Why are ASDA normalising paedophilia and Child Abuse?

[Sunkisses]

Is it OK for ASDA to send parents emails linking to an organisation that normalises paedophilia with red flag phrases such as "love has no age", and recommending books for children that contain explicit descriptions of child sex abuse? Why are they doing this? Are ASDA experts in home schooling and safeguarding? More details in this excellent thread by Safe Schools Alliance: twitter.com/SafeSchools_UK/status/1272638132589035520

@macaronilemonpony

‘Didn’t Asda recently hand out pronoun badges to staff? I mean, why?’

No, they made them available to staff who wanted to wear them. They were asked to by some staff, that’s why. Big difference.

I have a butch lesbian friend, who gets taken for a Man all the time, she’d prefer not to be - and wears the badge. Saves embarrassment all round.

Why didn't she ask for a badge that says she's a butch lesbian?

What ARE you people on??

I would guess they saw the packs beeing distributed in Warwickshire education area amongst others, advising yr7 ages how to accommodate anal sex with distinct overtones that this is something normal girls did.

If I hadn't gone to read it I wouldn't have believed it.

I'm old enough to remember the damage done to gay rights campaigning in the 80s by the incursion of PIE and other paedophile groups in the the CCL and other well meaning but but overly accommodating groups. It was always soft words, reasonable sounding small changes - the salami slicer attack.

Did immense damage to the actual fight for gay rights at that time as well as the CCL.

Asda need to be completely transparent about this. How many customers were sent this information? Have the resources been removed? Has a follow up email been sent to apologise and link to suitable child safeguarding resources?

@macaronilemonpony

‘How can anyone describe introducing anal sex as normal ‘

What ARE you people on??

I don’t really get this comment - is it an attempt at whatever the opposite of kink shaming is?

Preferring-ordinary, non-painful sex shaming?

Are we being shamed for not wanting our children to risk rectal perforation or complete anal sphincter disruption for the sake of sexual penetration?
For not wanting ‘sex positive’ orgs to encourage our children into risking those injuries (and certainly not via grocery store marketing)?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437385/

www.sciforschenonline.org/journals/surgery-open-access/article-data/JSOA-3-155/JSOA-3-155.pdf

Because nothing is going to make me feel shame about that.

I know Lillian

I would guess a call has gone out somewhere on Twitter. The FWR section see endless, bloody endless amounts of this.

People shouldn't just be writing to the CEO. They should be going into schools and asking to speak to managers. Make sure the staff at lower levels know whats going on, as well as the management at HQ.

I would suggest anyone defending the unsolicited discussion of sex with stranger's kids needs to have a bit of a hard think about why they think it's ok (and assume they don't have kids).

Children absolutely do not need to know anything about what certain adults’ particular kinks are. That applies to anal sex, as a relevant example, and everything else. These are adult themes, for adults.

Children do not need to be introduced to things to do with sex and sexual expression that are not appropriate for their development stages. It often goes along with grooming to think that everyone does it (or lots of people do it) everyone likes it (or lots of people like it) or the idea that an appetite that is almost exclusively male is something that girls, in particular, should be okay with.

It is not healthy for them, it is not appropriate.

@macaronilemonpony

‘How can anyone describe introducing anal sex as normal ‘

What ARE you people on??

The side of safeguarding children.

Yes. As I keep saying, I know exactly where the line is. And I will not be moved.

We see you.

They've removed the "love has no age limit" line too. I have the original version of the PDF if anyone needs it.

I find it weird that Asda's response to a corporate fuckup on this scale - promoting "love has no age limit" to primary school children nationwide - was to sneakily edit the offending lines, rather than to review the partnership, sack some team members, and issue a heartfelt apology.

I hope it's a mistake. I think we should all write to them so they are aware of the mistake and of how customers feel.

Here's a screenshot of age has no limits.

Very, very sneaky of Asda to try and delete bits out of the PDF they shared.

Are customisers expected to to have the wool pilled over their eyes?

I’m going to say it here like I did on the Body Shop thread:

You as a corporation are not my moral superior. Don’t you dare try to lecture me whilst trying to take my money. Your remit is to sell things, not to force your particular politics down my throat. Any entity that preaches at me loses my custom. Permanently.

Absolutely sickening.

pulled

Seriously they've gone in there and edited their document and think that makes it okay? How many households received Asda's email? How many schools have already used Diversity Role Models in their classes with those resources and the slogans love is love and love has no age? You can't quietly change something like that and hope it just goes away. Complete cowards, they should be asking everyone they emailed to delete and ignore that email because they failed to protect children from the insidious slow creep of paedophiles.

I sure hope the tabloids pick up on this and request a statement from someone senior at Asda.

The PDF file shows the dates the file was edited. The year 11 pack was edited today at around 12.42.

If the booklist was innocent why was the file edited to remove it? I've censored the authors name in this screenshot.

I hope someone sues them.

They need to totally remove this pack from their website. I can't believe any part of it is still up there.

As someone who works in a school I am deeply concerned about this issue. It does not only concern media and literature but clothing too.

Back in the 90s children actually looked like kids. They wore bright childish clothing that looked completely different to adult fashion. 13 year olds didn't look like they were 20.

Fast forward 20 or so years and children are increasingly looking and acting like mini adults. This is an agenda to sexulize our children.

Diversity and equality are extremely important and children should be educated about them in an age appropriate way. For primary school I don't think that needs to go beyond family makeups e.g Luca has a daddy and a daddy or Ava has a mummy and mummy etc. Or some boys and girls like to hold hands with the same sex and kiss each other. Not full blown Oral SEX FFS.

You as a corporation are not my moral superior. Don’t you dare try to lecture me whilst trying to take my money. Your remit is to sell things, not to force your particular politics down my throat.

This with knobs on. Needs to go into a mix of inspirational quotes of the day !

(In this particular case, of course, my objection is a thousand times more vehement.)

Why isn’t this in the papers yet?

What’s the bet they try to gaslight us all and say either “no they didn’t say that” and pointing to their edited stuff or “well no we didn’t mean it like that and it’s you that has twisted it”

Such a shame as I really like George clothing. It’s cheap and durable...but I will have to shop elsewhere