AIBU to think a soap shop shouldn't be encouraging young girls to self harm?

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Lush Paddington are giving out binders, meaning girls can self harm without any danger of their parents knowing and being able to discuss potential issues with them.

www.instagram.com/lushpaddington/

AIBU to think young girls shouldn't be groomed to hate their bodies?

@PAFMO

There's a long thread about this is Feminism.

Sure, just thought parents in general would like to be aware that their daughters will encounter more than bath bombs on a shopping trip these days

It might be badged as just a “collection point” but I think it’s still really overstepping the mark.

@MorganKitten

It’s not self harm

Yes, it is

Marketing stuff, thought up by brainless idiot people..

I hope it fucks up their Christmas sales enough to cost them dearly.

Fucking hell. That's insane. Who the hell do they think they are to overstep so massively?? They are a bloody shop. Not medically qualified, no idea of the backgrounds or history or mental health conditions of any of the girls they're blithely encouraging to secretly mutilate their bodies without their parents knowledge. I would unleash hell on any shop assistant aiding my child in mutilating their growing body. It's a safeguarding nightmare.

I saw a post recently from a girl who binds whose nipple is falling off , presumably from restricted blood supply. It’s appalling that Lush are encouraging it - it should be illegal

That honestly is horrendous. I’ll be boycotting Lush from now on. Not that’ they’ll care.

Isn't it great that children can go akd discuss their breasts with strangers who have no background In anatomy, physiology, child growth and development etc in a shop on the High Street behind parebts backs.

What could possibly go wrong

I see that the organisation concerned have deleted their tweet. Why do the people who voted ‘YABU’ think that might be?

Their shops stink...and so does their attitude to female bodies.

There was Nothing but outage at the shop filmed piercing the ears if a distressed child.

As far as harm to the body goes a lobe piercing is pretty mild. But still there's nore outrage at chikd ear piercing than something which can cause life long deformities

JFC.

That's appalling.

I had to wear a corset type garment after surgery this year, and I didn't know what I was doing. Wore it all day, day 1.

Couldn't lay on my side and barely do my jeans up - resorted to leggings, for a week. Because it had made me so tender on my hips I couldn't bare anything on it.

I'm a 32 year old woman who is degree educated FFS. And if was only because I was moaning to my surgeon after that I realised I massively misunderstood.

What a damaging, dangerous, risk.

And we used to be appalled by China binding women's feet. This is so wrong.

I am never buying anything from Lush again.

What a bunch of ignoranuses.

@UndertonesOfCake

It's better they have access to safer binders rather than resorting to DIY methods. These kids will find a way to bind one way or another.

Do you also object to teenagers being given access to condoms?

This isn’t like supplying condoms.

It’s more on par with supplying clean razor blades since they are going to cut anyway.

This is awful.

As a mother of a young impressionable girl I am horrified at this.

Even if there's no long term damage, encouraging this kind of bollox even briefly will hinder girls partaking in exercise and thus deny them a healthy relationship with their bodies.

I have just commented on their instagram, can we all do this please?

Lush has become an utter joke in recent years. I used to love it, spent a fortune in there, had a bathroom full of dinky black pots...but not now. I hope the company vanishes up its own silly right-on non-binary arse!

As soon as I read the title I just knew that it would involve Lush.

Just when you thought Lush couldn't get any more woke and crazy....

Anyway. I used to love Lush shampoo bars. Gruum is a much better alternative.

Jeez wonder what their lawyers think about this. Almost 100% of binder wearers report negative health effects from using binders.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/07/groundbreaking-study-shows-health-effects-of-binding-among-trans-people/

@UndertonesOfCake

It's better they have access to safer binders rather than resorting to DIY methods. These kids will find a way to bind one way or another.

Do you also object to teenagers being given access to condoms?

Condoms come packaged with a UK kitemark, a use-by date and an instructions leaflet. You can compare the latest data on the efficacy of barrier contraception methods in medical journals and discuss in depth with qualified healthcare professionals (in confidence).

Please explain how minimum wage retail staff (no healthcare qualification, no DBS check) should be involved in the secret provision of potentially damaging products?