Page 4 | B&Q think ‘girls’ cant do stuff

Ifpicklesweretickles · 27/05/2025 13:08

This is group think, the detriment that sheep thinking can cause. It would have gone through several layers of colleagues and then management and nobody called it out.

Olog · 27/05/2025 13:19

Ifpicklesweretickles · 27/05/2025 13:08

This is group think, the detriment that sheep thinking can cause. It would have gone through several layers of colleagues and then management and nobody called it out.

it won’t have gone through management at b&q, it’s the third party market place.

TUCKINGFYP0 · 27/05/2025 13:23

You seem very invested in this @Coralleadery , especially for someone who joined Mumsnet today.

Do you work for the marketing department of a competitor of B&Q?

Or for one of the tabloids and you are trying whip up a frenzy for your next article?

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 27/05/2025 13:31

JasmineAllen · 27/05/2025 11:51

Me neither. The ridiculous 'not for girls' sales campaign is still the first thing I think of if I see a Yorkie bar.

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The fact that they are the worst, most disgusting excuse that passes for chocolate is my first thought.

Then I remember the "not for girls" crap their adverts used to spout and hate them even more.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 13:34

What a stupid and archaic thing to put. FFS, my DD built most of the flat pack furniture when she and her DP first moved in together, and she assembled the hoover, and put up several shelves. Poor form B &Q. Poor form. I bet a man did this. (Of course it was a man!) 🙄

SerendipityJane · 27/05/2025 13:36

Coralleadery · 27/05/2025 11:29

B&Q have listed a flatpack cabinet with the description ‘easy to assemble, even for a girl’

At the same time they’re running a big ‘purpose’ advertising campaign around encouraging female tradespeople.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14752363/amp/B-Q-apologises-bathroom-cabinet-easy-girl.html

Apologies for the DM link - I couldn’t see a better one (The Sun?!)

Clearly they've not seen the latest episode of Clarksons Farm ....

LoveFridaynight · 27/05/2025 13:38

CatamaranViper · 27/05/2025 11:43

It was a third party seller but B&Q still added it to their website. Regardless of who wrote it, the company is responsible for what is published on their website. Someone saw that and didn't do or say anything.

That's what I was thinking. B&Q still agreed to sell it and surely they are supposed to check the advertising. So part of the blame has to lie with them.
Personally I don't get wound up about things like this though so don't really care either way

JustMyView13 · 27/05/2025 13:39

Hwi · 27/05/2025 13:02

I think that the poster meant just women?

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I did! I didn’t realise I was stepping on an official term 🤣🫠

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 13:47

Hwi · 27/05/2025 13:08

Why don't we instead do an en-masse complaint to our mothers (strong independent women) who did not bring us up to be great chess players so we could challenge male great masters to a game (like in Netflix Chess queen or whatever it was called) and show them once and for all, that women are just the same as men intellectually! Forget about stupid flat packs and heavy lifting and boxing! Show it where it matters!

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Blaming the mothers....

Oh dear.

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 27/05/2025 13:55

Dontlletmedownbruce · 27/05/2025 12:58

This puts me off B&Q more than the girl comment. If they can't be bothered to even know their own products then they are doing nothing to ensure quality.

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You think B&Q has ever been particularly bothered about the quality of the products it sells? Oh my sweet summer child...

CatamaranViper · 27/05/2025 14:01

PorgyandBess · 27/05/2025 13:03

I can’t imagine getting frothy over this, especially as they have apologised and taken action.

I’m a girl that can’t do DIY, tbf.

Frothy? Smh

ErrolTheDragon · 27/05/2025 14:03

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 13:47

Blaming the mothers....

Oh dear.

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It’s also a bit of a strange attitude to apparently only value women who make it to a niche pinnacles of success (if prowess in playing a game should be considered such). Much better, imo, to have role models across a broad range of roles.

feelingbleh · 27/05/2025 14:05

My god people are so over sensitive now nobody acted like this over yorkies

ApartFromAllThat · 27/05/2025 14:07

Coralleadery · 27/05/2025 12:14

So, it’s ‘nothing to do’ with companies what they have on their site? I seem to remember people being fairly pissed off with MN when child abuse images were posted. By your reasoning it’s totally fine as long as they’re removed when pointed out

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Nothing 'micro' about your aggression comparing a bit of out of date humour with SA pics.

YouWillFindMeInTheGarden · 27/05/2025 14:08

Hoppinggreen · 27/05/2025 11:44

Thankfully B&Q realised, pulled the item and apologised.
No harm done

That’s the right reaction!

KrisAkabusi · 27/05/2025 14:09

LoveFridaynight · 27/05/2025 13:38

That's what I was thinking. B&Q still agreed to sell it and surely they are supposed to check the advertising. So part of the blame has to lie with them.
Personally I don't get wound up about things like this though so don't really care either way

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No, that's not how it works. Merchants apply to sell on the platform. Once they are approved, they run everything themselves. B&Q are not involved. How could they be? There are literally millions of products on sale. It would require hundreds more staff to check every single product. One offensive ad was found. B&Q removed it as soon as it was pointed out to them. I really don't see why this makes it time to bring out the flaming pitchforks.

greatyak · 27/05/2025 14:15

GreyCarpet · 27/05/2025 11:33

Well, they've just lost my custom.

And I have a long memory. I haven't had a Yorkie bar since Nestlé announced they weren't for girls 😁

Why? It wasn’t B&Q it was ax3rd party seller. They removed it immediately and apologised. They are mad as hell about it.

do you always shoot from the hip and react without reading all relevant info?

greatyak · 27/05/2025 14:20

Hwi · 27/05/2025 12:47

I sincerely hope our girls won't go into trades, I dread the idea. First, it is not where real power lies, secondly, uterine prolapses, hernias and the rest. I agree with your about stem subjects, but unfortunately, the only girls (now women) who performed well in this country due to studying stems - like the only successful commercial architect, the first female brain surgeon, etc. they all came from repressive-dictatorial families, i.e. were pushed by parents' pressure. I wish we could have more role models like that, real ones, only with the normal non-dictatorial families, purely through normal (not private) schooling. I wish we could have one half-decent female chess player who could compete with men in chess - after all, we are told we are the same, aren't we?

I also wish women can leave all the B&Q, trades, and other 'shovel-heavy shit' type jobs deflections alone and concentrate on gaining access to real power - i.e. architects, lawyers, doctors, chemists, physicists. I did not include engineering (real one, not fixing electric mains) meaning materials engineering, civil engineering, etc. because unfortunately we underperform in those disciplines as well, despite massive leg up by all educational establishments.

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Wow. So you sneeringly look down upon trades obviously 🙄

tradespeople can be extremely highly skilled and can earn very good money. Pity there are still dinosaurs like you around who look down on them like they are second class citizens

feelingbleh · 27/05/2025 14:22

Well have a good day everyone i need some paint so just going to nip to b&q and might grab a yorkie on the way.

Coffeeishot · 27/05/2025 14:33

@Hwi do you often spout such drivel ? I wish your girls well and hope they grow up to be painters And decorators !

ErrolTheDragon · 27/05/2025 14:35

greatyak · 27/05/2025 14:20

Wow. So you sneeringly look down upon trades obviously 🙄

tradespeople can be extremely highly skilled and can earn very good money. Pity there are still dinosaurs like you around who look down on them like they are second class citizens

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And also apparently looking down on engineering…there’s good jobs in that even if the U.K. isn’t a world leader, there’s a lot has to be done locally - civils onviously but other things too. Comes across as oddly ultra elitist.
You know what? Equality means that if a girl of middling aptitude should be as free in her choice of jobs as a middling boy, and that may include very necessary, decently paying trades.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 15:01

feelingbleh · 27/05/2025 14:05

My god people are so over sensitive now nobody acted like this over yorkies

Yes they did. That's why the ad was taken down nearly 15 years ago. Even so, 'Yorkies are not for girls' is nowhere near as insulting as an ad suggesting women can't do anything practical, or any DIY, and have to depend on the menz to do it. Like my DD, I do more DIY jobs than DH, and I do ALL of the gardening. AND I take the bins out all the time. I know, shocking right!

People are entitled to be pissed off about this, even if the poster @feelingbleh thinks they are 'so over sensitive.' You don't get to dictate to people how they should feel.

HTH.

Also, I think Yorkies are minging personally.

TriesNotToBeCynical · 27/05/2025 15:03

Sherararara · 27/05/2025 12:24

Tbf, there are quite regular posts on my local fb groups from women asking for help assembling furniture as they don’t feel competent to do it properly & safely.

Whereas the men just got on and did it; incompetently and unsafely. You have discovered a true sex difference in willingness to ask for help.

feelingbleh · 27/05/2025 15:06

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 15:01

Yes they did. That's why the ad was taken down nearly 15 years ago. Even so, 'Yorkies are not for girls' is nowhere near as insulting as an ad suggesting women can't do anything practical, or any DIY, and have to depend on the menz to do it. Like my DD, I do more DIY jobs than DH, and I do ALL of the gardening. AND I take the bins out all the time. I know, shocking right!

People are entitled to be pissed off about this, even if the poster @feelingbleh thinks they are 'so over sensitive.' You don't get to dictate to people how they should feel.

HTH.

Also, I think Yorkies are minging personally.

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Sorry can't talk im in b&q eating a yorkie

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/05/2025 15:10

feelingbleh · 27/05/2025 15:06

Sorry can't talk im in b&q eating a yorkie

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😆

But, but aren't you a GIRL?! 😂