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M&S Reviews

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DevonTF · 22/03/2022 18:04

Looking at period pants - and the first review is this.

Clearly getting a sexual thrill - and M&S have given it a platform. I reported, but still live - so I guess M&S are happily going along with this.

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AlecTrevelyan006 · 25/03/2022 12:54

@greasyshoes

Not every store has stand alone booths, and even if they do, simply because men have access they could very easily put a camera in one.

A male cleaner could put a camera in a changing room. A woman could put a camera in a changing room.

In the tesco and Asda etc you can buy multipacks of knickers that are obviously sealed and have tamper proof seals at that.

You could also buy your underwear online, which means it probably hasn't been displayed in a shop.

You are literally an idiot,
Tortabella · 25/03/2022 12:36

chickenstripper greasy has to be gender critical & playing dumb, there's no way anyone is that dense and annoying on purpose.

Datun · 25/03/2022 11:56

@ChickenStripper

Greasy in their counter posts has actually made this whole thing a lot more revolting than it started out as. Vanilla fetishes 🤮 . He/she has actually in arguing so vehemently made people more revolted by the original issue as if often the case with these things.
Indeed. Sometimes people ask why one should bother responding at all, it's so obviously nonsense.

But if there's one thing I've learnt, the biggest promoter of gender critical feminism is a committed transactivist.

You barely have to respond. Just let them talk.

EricCartmansMagicalUnderpants · 25/03/2022 11:39

The last M&S I went to had booths that could be locked. I don't know if there's a way to know in advance which shops have curtains and which don't, though.

It doesn't matter either way. Born males need to stay out of the women's changing areas. Biology doesn't give a shit about their gender identity. If they need to get changed then the correct changing area for them is the men's.

ChickenStripper · 25/03/2022 11:37

Greasy in their counter posts has actually made this whole thing a lot more revolting than it started out as. Vanilla fetishes 🤮 . He/she has actually in arguing so vehemently made people more revolted by the original issue as if often the case with these things.

ChristinaXYZ · 25/03/2022 11:26

Bump

Datun · 25/03/2022 11:20

Desperate to minimise this, aren't you greasy?

If men have unfettered access to female private spaces, voyeurism, exhibitionism, male dominance and coercion becomes part of it.

You could also buy your underwear online, which means it probably hasn't been displayed in a shop.

... which is the entire purpose of this thread. 🙄

Defending the indefensible.

Needmoresleep · 25/03/2022 11:06

Don't shops care about their brand image.

The earlier knicker reviews, gave me the impression that the M&S brand is tawdry. If browsing on the High Street it is no longer a shop I go into.

crispsarny · 25/03/2022 10:51

Marks & Spencers leading the charge in erasing women & their rights, eroding child safe guarding, normalising paraphilias.

greasyshoes · 25/03/2022 10:31

stand alone booths? A flimsy wee curtain isn’t going to do it for me. There isn’t always someone in the door - so who is going to come running if a woman is flashed or someone ‘accidentally’ flips open the curtain ?

The last M&S I went to had booths that could be locked. I don't know if there's a way to know in advance which shops have curtains and which don't, though.

greasyshoes · 25/03/2022 10:29

Not every store has stand alone booths, and even if they do, simply because men have access they could very easily put a camera in one.

A male cleaner could put a camera in a changing room. A woman could put a camera in a changing room.

In the tesco and Asda etc you can buy multipacks of knickers that are obviously sealed and have tamper proof seals at that.

You could also buy your underwear online, which means it probably hasn't been displayed in a shop.

ScreamingMeMe · 25/03/2022 08:18

@Norma27

Don’t worry greasy. We aren’t concerned you are an m&s troll. Just a bog standard troll with no comprehension or critical thinking skills.
Grin
ScreamingMeMe · 25/03/2022 08:18

Personally though, I tend to be far more concerned with food in supermarkets being contaminated, and there are a few documented cases of that happening.

Hmm

Yes well it's not men's underwear they are wanking off into, it's women's.

KittenKong · 25/03/2022 08:17

There are special shops for fetish wear… but going to a high st store seems to add a little je ne sais pas to it, no?

Norma27 · 25/03/2022 08:12

Don’t worry greasy. We aren’t concerned you are an m&s troll. Just a bog standard troll with no comprehension or critical thinking skills.

LunaLights · 25/03/2022 08:10

Why, whenever gross fetishes are discussed, do certain posters always show up with key words such as “vanilla” and it’s only a mild one, etc. It is a script.

crispsarny · 25/03/2022 07:57

So long Marks & Spencers -
Full Cup Jacquard Bra
Bikini knickers
Cotton nighties
Socks
Jeans
Coats
Lounge wear
Footwear
Hats, scarves & gloves
Purses & bags
Skincare
Perfume
Menswear
Mens aftershave, I purchased their fragrances for all males I know as I highly rated them
Homeware
Greetings cards & accessories
Delivered flowers for the mother in law & husbands auntie
Delivered birthday/anniversary/Christmas gifts for family & friends
Swiss chocolates
Food
Rose Prosecco

Many women spend at Marks, for themselves, their children, their partners, their partners family & friends. I’ve always rated Marks & banged on about them to friends & family who in turn go on to purchase from there. That ends now, FUCK YOU MARKS & SPENCER I will take my business else where.

Terfydactyl · 25/03/2022 07:24

@greasyshoes

If they wont keep changing rooms single sex

Changing rooms in M&S are single sex. They all exist as standalone booths.

and cant guarantee semen free underwear I cant in good conscience buy anything there. Who knows what's on it.

I'm bemused by this one because there's no reason to think this is a problem specific to M&S. Someone could equally try to contaminate clothes in Tesco or Asda. Personally though, I tend to be far more concerned with food in supermarkets being contaminated, and there are a few documented cases of that happening.

Before someone asks, I am not a M&S employee.

Sigh, we have been through this multiple times now. Not every store has stand alone booths, and even if they do, simply because men have access they could very easily put a camera in one. Now you'll say a camera, my God they are huge dont be silly, and I reply for around £40 you can buy a tiny camera that looks like a screw head. Just Google that.

In the tesco and Asda etc you can buy multipacks of knickers that are obviously sealed and have tamper proof seals at that.
What this means is I buy cheap as fuck knickers, when once upon a time I would have bought considerably more expensive ones from m and s but now they let fetishists in and I'd prefer not to be a part of that.

We both lose, m and s lose my custom, I lose out on decent underwear.
And food being contaminated is a different matter.

Datun · 25/03/2022 07:06

As I said greasy, "I know you have no idea about this, but women looking for period pants don't want to read a pervert's story about how he gets off on them."

Even if you think it's 'mild' even if you think it's 'vanilla', even if you think making young girls read the fetish views of adult men is acceptable and even if you are trying to force some kind of comparison with being gay, women still don't want to read it.

You obviously don't understand that.
And yes, you are defending it. Also if a man is incontinent, he will be buying pants designed for men and male anatomy, not women and their periods.

KittenKong · 25/03/2022 07:03

stand alone booths? A flimsy wee curtain isn’t going to do it for me. There isn’t always someone in the door - so who is going to come running if a woman is flashed or someone ‘accidentally’ flips open the curtain ?

greasyshoes · 25/03/2022 00:23

If they wont keep changing rooms single sex

Changing rooms in M&S are single sex. They all exist as standalone booths.

and cant guarantee semen free underwear I cant in good conscience buy anything there. Who knows what's on it.

I'm bemused by this one because there's no reason to think this is a problem specific to M&S. Someone could equally try to contaminate clothes in Tesco or Asda. Personally though, I tend to be far more concerned with food in supermarkets being contaminated, and there are a few documented cases of that happening.

Before someone asks, I am not a M&S employee.

Terfydactyl · 24/03/2022 21:59

@Tortabella

Excellent post pombear

I did sometimes buy clothes online from M&S but won't if this review stands. I have had to deal with enough creepy behaviour from various men in my lifetime, since childhood, I'm not going to give money to a company who exposes me to it when I'm trying to buy underwear.

Their inability to understand how this behaviour affects women is so depressingly telling.

I vaguely remember the original brewhaha over rosie huntington-whiteley collection. All the men practically drooling over knickers. It was back then 2018 I think that I quit buying anything from m and s. If they wont keep changing rooms single sex and cant guarantee semen free underwear I cant in good conscience buy anything there. Who knows what's on it.

Sadly I never spent much in there so I guess they wont go broke just yet.

For knickers now I get multipacks from Asda or Tesco or whatever biggish store I'm in. For bras I'm tending to debenham online at the moment. But that will change if my black light ever shows disturbing stains.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 24/03/2022 21:20

@fieldmarshallzhukovscoat

I changed the gender and a couple of other words, and posted against a 3 pack of men's undies - it got through! This establishment has been truly captured.

Time for me to shop elsewhere me thinks.

Good work
silentpool · 24/03/2022 20:52

I stopped using their changing rooms when this started happening. Anything would get tried on at home. In fact, I rarely use changing rooms any more.

TunaPlastic · 24/03/2022 20:48

No answer from Steve to me yet, but encouraged that the exec team are being forced to discuss it.
I raised brand values and safe guarding....