What little acts of rebellion or activism do you do?

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I’m not talking about going on marches, but minor things, that you know about.

Mine is I won’t play Michael Jackson songs, after all the alleged behaviour, which certainly wouldn’t be accepted by today’s standards.

The second is I won’t buy McCain products, after they put out an advert for Smileys, which referred to ‘knocker’s’ in them. I thought that language had died out in the seventies.

I think they also had a man in the West End before Dylan. That put me off.

Love this thread .. is there a comprehensive list of shops etc we could boycott.. if we wanted to obviously
And thanks to whoever said about the earrings, it was on my extensive to do list but will now prioritise

not moving out of the way for men. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
edited for clarity

Sincerely hope that’s ironic 😂😂

Any leader that thinks he can magic women's breasts larger cannot be taken seriously.

Any leader that wants unregulated hard drugs is mad as a hatter.

I've been boycotting Nestle as far as possible for many years.

I've massively reduced my spending on US-owned companies and products in the hope that a boycott would put pressure on Trump.

If an online form or survey asks for my gender not sex, I always select "prefer not to say", when this option is available. Such organisations need to read The Equality Act and find out what the nine protected characteristics actually are.

Years ago, I lived near a pub which had a blackboard outside their door advertising the "Special's". If I was walking past, I used to rub off any incorrect apostrophes.

I haven't stepped foot in a Starbucks since they were selling Mermaid-shaped biscuits to raise funds for that dreadful charity approx. 6 years ago.

I no longer buy Ben&Jerry's, Innocent smoothies or Tampax because I have no desire to support corporate stances or campaigns that I believe undermine women's rights.

It gave me particular pause that a company mainly making period products apparently didn't clearly understand what a woman was.

I hardly wear mine but made a point of doing so when travelling through certain countries recently, much to the horror of friends who thought it made me a target … the irony was lost on them !!

When driving, if there is a "give way" road feeding on to the road which I'm on, I only let a car in if the driver is a woman.

My logic is that there is more expectation of woman's appearance etc, so it probably took her longer to get ready than a man. Therefore I let her in to save her some time to make up for it slightly. But a man I will not.

Last time I did this, the man started beeping aggressively. So I pointed at the floor where the give way sign was and mouthed "give way" at him and shrugged. It's on him to give way to me, not he other way round.

He then started following me and screaming abuse at me whilst driving.

Wow. I honestly think a woman would never have done that.

I wear a necklace with a small and cute crucifix pendant. I am not Christian, merely a woman from the Middle East who is deeply disturbed by the encroaching religion that is now taking hold in this country and capturing the institutions. It’s my way of saying ‘you can ruin this country through hijrah and jihad but you won’t hijack my soul’.

My aim in life will be to open people’s minds a tiny bit and to plant seeds in there. I will try to overcome my Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (a symptom of ADHD) and not take it to heart when people call me ‘religion of peace-phobic’ because I will know that I am on the side of what is right. It is easier to appease and bend over backwards but that enrages and empowers them more. They only respect strength, not weakness. So I respond with strength (crucifix, universalism) rather than weakness (atheism, moral relativism).

If you disagree with my values, I don’t care. Thanks.

I am trying not buying American products when alternatives are available.

I use Ecosia as a search engine though (www.ecosia.org) instead of Google 90% of the time (I still use google for maps and translations), and they plant trees which is good.

Also, when I was employed by for terrible big corporate companies (now self employed), I used to take a notebook and pen to every meeting.

I'd spend all meeting furiously scribbling notes.

My manager one time asked why no one else was taking notes like me? Why was I always the only one to ever take notes? Why couldn't all the others be more like me?

Little did he know, I was putting those hours spent in pointless meetings to very good use by writing my business plan 😌

I did not know that - nasty

Also as another poster:

Don’t by Starbucks as they don’t pay proper tax in the UK.

Yes - they are thoroughly dangerous - wolves in sheeps clothing

This is probably petty, but I boycott Specsavers because an assistant in our local branch was rude and dismissive to my teenage son when he went in with a gift card he'd been given for Christmas.

Can't stand Starbucks coffee 🤢

How could there be a comprehensive list of shops to boycott? You’ve not given an issue you’d like to boycott over! People would disagree eg some would boycott Israeli products, others would boycott brands who have been pro-Palestinian.

@LanaDelBoi thought about wearing a crucifix in terms of a sort of commitment to western civilisation but I don't want to hijack a religious symbol

I go to church very, very occasionally as I find it comforting. So I'm not sure where I am with that. I like that you are doing it though.

@WerzMyHedAt your description of that driving makes me wonder ....and frankly your reasoning about women taking longer to get ready is completely mad

Why was the "Give Way" sign on the floor? Baffled.

I’ve noticed that these days ‘Karen’ means a woman or a man who’s acting like an entitled dick. Think the term’s become gender neutral. Or a lot of those Karen YouTube videos feature both Karen’s and ‘Kevins’ (a male Karen) equally. Gotta admit, some of them are highly entertaining, and I do enjoy the male Karen/kevin ones a lot more!

I'm happy that more manufacturers are removing gelatine. There is no good reason for sweets to contain meat. Gelatine does not add flavour, so if any sweets have become tasteless it will be due to cost-cutting on other aspects of the recipe. See also, Cadbury's chocolate.

Because that's where the give way triangle is painted....

It's not mad, it's logic. Women typically take longer to get ready.

A man is aggressive to me and somehow it's my fault.. okay 😅

I try to avoid American products. Not always successfully.
When supermarkets put up prices, I try to change what I buy so the overall cost is the same. Sometimes I just buy less. Putting up prices doesn’t mean I buy more or even the same.
Ditto clothes shopping. I just buy less. My budget stays the same.

Right? What a bizarre thing to ask for, a boycott list! That poster must
have meant in relation to a specific issue. Otherwise it makes no sense.

By the way, loving your username 😊 💫 🫶🏾

When I started uni 40 yrs ago the national student body were boycotting Barclays Bank because of its association with South Africa. Now there was a real cause, the anti apartheid movement.
Even now I subconsciously avoid Barclays. I wouldn’t consider having a Barclaycard.

I post Reforms campaign leaflets back to them, along with any other junk mail I get, makes for a thick envelope.