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Dr Martens Queer Joy

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Potaytoe5 · 02/08/2023 18:05

Sorry if there's already a thread about it, I couldn't find it!
Dr Martens boots showing a trans man with scars from mactectomy.
Apparently not mass produced, but one off. But why...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/01/dr-martens-queer-joy-boot-trans-mastectomy-scars/#Echobox=1690913440

Interestingly, on fb comments are rather supportive so far.

Dr Martens’ ‘queer joy’ boot features trans person with ‘mastectomy scars’

Rainbow-coloured footwear sparks backlash with some accusing shoe brand of promoting ‘grotesque’ ideology

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/01/dr-martens-queer-joy-boot-trans-mastectomy-scars#Echobox=1690913440

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elgreco · 02/08/2023 20:22

Ugly ugly artwork.

Anxioys · 02/08/2023 20:07

You can buy original Docs (Solovair) in the UK. Better quality and no agenda aside from being good on your feet.

Dombasle · 02/08/2023 20:06

I boycotted them awhile back. Any of these companies that push an evil agenda will not be receiving money from me.

ChristinaXYZ · 02/08/2023 20:04

Yes, along with Costa rather grim. My DD can forget me subsidising her next docs.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/08/2023 19:38

I gather that Doc Martens are now made in China and it's in no sense an ethical or counterculture brand.

I hadn't grasped before this week's furore that Costa now belongs to Coca Cola, so that's another reason to avoid it, along with the shite coffee and the mindless use of a transman with mastectomy scars image.

BeaumontLivingston · 02/08/2023 19:22

And Costa. It's a big industry and corporations all funnel up to the same point where a few people own them all under different names.

Cosmetic surgery is a huge business as is the drug market to deal with its lifelong effects so of course corporations are all for it. It makes their shareholders money in various ways.

BabyStopCryin · 02/08/2023 19:16

Why such a feminine face though and a ‘girls’ hairdo? And those weird wing like flappy arms. Hate this visual style.

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