Why are people boycotting Boots? Are you?

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For full disclosure I haven't seen the advert yet, but I'll probably end up searching for it if I don't come across it naturally during viewing in the next few days.

I've seen the #boycottboots and have worked out it's to do with their new Christmas ad. What's the issue? Are you boycotting Boots or do you think people are overreacting?

Randomly choosing the poll options simply because as stated I've not seen the ad so I don't currently have an opinion either way

YABU I'm boycotting
YANBU it's an overreaction

Boots stores just look run down and tired- I googled the ad {Don't watch TV} and it seems pretty inoffensive to me.

They are racist. Take a look on Twitter, it's pretty bad - but then those moaners are never happy about anything.

I use my local independent - small, friendly, clean, orders in stuff for you and all round a nice place to visit.

The number 1 reason I hate boots is the “3 for 2 offer” …. And there’s only 2 left on the shelf !!!!

Why is it obvious that the royal family is 'TOO white'. The English royal family is white
It's like me saying the Ghanan royal family is TOO black. It's offensive

Is it because the woman starring in it made the remark about the royal balcony looking 'too white'?

The actress is mixed race British, born in Bristol. The royal family in question is the royal family of her own country.

So totally different from a white British actor commenting on the royal family of a country to which she has no ties by birth, nationality or residence.

These concepts are not terribly difficult.

Just watched it. I'm offended by the message that women do it all behind the scenes and that's somehow a little bit funny. So hard working women behind the scenes come along to boots it's got gifts to make the shopping easier? It's not funny. If we are going to reference that inequality it shouldn't be accepting it with laughter.

Little offended by the men dressed as women but they dont actually say they are women so can't say it's wrong. Men can wear clothes typically used y women I have no problem with that. My problem is them saying they are women and taking our language and safe space. That doesn't happen here.

I have no problem with her being black. I think she's an awesome actress. Had I not seen comments here about her being black as the problem I would not have considered it. People are rasist though, just because I'm not doesn't mean some of those offended are offended because of someone's colour

Did anyone actually say "too white"? Can you provide a source?

You seem to be getting quite worked up about language that doesn't seem to have actually happened.

But dealing with the rest of your post - was one of your parents Ghanaian? Were you born there?

I believe the exact phrase she used was 'terribly white' when referring to the balcony waving directly following the Kings coronation. It's a huge event where many people felt some sort of bizarre connection to the monarchy
I'm not particularly pro monarchy but it actually did watch her saying that.
I think it's offensive to recognise the colour of any family aa 'terribly xyz' whatever the colour is - it was also highly irrelevant

Oh and BTW I'm not at all worked up so how you got that from my post is beyond me! Couldn't really care less if people agree with me or not just an interesting conversation about how it's OK to be racist one way but not the other.
Like ol' stormzy who isn't anti white he's pro black, I'm not anti black I'm pro white! 🙄

I don't have a TV so miss out on the Christmas ad commentary every year.

No, no.

I hate racism. I have a mixed race family and I feel very strongly about the subject.

However, I’ll call out racism wherever I see it. This woman intimated that the Royal family being all white was not a good thing. I believe she said ‘terribly white’. In that interview she came across as racist, and I won’t tolerate racism from anyone. So I resent you saying that she was simply pointing out something completely benign.

I don’t give two hoots what colour skin you have. But, saying something racist is saying something racist.

On the other hand, she had the good grace to apologise, so from my point of view, that’s it. Let’s get on with our lives. No need for permanent cancellation, that’s equally abhorrent. The matter has been resolved.

As for the advert, I’m absolutely fine with it and won’t be boycotting Boots.

I don’t like modern drag, although I loved Lily Savage and Dame Edna Everidge but I can’t see why someone would not buy from a company just because it’s in an advert.

To be fair I haven’t seen the advert though, saying that I really want to get some Ted Baker body mist and Sanctuary body wash from there so perhaps I’ll stay in blissful ignorance.

This is simply not true. Read the extract above as I can't be arsed to repeat it. You have to take the whole conversation to get the right context.

I just looked it up thinking I hadn’t seen it yet but I actually had, so that shows how much of an impression it made on me. The only thing I noticed about it when I first saw it was that it’s a bit crap and neither put me in a festive mood nor made me interested in buying anything from boots, but I certainly wouldn’t boycott them over it. The main woman in it looks awkward and out of place and the whole thing has that vibe of trying to convey way more than they need to, a bit like the virgin airlines ad.

We are all talking about the rights and wrongs of the advert but everyone is missing a huge point.

What the feck are we normalising Christmas adverts on tv and it's not even the middle of November yet. The materialistic grabby nature of these companies using psychological trickery ( ie adverts) is appalling.

They'll do anything to bleed the consumer dry and it seems the sooner they can start this process - the better.

I hadn't heard about the boycott and hadn't seen the advert.
But having seen this thread I just had a look at it . It's a bog standard boring, meaningless advert as far as I'm concerned. I don't get the point of it and it certainly doesn't make me want to shop at Boots.

I was actually quite disturbed by an advert I saw last week though.
selling jewellery because the women in it were all absolutely skeleton thin. I found it really upsetting. And since then I've heard that once again the fashion houses are reverting to using very small sized models on the catwalk. I think that is so disappointing and worrying.

You're quite entitled to be offended by whatever you wish. I'm quite curious why you misquoted her, if not to manufacture outrage, and also a little curious why you drew an analogy that, if it is to be actually analogous, casts her as non-British and not commenting on the royal family of her own country.

Unless of course you have a Ghanaian parent and were born there, in which case it's a fair analogy.

Otherwise, only focusing on the foreign and/or dark-skinned part of someone's heritage and discounting both where they were born, their nationality and the rest of their heritage is also quite offensive to many people.

Is that really what you think?
Considering most adverts have black people (even-shock-black women)in them, are you puzzled as to why they aren't been boycotted.
Do you think there might be another reason?

Do you think that a chemist that mostly sells to women might be shooting themselves in the foot by suggesting that women can now fuck off-their core audience is drag queens and transgenders.

Maybe they're right though-maybe most women don't realise or care that it is yet another step against them.

Maybe next year, their Christmas ad can be a bunch of turkeys voting for Christmas.

I don't think that can be it. Because she didn't say it.🤷‍♀️

The Boots advert is boring drivel. It doesn't make me want to buy anything. It's style over content and the style is tedious.

Nrtft, but I wish people would boycott according to whether companies pay staff well, treat them.properly, pay taxes and so on, rather than the people who star in their adverts.

It also strikes me that a great many folks who are 'boycotting' boots have probably never stepped foot in one.

Give Boots The Boot

The boycott is evidence of the 'tolerant Britain' that racists and their liberal enablers love telling us about.