Woman walked in on in Primark changing room

That tweet wasn't in response to the woman assaulted as it was posted on the 22nd, more than 24 hours before the video surfaced.

I don't understand what the tweet was about though

Oh my god. Are they serious?!

Good to see the ratio but I doubt it'll change anything. Primark don't give a toss.

I would interpret that as it being a red flag if you refuse to offer yourself up to predetory men in their changing rooms. That they support their policy and they don't care about having lost one its only a silly woman after all.

when they don't shop at primark (red flag emojis)

i don't get it? what does that mean

Victim blaming at it’s most misogynistic That tweet has just put that poor girl at greater risk.

Primark is owned by Associated British Foods which in turn is owned by these people www.wittington-investments.co.uk/about-us/people/

mobile.twitter.com/Primark/status/1572859494190972928

oops my bad, here's their response.

Yay! Inclusive for everyone ..... except women who've dared to go shopping without a chaperone. What wonderful progress!

I went to the ladies loo at a motorway service station last week and when I came out of the cubicle I could immediately feel a charged atmosphere. I looked around and a man had walked in the entranceway. A couple of women were standing in front of him and one said something (presumably pointing out he was in the ladies or asking him to leave). He looked a bit confused, although you clearly had to walk past the gents to get to the ladies and he left. I know this sounds like hyperbole but I was proud of that atmosphere, not an eyes down acceptance, not wanting to make waves. At least a dozen women just standing stock still in a flash of solidarity. I suspect there will be a backlash to complete inclusion and it’s coming.

Last mixed sex toilets I saw... a door from bar area leads to a room with sinks in it. To the right are 4 cubicles with pictures of men and women on them. To the left is another door which leads to the men's toilets.

And even then there would be an increased risk of a man leaving a camera there and accessing the footage remotely.

And it wouldn't address women's reasonable desire to be able to step out of the cubicle and look at the clothes from a distance in a full length mirror without men around

And it's the third abuse of the primark changing rooms that I'm aware of this year.

The other 2 are:

Sheffield primark in August twitter.com/bbcsheffield/status/1560621388033056768?s=21&t=6TrAxUbjgoPnRY_cbpe6gw

And The police officer who took video footage in March www.itv.com/news/london/2022-07-22/met-pc-who-filmed-woman-changing-and-made-indecent-images-of-child-walks-free

I refuse to have the rights and freedoms I grew up with abolished

Especially when the only reason you are able to protest, complain against them is because you have them.

If the women before these young women joining the mra/tra crews against feminists and " dinosaurs/terfs" whatever it is they wanna call us, hadn't fought for womens rights , then they'd be no female students at university to protest against speakers.

They'd have no job to complain about " transphobic policies"

They'd not be able to get a train to speakers corner or to picket outside a building. I mean they would have no money. No bank account. Nothing.

So Monsoon gets one tweet from a tearful young man upset that he can't use the women's changing rooms, in response they declare all changing rooms open to everyone and, here, have a free dress crying boy, we'll get the nasty ladies under control for you.

Primark has been trending since yesterday, currently on 22k tweets. Absolute silence.

When will women get the same power and influence as a single teenage boy?

Exactly this.

I refuse to accept the only way to avoid harassment by strange men is to stay in your own home. I refuse to have the rights and freedoms I grew up with abolished.

The dissonance between being inclusive and finding out that the inclusiveness puts you at risk is huge

It must be horrifying to realise that the very men /males who says you'd be perfectly safe and welcomed you to the group when you said all the right things about inclusivity and NAMALT are now nowhere to be seen. They arent there to protect you and will now pile on you for raising the issues.

It was all for nothing

I feel so sorry for her, she has had a dreadful shock, learning a hard way that although NAMALT, lots are.

The dissonance between being inclusive and finding out that the inclusiveness puts you at risk is huge.

Women need their own spaces for their physical safety. It is disgusting this is being eroded.

That video is heart breaking. Shes apologising fir being traumatised and grateful for being walked to the car by the very people implementing policies that put her in the traumatic situation in the first place.

And this is progressive? Lone women and girls excluded from primark unless they have the time and money to buy multiple clothes in multiple sizes and return what doesn't fit? All so men don't have to hear the word no..a word even toddlers understand...

I went to a venue last night that had gender neutral toilets upstairs and separate male and female downstairs. Initially I didn't realise that the upstairs were gender neutral so headed that way. I saw big burly blokes exiting and I was hit by the smell of piss. I was directed to the female toilets. Job done ✔️. None of the females used the GN. So in that venue the men had 2 x toilets and women just one.
So now in Primark if we all try our clothes on at home the men have their own changing room and we have none? Single sex spaces are still a thing... if you are male.

exactly

nothing a man can do will make him less of a man and more of a woman

cos that's not possible

in the 'good' old days, exceptions were made for the small number of men who had undergone radical surgery or were evidently committed to wearing stereotypically female clothes and make up

however I have shared single sex spaces with individuals like this and can't say it was ever a comfortable experience. I still perceived them as men.

while I accept that shop staff can't possibly be expected to police single sex spaces, at least having them would be a good start. those men who upset that woman were opportunist predators. primark gave the the opportunity to get their jollies. like most bullies they're probably cowards and wouldn't have invaded a women's changing rooms.