Fuck Oxfam

Additionally, it should really be someone's job at some point in the process to check whether something looks a bit Nazi.

From the mail
Oxfam could face Charity Commission probe after JK Rowling cartoon https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12171955/Oxfam-face-Charity-Commission-probe-cartoon-depicting-JK-Rowling-anti-trans-demon.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

I wonder who it was who suggested using JKR as the model for this image - was it the agency or someone who was briefing them? Who did the artwork - did they realise who it was or did they think they could ‘get away’ with it and it would be their ‘in joke’? Is this agency really ‘woman led’? Or are they going to blame over zealous interns?

The upshot is - someone wrote the brief and had numerous meetings with the agency at each stage. They approved the visuals, the theme, the storyboard, the content, the final cut.

People in Oxfam will have seen the artwork in progress and probably many versions of the film as it was being produced. It would have then been presented in its final form for approval. Chances are it will have been circulated internally before it was launched.

Yes I’ve worked client side, and know that there are many opportunities to catch ‘problematic’ content - so can only assume those at Oxfam who were responsible for commissioning this and approved it were absolutely pushing and agenda.

So many opportunities for someone with half a brain to say ‘so much over the top melodrama, so much hatred and insults…’

Times leading article is about Oxfam today:

I should imagine the hordes of fuming people cancelling their direct debits and even legacies in their wills, absolutely suggest that the public have lost confidence in the charity.

And while this won't be visible, there'll be plenty of us who have nothing to cancel because we withdrew support due to Oxfams previous conduct, but who've still clocked the misogyny and antisemitism inherent here.

Well done on challenging that @sseXX .

I should imagine the hordes of fuming people cancelling their direct debits and even legacies in their wills, absolutely suggest that the public have lost confidence in the charity.

The sector in general. With people assuming that the top brass in these charities are just milking them.

The BBC article posted earlier (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65831823) had this line: "Rowling has spoken against allowing trans people access to single-sex spaces." I emailed to point out this was incorrect and I see it's been changed to "Rowling has spoken against allowing trans women access to women-only spaces."

Considering the topic of the article, it's a bit sneaky to correct it without acknowledging the edit anywhere.

Janice Turner in the Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8cf8c722-055f-11ee-9bf2-8ca4db35d928?shareToken=d56301bbc7994a40c4070be60c2f4437

I see #OxfamHatesWomen is gaining some traction on twitter.

I hope they are squirming.

I hope they have had volunteers resign.

I hope that have had lots of direct debits stopped.

I hope the postie covering their HQ has had to take up weight lift because of the complaints.

I hope this keeeps going because it has been too much for too long from Oxfam. It is not the odd root and branch, the whole plant is riddled with misogyny.

And I hope lots of other good charities actually doing what they're supposed to do, instead of virtue signalling and bullying people, get lots more money instead.

The 6 million dollar question @JanesLittleGirl .

Remarkable how they know which sex to use and abuse and also which sex they need to volunteer in all their shops and do all the tedious, boring stuff - empowering women yeah right.

Were the guys who indulged in rape and forced prostitution in Haiti and DRC fucking women and girls or people who identified as women and girls?

Oh right, so it is! Silly me.

Oxfam should never have survived the sexual assault and rape that their workers indulged in in Haiti and Chad, they tefloned away from that, none of those workers faced criminal charges and the man in charge was allowed to resign.

Somehow those doing the assaulting and raping were very aware of the sex of those they wished to rape and assault, those poor girls and women could not identify out of it. How ironic the Guardian picture had Empowering Women in their headline, aid workers raping them is empowering is it Oxfam?

That is a fake though.

Either way, the fact that Oxfam might get away with this doesn’t mean others would. And the fact that the charity commission is taking it seriously, should be enough to stop other organisations from doing a similar fucked up campaign.

Even if it doesn't get that far, just the fact that they are having to think about whether Oxfam has 'undermined public trust and confidence in the charity sector' is pretty big. No charity of that size[1] should be doing anything that even makes that a question.

[1] No charity of any size should, but particularly one big enough to have a full time comms and.policy departments, and in-house lawyers.

Bloody hell WTAF are Oxfam thinking? I’ll avoid them like the plague in future.

Such a biased and dangerous approach.

Thinking about it - id rather support local charities anyway.

From the same article:

"The Charity Commission said it was assessing the complaints in the context of its regulatory and risk framework, which requires it to take action if it considers a charity has undermined public trust and confidence in the charity sector."

A lot of ifs, however, if that ends up being an investigation and if it goes against Oxfam, there are other charities that'll need to take note.

Interesting choice of image to accompany the article.

" The UK charities watchdog is assessing whether it will take action against Oxfam after receiving complaints about a cartoon published by the charity that ignited a row about transgender issues."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/oxfam-pride-month-cartoon-charities-watchdog

I'm not daft. Of course I have written to Oxfam. A first class letter to HQ and another letter hand delivered to the local shop.

Why do you think that's bad? Are you a transphobe?

JK Rowling: Oxfam sorry for video after 'cartoon JK Rowling' accusation www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65831823

Backpedaling from Oxfam.