To not want Office to tell me I need to shave my legs?

[AliceInWonderland3]

I got an email this week from Office trying to sell me summer shoes, the email also told me not to forget to shave my legs.

AIBU to not want a business who wants female customers telling them they need to shave their legs? I shave my legs because I know people I encounter day-to-day will be horrified by body hair on a woman, but I don't need a business trying to make me feel bad if I choose to go outside without doing so. Or trying to make me feel disgusted by something natural

Yeah but it's quite a ridiculous thing that happened, a shoe company told me to shave my legs, daily mail readers might see something not quite right with that situation. Also it might lead to other media outlets talking about it.

I'm with you OP, it's so much nonsense. YADNBU

Well the article has come out and, as predicted, it's not exactly presenting the full issue.

Plus the comments are again, predictably awful

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3629522/Office-customer-slams-sexist-email-brand-reminding-women-pins-fuzz-free.html

I don't shave my legs. I'd be thinking, "shave your own fucking legs."

Hmmmm, is the OP's real name Emily Chan by any chance?

God I hate it when legs are called "pins" and hair is referred to as "fuzz". What cunts the dm are

I think anyone saying that it's just a choice and social pressure doesn't come into it should read the comments on that DM article.

What's funny is that those twats on the Daily Mail website actually feel so superior to us twats on Mumsnet.
The contempt they have is palpable.
Why?

As for comparing looking at a woman's hairy legs with looking at a guy's cock?! - Wow!

The daily mail commenters are so funny they're terribly concerned that a woman no less is questioning the status quo. Just makes you glad you aren't that small minded or stupid. The article didn't make me out to be a raving mad which I like. And the daily mail asking Office for a comment should make them notice that their marketing team screwed up.

Also on a positive note I saw an advert on the train today for cheap flights, it said not beach body ready and I don't care!

The comments on there are very revealing and prove the threads point.

OP is getting a right pasting in those comments. She's been called (and they are talking directly to her and using her real name) a bad wife, a bad mother, hysterical, stupid, boring, a hairy feminist, pathetic, sad. That at her age (it's given in the article) she's too young to be getting angry about this and she needs to have fun.

Then there's the usual women with hairy legs are ugly, get a razor, get a wax, women are supposed to look nice, mumsnetters are stupid blah blah bullshit.

But no, there's no social pressure on women to remove their body hair.

The funny thing is, the commenters saying it's nothing to get bent out of shape about, are getting much much more bent out shape themselves at a woman who wants to talk about something that bothers her, (and mumsnetters in general it seems). But women are the ones with too much time on their hands, hahahaha.

But women are the ones with too much time on their hands, hahahaha.

Exactly. Despite the inescapable fact that they are the one commenting on the Daily Mail website about a story that apparently holds zero interest for them, about women who they loathe, SHE is the one who needs to get a life.

How does that work?

Ironically, the DM article and all the dim fuckwits who commented on it prove the OP's point nicely.

yy WomenActually

Just wondering if any of the "you need to chill out" brigade on here will think again, or whether it'll just reinforce their views.

Op not sure if I've missed it on the thread, but how did they get your real name and age? Did they email you and ask for comment?

I just stumbled across your news story on DM. I can't believe you spoke to "femail" about this! I'm literally laughing my head off. Of all the newspapers...

Yikes. I've been quoted in the Daily Mail. No one can ever know about this.

PS good work OP . The comments are stupid, as ever, but they will always be stupid. The article, on the other hand, might just give someone (Office's marketing team for one) pause.

It was so predictable that my prediction about the Mail's insane bigoted readers has been fully borne out. I'm not clicking on the link, but I'm guessing they somehow forgot to include my comment.

It's extraordinary that so many of the Mail's commenters are raving misogynists, including their female readers. However, I always get the distinct impression that the male misogynists are that way because they've never actually managed to persuade a women to enter into or stay in any sort of relationship with them due to the fact that they're such sad inadequates.

The hate on there is a thing to behold.

Plenty of people find hairy ('gorilla') legs to be an utter abomination.

I did like this though: Does this vacuous mother not have anything better to do?
(unlike this dear daily mail correspondent who I presume has a million better things to do but er...anyway...It continues)
Is she on benefits with all the time in the world?
(Ummmm - you are doing exactly the same as she is, you twat)

Stop clicking on it! The Daily Mail comments section is always fury invoking.

Katy, 24, who posts under the username AliceInWonderland2

Great proofreading there, right underneath a screenshot that says AliceInWonderland3...

I didn't actually choose the daily mail, they sought me out. I am aware of the irony, it is actually pretty funny. With personal details, the reporter doesn't have enough to track me down. Unfortunately my spam email account that I used to email her the screen shot with betrayed my first name but then it's not a particularly unique name so not that fussed and I said how old I am.

This is now on Sky news

Why do mumsnetters complain about everything?