man (the flat chest, narrow waist/hips, fine bone structure). Who wants that?

DevonTF · 09/11/2021 08:38

I have written to the HO - have shared with teenage daughters (who find the gender stuff ridiculous) - who will tell their friends what is wrong with Lush (they already wont shop there after all the previous shit they have pulled)

I have also posted on the PTA sites.

Told Lush all of this.

ahagwearsapointybonnet · 09/11/2021 08:36

This needs to be in the news. Hope Janice Turner, James Kirkup etc and maybe even someone at the Observer (if not the Guardian) will cover it.

I started boycotting Lush a while back after there were several stories about their treatment of female staff (the lipstick kissing promo, the naked one with just aprons, etc) and then fundraising for Mermaids and putting up signs telling people with "signs of transphobia" (such as, er, wanting to keep prisons single-sex, or knowing the dictionary definition of "woman") that they were not welcome (more on these here womenspeakscotland.com/2020/08/08/lush/ ).

But this is actively promoting a self-harming practice, which can cause permanent physical damage and encourage girls towards double mastectomy later on as their breasts are so damaged - to children, in secret, without their parents' knowledge. It's unforgivable and every parent who shops there needs to know about it.

KittenKong · 09/11/2021 08:27

Their landlord may be interested too.

Elleexxtra · 09/11/2021 08:20

@NecessaryScene

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

This is "tip off the media" level.

Already done
KittenKong · 09/11/2021 08:16

It will just take one angry momma bear to go down there...

NecessaryScene · 09/11/2021 08:15

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

This is "tip off the media" level.

Lovelyricepudding · 09/11/2021 08:09

Surely this opens up lush to be sued? It is clear that binders cause harm.

PaterPower · 09/11/2021 08:08

I can still see the old comments under the specific post (just went to check).

Unsure33 · 09/11/2021 08:07

I emailed them . It’s disgusting.

KittenKong · 09/11/2021 08:03

Sure someone has screen shotted them. I doubt it will stop them - the excitement of it being under the counter, by word of mouth...

PaterPower · 09/11/2021 08:00

”They have deleted the comments and they are switched off”

When you don’t like the feedback you’re getting, it’s ALWAYS the best move to stick your fingers in your ears and shout “La-La-La I’m not listening” Hmm

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

littlebilliie · 09/11/2021 07:55

They have deleted the comments and they are switched off

MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/11/2021 07:50

@Elleexxtra

Hopefully they'll listen to the backlash?

I guess the younger girls are the less damage they can do.

I still feel like I'm in an alternate universe though.

I'm hoping it's just a rogue manager who got high on sniffing bath bombs and not a company sanctioned action.

I suspect that the younger girls when they bind their breasts, the more damage they do. It's why foot binding happened at such a young age so that bones, muscles and tendons were compressed and out of shape leading to girls being unable to ever walk and run freely. In the same way developing breast tissue is wrecked from early binding.
KittenKong · 09/11/2021 07:45

When I was a teen , young uns would hang out in Virgin and Flip. Worst we would bring home is something dreadful records and posters, weird second hand clothes or maybe the odd boyfriend. Nothing so... so damn damaging.

Elleexxtra · 09/11/2021 07:39

Hopefully they'll listen to the backlash?

I guess the younger girls are the less damage they can do.

I still feel like I'm in an alternate universe though.

I'm hoping it's just a rogue manager who got high on sniffing bath bombs and not a company sanctioned action.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 09/11/2021 07:32

Good to see that the majority of comments on that dreadful Instagram posts are outraged. Imagine being the parent of a teenager and discovering that Lush are colluding with distressed girls who hate their bodies, enabling them to self harm in secret?

What a world that has such toxic adults and companies in it.

heldinadream · 09/11/2021 07:27

They'll be offering FGM next. Horrendous.

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Sexnotgender · 09/11/2021 07:24

@CheeseMmmm

Insurance for what?

I think the binders are being distributed by a separate org anyway.

For the time when everyone wakes up, realises the damage and sues the company that provided the product that caused the damage.
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KittenKong · 09/11/2021 07:22

At a mainline station too. How many parents are merrily waving their girls off for a ‘day shopping in London’ when they are trotting off to Lush to pick up their modern instruments of torture.

I’m sure the staff will be hi-5ing them and providing all the affirmation they can handle. It will be a fashionable thing to do.

Doubletoilandtrouble · 09/11/2021 07:22

Harder to treat breast cancer? That is so heartbreaking Sad

DogDaysNeverEnd · 09/11/2021 07:22

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Sexnotgender · 09/11/2021 07:20

Doesn't it also make treating breast cancer more difficult?

Because the tissue has been broken up/damaged and is no longer all in one place?

Oh wow, is that true? It makes sense but sweet Jesus 😞 I hope that’s not true.

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NellieEllie · 09/11/2021 07:11

Lush providing supplies to children for self harm.
Commercial great binders are the ones that have been found to have the most ill effects.
Including lung damage.