An insurance company now wishes to lecture us

[JustHereWithMyPopcorn]

Aviva shared these lovely tweets today. I am actually insured with them but I will not be renewing. And they are not bothered by customers leaving, clearly.

@mement0mori - no problem. I was probably a bit sensitive, but insurance companies are sometimes an easy target to be treated as the "bad guys", when honestly most of us working in them are trying to do a good job, actually want to keep our customers happy, and do take seriously the need to treat customers fairly (not just because the regulator tells us too!). That said, I'm not defending the employee at Aviva producing these tweets!

I totally understand Dad my post was badly worded.

Sent this.

Hello

I am writing to let you know that i will not be considering Aviva UK for my home, car and life insurance renewals totalling £3500 in January due to the shocking misogynistic tweets your organisation has been sending out over the last 24 hours.

I am disgusted that not only are you colluding with a homophobic hate group (Stonewall) to eliminate women from their own sports, but you are also publicly showing support for extreme fetishes on your live feed. (An Autogynephile becomes aroused by pretending to be a woman - this is NOT a trans person - this is an extreme fetish which many straight men are now indulging in to gain access to women's spaces).

Your lack of knowledge of this highly sensitive area which you have waded into so willingly is absolutely shameful.

Need I remind you you are an INSURANCE company and you have absolutely NO business in campaigning against 50% of the population to remove the rights women have fought and died for for millennia.

Mark my words, without a public apology on your twitter feed i will share far and wide with supportive friends and family your attitude to women and girls. Flora found out the hard way what happens when you side with an tiny oppressive minority against women.

Oh! Don't know what to say really.

Well well!

I’m going to save that letter for later.

So the children got all excited and carried away. I how they are now being helped with their thinking and their keyboards have been removed from their desks.

Aviva - your name is on the list...

Come on then, Aviva - let's see the laces for disabled people inclusion in sports.

Or are you just going the whole hog, and demanding the inclusion of able-bodied people in the paralympics, just as you are all for biological males in women's sports?

Anyone else getting lots of More Than insurance ads on here now?

A company can choose to support who ever they like . You're obviously not the audience they want to get business from so move it.

Great email Snorkers, well done.

Companies support who they think their customers will like. They are the ones who have miscalled their audience.

An ad not hitting the target audience is like using Jazz in ads when they know their customer base are classical music lovers (although Chanel did use Jazz in their ads yonks ago to scare away the customers that they deemed 'undesirable' and damaging to the brand).

The company sells insurance and policies and has no need to jump the rainbow, especially when they realise that itis a hot issue. I suspect they have had training in a bid to get onboard younger policyholders who will need to have home/car insurance, pensions, life assurance etc (thereby hopefully getting a lifetime of custom).

They didn't think that they would piss a lot of people off - and these people are generally those who are household purse-string holders, who are also often responsible for getting car insurance for little Timmy when he passes his driving test.

You could almost forgive them for enthusiasm and not understanding the problem to women’s sport, but to be all over Fetish’s with same Zeal that’s not accidental, it almost has to be a wide up. But it’s not

Gosh that's a diverse staff 'man'-ning their Twitter.

You don't have to have a beard to work here. But it helps if you do.

OMG. That 'sorry we are drunk in charge of the tweets' is amazing.

Ooh my.

"A heavy night" eh, Aviva. FFS, read the room

I'm lost for words. Either support Katie, or apologise for her but to say she had a heavy night? I mean wtaf?

@theflushedzebra that's an interesting and diverse picture-I'm sure that reflects Britain in 2019.

Astounding. It’s a shame their AGM isn’t until May. I may just buy a share and go along to ask the board this.

I’m quite serious by the way, buy a share or get a proxy form signed by someone who has one and you can go and ask the board questions at the AGM of any listed company. It is a great way to get issues straight to the top.

Miss Marple - 100% white, 70% male. All young. Many beards.

How unexpected!

They have posted a link to their stats. If anyone wants a look.

I only scanned it briefly so could be very wrong, but it looks like most of it is based on those (non)hate crime records.