Lush puts "trans propaganda leaflets" in children's party bags

I second this for Ascent Bath and Body. They’re amazing

What kind of business puts leaflets like this into children’s hands?

Yes! I can't boycott them because I have never been in one. I have to cross to the other side of the shopping centre to get away from the awful smell emanating from the shop. I hope this hits them hard, though.

Lush are awful. I agree, well done 👏

Transactivism plus a Hello Kitty tie-in? Where's the vomiting emoji when you need it?

I'd already checked out of Lush before the breast binders. I'm not one for smellies and buy hand made soap from women with faces who make and sell it on a small scale.

that's a very good point try it

Does this meet the criteria to be reported to Prevent?

@Minimili I’ve just bought some Ascent goodies!! 😊

final straw for me too. A shame as I do like their (very expensive) shower gel. For me it's the dusting powder I'll miss. Not exactly the same as talc. Need to research.

https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/liberation-bath-bomb?queryId=bce28224d78761ba954294140cbfa274

American Cream?! 😶

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02940032/officers

Always fun to look on companies house.

They really are a ghastly company with no boundaries, and I'm surprised they haven't breached something legal in terms of trading? Shops should not be allowed to peddle politics like this, particularly not to children.

I'm always staggered they're still going. Who is paying nearly 9 quid for a one-use bath bomb?!

I noticed last week they had a big pro trans/anti equality act ruling display in the window of a store I pass regularly. It’s the final straw for shopping there for me. Last Christmas I discovered Treaclemoon (available in various places including Boots and Tesco) do a snow fairy dupe that’s pretty good anyway.

I’m going to check this company out as I Iove a nice bath bomb, but not a lush fan at all. Thanks.

Lush have been horrendous on women's rights for a long time.

I remember that awful "cruelty free kisses campaign" - making young female staff wear T-shirts and encourage customers to put lipstick kisses all over them -

Large groups of drunken men were passing through the city centre on their way to the local bars and were drawn in by our display. From then on, they donned lipstick and kissed the most inappropriate places they could find – our breasts, our buttocks and our crotches (the t-shirts were quite long).
https://mitheringsfrommorningside.wordpress.com/tag/lush-cruelty-free-kisses/

Their campaign have also included torturing a woman in the shop window (apparently to show that animal cruelty is bad?) and a nude campaign with all staff just wearing aprons. They have certainly treated some of their staff with no respect

FWS have a rundown of some of it here:
https://womenspeakscotland.com/2020/08/08/lush/

Yeah, seconded! Well done @TinyRebel I hope you have given some other passing customers food for thought.

Most people I speak to irl don't pay enough attention to all this stuff. So when it hits them hard in the face (like Isla byrson and the pink leggings) or overhearing a calm mother trying to explain to a staff member why castration of young kids is not a good idea, it can cause a wtf moment. Maybe you peaked a few people! Sadly not the shop assistant though...

I've always hated bloody Lush. Their stores absolutely stink and the staff obsessively stalk you whilst you are browsing. But this is a good reason to boycott....

There's clearly no basement to the lows that The Right Side of History will stoop to.

Sadly I can't boycott them because I already have, initially because of the headache-inducing smell and subsequently for the naked staff stunt and the binders campaign.

Well, that wasn't hysterical at all, was it, boys and girls? And I note in passing (and I admit it was in passing; I couldn't bring myself to do anything other than skimread the dross) that all of the tragic anecdotes offered up by way of "evidence" that transfolk are truly the most oppressed demographic ever were sobbed out by trans identified men - not a biological female anywhere that I could see. Careful boys, your misogyny's showing. Maybe Lush does a concealer for it..

(if it appears, that post was part of a thread on their investigation into signal.chats mainly among billionaire broligarchs in the US, which they had got hold of some leaks from)

Unfortunately this has crossed the line and will not be buying any products anymore.

@TinyRebel Jesus!!! But well done for sticking that out.

Re the leaflet, I spend a small amount of time on Bluesky and keep seeing posts in the same paranoid vein. Apparently the only reason that some media could possibly have been so quick to report and comment favourably the SC decision is because huge amounts.of dark money had been priming them. That JK is in a signal chat group conspiring with the govt and media (image may appear of that one, the bluesky poster is American i thin). Etc

And not just because the SC said what loads of us have been thinking all along 🙄.

As a donor to FWS myself I felt rather offended to be labelled as in the pay of a right wing conspiracy.

The pdf of the booklet is here for anyone interested and yes it is as bad as The Times article suggests.

https://transactual.org.uk/the-dream-vs-reality/

Well, there is that too.
I cough and choke and pass on the far side of the road.