The Body Shop has fallen

[Cismyfatarse1]

Just seen this on Twitter.

For those who like their Ginger Shampoo, can I suggest MooGoo.

Also, Aveeno is a good replacement for their Shea butter.

Other thoughts welcome. Feel free to suggest other ideas.

Here's the tweet for anyone not on twitter.

@Mrsemcgregor

The reply I got from my complaint was a different tone. I didn’t get called a mensturator at least.

Heard and noted - YOU'RE ON THEIR LIST!!!

I contacted them via email on the site and no one has got back to me. My ears are still ringing from a very long chat with someone yesterday. I’ll dig out the highlights...

“Here is why we reached out to J.K. Rowling; we stand with ALL menstruators. People have periods – women, men and non-binary people. And plenty of women don’t.

It’s Pride month so we believe it is important we have these conversations now. We all need to educate ourselves, be inclusive and stand together. Together we can end the shame and stigma around periods for all menstruators. Let’s keep the conversation moving forwards, not backwards.“

The short version of my response...

“The reach out was BULLYING. It was intended to mock....How dare you insult 51% of the population...I am not a menstruator (several times)...maybe YOU need educated on this?... do you know that the UN estimates that there are 126 MILLION women missing... and don’t lecture me on Pride - I was going to these before you were born (I assume you are in your 20s)...

God I was very irritated.

They could have said sorry. They could have held their hands up and said we got this wrong, we apologise for the offence caused, we're sorry we reduced you to menstruators but they didn't. They dug themselves in deeper.

They proved what an awful, disrespectful company they are. They don't see that they've treated their core market with contempt. They've dehumanised us.

I know people who sell Body Shop. I would hate for them to lose income because of this but I won't be buying their products ever again.

This is Body Shop's Ratner moment. I hope the woke cookie are worth it.

They won’t apologise but I’m amazed they said anything (unlike Audible who have gone for the ‘say nothing’ approach.

Body shop can just get lost.

@YourVagesty

I was just looking at the comments underneath one of their new postings. twitter.com/TheBodyShop/status/1272527550959489027

Take a look, it makes for great reading.

It's not going away Body Shop!

Oh wow 😳

It's really not going well for them, enter the 'influencers' to push their latest products. It's so predictable it's boring.

I’ve updated this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3939793-Reply-from-the-Body-Shop-re-JKR-just-so-dreadful?msgid=97528261

Body Shop has sent out comms to their consultants re THAT tweet. Still not going well. So sad.

Thanks @ItsLateHumpty ;)

The thing they forget, well, two things -

Women are 51% of the population, trans are 1%.

The customer is always right.

We are many, they are few.

Well they have managed to train the chicken to press the ‘delete account’ button but no conformation of my GDPR request from the Body Shit.

They are very good aren’t they 🙄

I've now had an email from them asking for my DoB to action my deletion request.

Finally.

Perhaps the body shop and lush could run off into the sunset together and make trans bath bombs?

So many retailers not expected to survive this crisis, they should tread very carefully.

@acatcalledjohn

I've now had an email from them asking for my DoB to action my deletion request.

Finally.

They only wanted my name and email - they did ask for my son but I told them to bugger off as I didn’t trust giving them any more details that absolutely necessary as they seemed to be run by people with a very scant understanding of GDPR and compliance (let alone marketing).

The thread about superdrug was interesting a mum clocking the wording on pads being for persons who menstruate. super drug is owned by the same parent company as body shop and avon.

Really? That’s news - thank you!

Sorry super drug is chinese owned. Done so much googling going batty with this wandering into rabbit holes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.S._Watson_Group#Perfume_and_cosmetics

Everyone seen the petition to ask them to stop calling women menstruators?

@SerenityNowwwww

Everyone seen the petition to ask them to stop calling women menstruators?

No, do you have a link please?

*@MrsKingfisher * www.change.org/p/bodyshop-don-t-call-us-menstruators

(Sorry I thought we couldn’t post petition links - I got deleted for doing that a while back)

SerenityNowwwww I'll report my post, have sent PM to Kingfisher.

Maybe it’s change now since there is a petition section now - this was when a case was going through court and there was a fundraiser. I’ve already been on the naughty step so a bit cautious!