Woman walked in on in Primark changing room

I'll wait (and open the betting book now) for the case in court where an assaulted woman is told in court by the defense something along the lines of: "you knew that it was an inclusive changing room and you chose to go in there and take your clothes off, so you were asking for it weren't you?"

In the same way that walking home alone in the dark or wearing a short skirt is seen as putting your biology in the path of some poor male who couldn't possibly be expected not to make use of it.

I used to think inclusive was a positive word.

I get so angry about women being made to feel ashamed as though they are bigots for wanting to feel safe. Thousands of years of existence of the human species has created extremely strong survival instincts and for women that means being on guard against men they don't know but we are being told we're bigots if we don't override our instincts to be safe to accommodate men in spaces where we are undressed and vulnerable.

The vast majority of the public are law abiding but we don't leave our front doors unlocked when we go out do we? We don't think people who lock their doors are being bigoted and discriminatory towards their neighbours and general community do we? But women have no right to be safe these days.

ps. some Twitter accounts that have posted the video in the OP have already been suspended. (Wonder who reported such a helpful PSA for women who might be thinking of shopping at Primark?)

As long as it is up, you can download it here if you want to:
video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1573690422278455296/pu/vid/576x1024/ynVVUGURkis0P9FQ.mp4?tag=12

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Massive thread of Primark incidents: sexual assaults on young girls, upskirting, women and girls being filmed in the changing rooms and the footage ending up on porn sites:

twitter.com/SuzzanBlac/status/1453001944373604367

There have been umpteen "Boycott Primark" campaigns and it has made no difference. Most people still don't know and it might be the only affordable clothing shop in town for some women.

Maybe WRN "Shoppers" and/or SFW Local Groups need to think about handing out leaflets outside Primark instead of leaving them in the stores?

I wouldn't expect anyone to do anything I wouldn't be prepared to do myself, I just think this needs a concerted effort to get it in to their thick heads that we have had enough of this shit. Fleeting boycotts and the occasional protest here and there is just water off a duck's back to them.

Of course it will be painted as "anti-trans", the Inclusive Crowd do not give a flying feck about policies that EXCLUDE women and girls: self-exclusion is the only way for them to stay safe from predatory men. (It's not all about YOU, trans peeps! 🙄)

We are not lacking in facts and evidence - what we ARE lacking is them paying the slightest attention to us.

Primark is putting women at risk
Women's Rights Network Response to Viral Video on Voyeurism.
Press Release 25th September 2022
www.womensrights.network/primark-voyeurism

Unisex changing rooms put women in danger
Our investigation shows single-sex facilities are far safer
Andrew Gilligan
Sunday September 02 2018, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
archive.ph/threadreaderapp.com/thread/1453001944373604367.html

Unisex changing rooms put women in danger
22nd February 2021 by FPFW
fairplayforwomen.com/unisex-changing-rooms-put-women-in-danger/

Advice to service providers about female-only changing rooms
15th May 2019 by FPFW
fairplayforwomen.com/changing_rooms/

SINGLE SEX SPACES - WHY?
www.womensrights.network/single-sex-spaces

Single sex services
Single sex services are critical for inclusion. Vulnerable women in particular rely on specialist women’s services such as refuges and rape crisis centres. Everyday services such as changing rooms and hospital wards provide dignity and privacy for all.
sex-matters.org/where-sex-matters/single-sex-services/

sex-matters.org/where-sex-matters/single-sex-services/#publications

Stats for Sex Segregation
"Propensity to Sexually Offend"
i) female ii) male iii) transgender populations of England & Wales
www.sexsegregatedprisons.info/

Women are Human - Clare Dimyon articles
Crime stats
www.womenarehuman.com/author/clare-dimyon/

Poor thing.She was clearly shaken up. For it to happen twice in a row was just horrible. Nasty, circling piranha fish outside her curtain.

Does this say it all about young girls? Accommodating to the nth degree the very people and attitudes that may cause harm to themselves?

No wonder they are getting depressed living as they are with these contradictions.

Women need spaces without men to change in. Then we don't need lockable doors.

Unisex changing rooms need lockable doors, not curtains. I'd argue that all changing rooms need this.

I wish people wouldn’t use the term inclusion I such a basic way. Inclusion doesn’t mean everyone gets to access every service/space/activity. It means people access things ‘fairly’ in a way suitable for their needs…..sometimes that means a group of people having a space to themselves.

this basic misunderstanding of what inclusion means is a big issue!!!

Good news. We need to hear more about this kind of thing. Well done to all you women who resisted.

This is on Free Speech Nation now with Andrew Doyle.

If you would like to write here is the head office address.
www.headofficefinder.co.uk/primark/amp/

Sorry didn't spot that date. My eyes went to the responses below which were about the video.

Changing rooms should be pretty straightforward, all adults of the same sex and only very young children of the opposite. This way no one's safety and privacy is compromised. But no unisex/mixed sex/all gender or whatever else.

Great point.

I guess safeguarding spaces for young girls is just not trendy PR at the moment - like opening up spaces to enby males.

Unisex changing rooms and curtains don't belong together. Either fully closing and locking doors with no gaps or single sex

Oops sorry, hadn't realised that was a 2015 article. So just the 3 occasions this year that have been made public.

thats from 2013!! Has this shit been going on for this long?! Shame on primark and all the other retailers (looking at you M & S) allowing this in the name of “inclusion”. Literally a load of bollocks.

But men would be obvious and hopefully challenged in a women's only changing room. That should at last reduce the number that would attempt anything.

If laws allow mixed sex changing rooms they must also demand locking to the floor doors.
There was research a while back on how women and children are more likely to be attacked in certain public areas, one of those areas being mixed sex changing villages at swimming pools. I don’t see how mixed changing rooms are any different.

And here's another one so that's 4 occasions we know about where women have been violated in Primark changing rooms this year

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11872062.pervert-who-took-photos-of-teenage-girl-in-primark-changing-room-put-on-sex-offenders-register/

Mixed sex changing room and toilets make me feel extremely nervous, not only for myself but for my teen children.

i tell you what i would have made the video and told primark to go fuck themselves not congratulate them-what has this come to apologising for being attacked

They will still be aware of previous incidents i dont think its any better because it may or may not be related to what happened. They are openly proud of their exclusionary policies and would rather place women and girls at risk than say no to men despite the fact women are the majority when it comes to household budgets and organising spends.