Which companies/organisations do you boycott for their misogyny since becoming GC?

[Estellesylvia]

Grazia magazine. Read it since launch. Have not bought it since they gave Paris Lees a platform saying Paris is a woman because Paris says so.

The Guardian, obviously.

Thinkx period pants and Lunapads for refusing to acknowledge women menstruate.

Ocado, for thinking the word woman is hate speech.

Someone tell me that Marmite isn't something that still needs boycotting???????

Please...I wouldn't survive without it. The cats Dreamies, men they prefer Felix goody bags anyway. But I can't live without marmite. I've tried its impossible.

Lush.
Oatly

Body Shop. Procter & Gamble, who make Tampax, Always, lots of haircare brands, Pampers, Olay and loads more brands.

Read somewhere on Mumsnet back in the summer that Dr Martins were supporting Mermaids. I didn’t check (should have really) but did decide not to buy my new boots from them. Article on the radio about Dr Martins drop in sales - I really hope those things are connected!

M&S for me. I used to by all my underwear (and I'm a bit of a lingerie fiend, so it was A LOT) from them. No more.

Lush. Oatly, Proctor and gamble. Modibodi.

What have ocado done? . I use them for all my groceries. I think I spend about 8k a year there.
Idiots.

Ocado used bullying tactics towards the billboard company who displayed the definition of Woman = adult human female. The billboard company withdrew the posters (cowards) and ocado reinstated their business with them. Bye bye Ocado

Checked Proctor & Gamble product list - thats annoying I’m going to have to find a new washing machine detergent that doesn’t irritate my skin but Tampax has seriously pissed me off.

Don’t suppose anyone can recommend an environmentally friendly washing detergent from a company that hasn’t sexualised tampons or acted like males are better at everything even explaining periods?

Can't boycott Ocado - doing so already over drivers' pay and something I learned in Waitrose. Mum of ex-pupil working for Ocado, and terrified of losing his job, having had two episodes of sickness. One more and he would be sacked. "American business principles," she said. Far from a principle in my book. But that event with the billboard tops that.

I’ve boycotted M&S since they first started allowing men into their changing rooms - 2017/2018-ish? - and I used to spend thousands in there a year. Added Primark boycott more recently.

Dropped the Guardian, although that was as much over their reporting on the Cologne NY rapes.

Cancelled membership to the Labour Party, now politically homeless.

Stopped using Always pads, and (TMI) as I’m suffering from near-constant menopause spotting which doesn’t stop no matter how often I threaten to identify as a non-menstruating non-binary faegender, that’s a lot of pads.

Boycotted Lush a long time ago over their immature student politics stance on several things.

Never used Ocado, Top Shop, Marmite or a few others on this list. Upped my consumption of Birds Eye potato waffles though.

Harrods- although it’s not that hard to do! Maybe went once twice a year at a push.
Im not going to support the homophobic Qatar wealth fund. And they employ a Non Binary / Trans Man Jude as a beauty brand ambassador. That person then goes into schools to preach the cult joy of non binary trans life. The hormones the surgeries etc. If that’s not Transing the Gay away I don’t know what is?

Obviously it’s fine for Trans and Non Binary to take money from Qatar where it’s illegal to be gay and lesbian. But don’t you dare point it out to they/them.

I emailed Lily’s Kitchen. I got a rapid response that, while they had partnered with Stonewall in 2018, they were no longer working with them. It wasn’t fulsome (no suggestion that they wouldn’t in the future for instance) but I think it was a positive response

Most companies are just lazy virtue signaling.
Starbucks for actively supporting Mermaids.
The Guardian for it's descent into the sewer after Cologne and the MP's expenses scandal (they were given the information but refused to publish it). Refusing to report what was happening in the gender debate and persecuting their own journalists that tried was the final straw.
I minimise my business with M&S and buy from alternate sources (come to think of it I haven't been there in 2 years so must be easy to find alternatives).

Have you tried Vegimite. I've taken to because it is less salty than marmite (good on health grounds) and the taste is very similar. It's basically Australian marmite. Give it a go.

Another way of rebelling against what is happening from within these institutionally captured companies is to sign and share this petition
to update the Equality Act to make clear that the characteristic “sex” is biological sex.

If 100,000 signatures can be gathered before the closing date in April, there is the chance of a Parliamentary debate about this.
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www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4668426-petition-update-the-equality-act-to-make-clear-the-characteristic-sex-is-biological-sex?page=1

Olay appear to have bought into the idea women want males to advertise face cream so adding them to my boycott list

Avoiding Proctor & Gamble products is proving more difficult than most as I used a lot.

We binned our Tesco credit cards over Mermaids support and stopped our main supermarket shopping with them. I don't use Lush or Starbucks now. Had already avoided Nestle for about 35 years because of the babymilk issues.

Oxfam, I find their stance strange because their field workers know what a woman, or at least a female, is. But that's another reason to want nothing to do with them.

The Guardian, Tampax, Lush, Shakespeare’s Globe.

Guardian, Modibodi, Always, Snag Tights, Lush, Wagamama, Tampax, any period product company that signs up to all this shit, Amnesty International and any charities that go in for this; the Labour Party.

I have brought Cravendale milk (tastes really good, and is filtered, so it lasts longer), ever since Arla Dairies refused to back down about advertising on Mumsnet.
I do my mums shopping too, so it's probably been 100s off pounds worth of purchases.

I've cancelled subscriptions to:
The Guardian (over the bullying of Suzanne Moore)
Oxfam (What's a woman again?)
NSPCC (Us: one of your staff members is wanking at work. Them: bigots)

I don't shop anymore at:
Lush (used to spend a fortune here, plus side haven't had thrush since I stopped using their stuff)
Body shop (for their pathetic trolling of JK Rowling)
Ocardo

The gender woo is everywhere though, from Sainsburys, to Boots, and M&S, to the banks, to the universities. I view them at such hypocritical tossers..... where were they all in the LGB rights struggle? Virtue signalling corporate hypocritics. I can't believe they are ignoring the medical scandal that is the transition of children.... because that's what they are supporting with their pink and blue flag waving.

The Guardian. Lush & Body Shop - and I loved some of their products :(. Oxfam. Old Vic & any other theatre/venue without good women's toilets. And I'll leave reviews flagging up anything i don't like on a first visit. My heart has sunk on seeing Shakespeare's Globe above.

Not boycotting, but I went to a big shopping centre recently and 'tested' John Lewis changing rooms; they had such brilliant women in charge I went with them. By contrast, I tried out the M&S changing rooms and the woman in charge made a point of saying "Choose whichever cubicle you feel comfortable in," which I took to be a line they'd been given to use and actually made me feel decidedly uneasy.

Oh, and BBC News and news websites.

Guardian, BBC (I was a regular on-line reader of both), M&S (Those sleazy knicker reviews put me off their brand), Lush. I have stayed away from Ocado, and use John Lewis a lot less. I have stayed away from Bravissimo, since a friend had an awkward experience having a bra fitted with two giggling men in the next cubicle.

And politically, having been pretty centrist I am boycotting LibDems, Greens and Labour.

Lush and Oxfam are the only high street retailers that I've had to actively boycott. Ocado doesn't cover my area, my nearest M&S is a long way away, Starbucks coffee is rank anyway, and I haven't bought clothes for a while. I was disappointed to have to stop buying yarn from Dye Candy, an otherwise very good independent dyer, over her support for Mermaids.

I ditched my Guardian subscription a while ago after one "pregnant people" too many. Didn't know about the Mercure issue before reading this thread, but I've blacklisted their parent company now.

They should all be very, very scared. Decades ago I boycotted Tie Rack and C&A for reasons I've now forgotten, and where are they now?