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Go Woke & Go Broke! New list of boycotted brands..

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 07:03

So it's June & so far the big companies that are being heavily boycotted are as follows..

Innocent Drinks & smoothies
Oxfam
Target
Nike
Bud Lite
Lego
NZ products
Starbucks

Who am I missing?

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TastesLikeStrawberriesOnASummerEvening · 08/06/2023 17:51

SequinDiscoBiscuits · 08/06/2023 17:47

Ah noooo what have Adidas done? Been a customer for 30 years 😑

I really want new gazelles too.

SequinDiscoBiscuits · 08/06/2023 17:47

Ah noooo what have Adidas done? Been a customer for 30 years 😑

IamRoyFuckingKent · 08/06/2023 17:42

John Lewis can fuck off
Ocado surprisingly doesn't seem to be joining in so I'm still buying from them

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 17:38

@DeflatedAgain me too. In general though I find mumsnet great especially regarding education & child rearing. I have learned so much. My children are so young still & I'm shocked at all the indoctrination & hidden messages. Thank God for mumsnet.

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DeflatedAgain · 08/06/2023 16:42

featuring drag as “inclusive” when many find it offensive and a parody of women.

I'm pretty new to these threads and find it all so eye opening. I have never even thought of this before and it resonates deeply with me the more I think about it.

Thanks all for the constant conversation on this board, I am learning so much.

Kimchikeffir · 08/06/2023 16:33

I don’t do twitter at the moment, have Oxfam deleted that dreadful anti women film

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 16:18

@BCCoach I think it's ultimately what's going to happen though. People are sick of woke companies preaching & virtue signalling.

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BCCoach · 08/06/2023 12:43

I really don't like the phrase "Go Woke, Go Broke". It's currently being levelled at Fender because they have the temerity to feature lots of women (OG variety) and black artists in their "Featured Artist" series and sponsored players. Nova Twins (black, female, British) in particular seem to have triggered a massive backlash.

Maybe I'm missing the point but that was the first time I saw the phrase used and it just seems to be a rallying call for overt racists.

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 12:31

@SorryAuntLydia thanks, I'll refer back to this. It's a powerful feeling to decide where to spend your money & with all this talk of "values", I won't spend my money on any company that devalues biological women or tries to dictate to me "what's ok to say"..... I'm not that innocent!

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SorryAuntLydia · 08/06/2023 11:46

This is my list
Adidas
Billingtons
Bodyform
Body shop
British Library
Burbury
Calvin Klein
Dorsey cereal
House of Fraser
Lush
Oreo
M and S
John Lewis
Primark
Always brand
Gillette
Estée Lauder including jo malone, Ck, Mac, Clinique
Monsoon
Seafolly
Snag
Starbucks
Tate gallery
Nike
Alpro
The Northface
Mattel
Flora
Innocent
Waitrose
Tampax
Sainsburys
McCain
Halifax
Wagamama

arethereanyleftatall · 08/06/2023 11:32

Eh @Gtsr443?!?

I presume you've completely misunderstood the point.

That's exactly the point - it's a vital operation for women with breast cancer, and then there is completely healthy breasts undergoing the same surgery!! That's literally precisely the travesty.

Capitalismwantsyou · 08/06/2023 11:30

Gtsr443 · 08/06/2023 11:09

Ah yes - all us post cancer mastectomy women with our "tits cut off" aren't normal.
Fucking do one. You people aren't feminists.

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I think the point is ModiBodi showing/implying healthy breasts being cut off...?

TUCKINGFYP0 · 08/06/2023 11:26

I’m not a doctor . But somehow I’m able to tell the difference between

adult women who reluctantly give fully informed consent to have a mastectomy as part of cancer treatment to save their lives and

teenagers and young women with mental illness / autism / who have been traumatised or sexually abused , who are then lied to to by HCP and have their completely healthy breasts cut off because they erroneously believe that it will turn then into a man .

Most women who have had mastectomies for medical reasons are the very people who are fighting to stop young women having this surgery because of alleged gender dysphoria. They know how hard it is and why these young women need psychological support, not surgery.

Gtsr443 · 08/06/2023 11:09

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Ah yes - all us post cancer mastectomy women with our "tits cut off" aren't normal.
Fucking do one. You people aren't feminists.

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 11:03

@Figment1982 no I'd never have had lego on the list either. It was that Pink News article linked that claimed Lego was being boycotted but as @StemStem pointed out they are still carrying the Harry Potter line & new sets have been added to range last month. Ds got a cool Dobby set at the weekend. So I won't add Lego to the boycott list!

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Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 08/06/2023 11:00

@Porkandbeans1
yeah, it was all a complete coincidence. Nothing to do with Satan or special swimmies at all

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Figment1982 · 08/06/2023 10:59

I will happily boycott companies who have shown absolute disdain for women.. Oxfam is the one that immediately springs to mind this week, and Nationwide before that (mainly because of the reaction of the 'intern' on that post, threatening to block people who didn't agree) but I don't think we need to boycott any company who simply have pride stuff up.. I may roll my eyes at the pink washing but I don't see anything that e.g. Lego have done that is terrible.

Abhannmor · 08/06/2023 10:55

Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 10:17

Moomoola, yes will do. Walked past their virtue signalling pride window in my local schooling centre last night.. That found family campaign is definitely odd.. There seems to be an underlying determination by many activist groups & companies to break up & "rebrand" the traditional nuclear family. @Moomoola hope your doing OK?

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Older MNers will recall the Hyde Park Diggers led by the anarchist Syd Rawle. They set up communes etc. One of them , Ubi Dwyer , coined a slogan ' the family is an emotional gas chamber!'.

I thought this was brilliant when I was a teeny. There are indeed many problems with the nuclear family and maybe the extended family was better in some ways. But just smashing it all up has never worked either.

Anyway if memory serves me right old Ubi got religion before he passed away. Meanwhile....the struggle for a struggle is real....

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 10:48

@Moomoola I completely believe you, it really is breaking up families.. There seems to be a divide & conquer mentality. Clever, innocent branding designed to reel very young children in.. After all we do have an inherent need as humans to belong to a community or "tribe"... It's fucking scary.
@Moomoola mumsnet is a fantastic resource & hopefully your daughter will come to her senses soon. X

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Moomoola · 08/06/2023 10:29

Thanks moonandstarz I'd just like to tell the world that this bollocks actually affects real people, and real families.

And I'd really like to shake the young trendies in advertising that are so up their own bums they don't realize the damage they are actually causing.
Grrrr.

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 10:17

Moomoola · 08/06/2023 09:56

Thanks op. Great idea for a thread.
can we add primark? As a mum with a daughter who’s been persuaded to run off to a glitter family, I find this obscene.

https://www.primark.com/en-us/a/inspiration/special-occasions/celebrating-found-families

Moomoola, yes will do. Walked past their virtue signalling pride window in my local schooling centre last night.. That found family campaign is definitely odd.. There seems to be an underlying determination by many activist groups & companies to break up & "rebrand" the traditional nuclear family. @Moomoola hope your doing OK?

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BlackeyedSusan · 08/06/2023 10:02

Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 07:42

No as there's no alternatives.. At least with Innocent smoothies there is all the super market brands which taste very similar & are much cheaper.. My kids are happy with the switch..
Not as easy to do that with lego unfortunately..

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There are brick alternatives to Lego. Wilco's do fake lego. As do some other places.

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Moonandstarz · 08/06/2023 09:47

Porkandbeans1 · 08/06/2023 09:32

The target share price is far more complex than this. The current slump isn't solely related to this. Their profit margins are down and they have quite a lot of debt. Many in the US are tightening their belts in anticipation of student loan repayments restarting, they have had a 3 year pause due to covid. And most shares are institutionally owned, so in pension funds, mutual funds, investment companies etc.

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So it really wasn't a clever move on Targets part taking all this into consideration?

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Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 08/06/2023 09:42

Adidas ( bloke in swimsuit) 🤢

lucky for me that my running days are over….

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