Tesco has fallen

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As part of their support for Pride, £80,000 is being donated to Mermaids.

Mimmymummy is overjoyed.

www.tescoplc.com/news/2020/tesco-donates-almost-250-000-to-mark-pride-festival/

The link I posted above (Jo Bartosch for Spiked today!) lays it all out pretty clearly.

These new rules have made it really difficult to dip into FWR. Is there a list anywhere?

Some of the forbidden terms are listed in this pinned post on FWR. But "p*k t*s" isn't on there. Neither is "gr*ming" which also appears to be banned when we are discussing transactivism

www.mumsnet.com/info/trans-rights-moderation-policy

I really can't keep up. Can someone please provide a list of shops where I can now shop without supporting Mermaids and the like?

Thanks @DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong

When most kids get to teenager years where thing their parents have ever said and done had been wrong (the Philip Larkin rule). Who is going to support these kids when they get to this stage? This isn’t ‘you didn’t take me to Disneyland’ or is hate my name’ is it?

Pink trains?

Plop tops?

I've emailed the CEO and will report back when they reply.
Have Sainsbury's fallen too? We have a priority delivery slot with them, so would be difficult to boycott.

I’ve also emailed the ceo - as a doctor as well as customer, pointing out a) the medical concerns re permanent damage to children’s health and future fertility by the “treatment” Mermaids is pushing, and
b) the folly of associating the Tesco brand with such damage.

One can only hope that the threat of a boycott and the associated bad publicity may give him pause for thought. It was a stupid decision really, when his core demographic is mothers of families, not woke activists.

The CEO needs to take a look at twitter and ask if woman-hating bottom feeders are his target demographic.

Women just talking really pisses of sad little men like Owain, doesn't it? Bet he gets a tiny hate boner posting about us.

Women won't submit, Owain. Get over it.

There's a mother of a trans girl Emily who says Emma Nicholson has targeted her and said shes a predator. Is there any truth to this ? Or was it a generic reference to predators which the mother has chosen to take personally?

The latter, it was a general comment but in response to her, I think.

I'm currently googling to try and find articles to email the CEO. If anyone has any, please do post them.

Let me know if these share tokens don't work @JKRismyhero

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/14a1a49a-afb6-11e9-b657-11944f524f2a?shareToken=0996dfbb7703d557198d90dab32b8c3e

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f3881e90-d726-11e9-b098-ed106f659f8a?shareToken=a99be04ff6d0bb2e5184bc47207ab169

Giving puberty blocker to ‘trans’ children is a leap into the unknown

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3a32fa8e-54c9-11ea-b4ee-385bb4c8d255?shareToken=f17e44f28a37118f2223a866cd9b279d

I’ve had an acknowledgement of my email to the ceo saying they are receiving a lot and reply may take a while. I hope all the rest of the mail is on the same subject - they may belatedly realise that pissing off their core customers is a pretty damn stupid business model.

Thank you very much. I have just sent my email. Along with these examples too

www.forbes.com/sites/julianvigo/2018/12/27/pseudo-scientific-hokum-and-the-experimentation-on-childrens-bodies/

www.transgendertrend.com/analysis-mermaids-press-statement/

Families ‘exploited by gender lobby groups pushing for treatment’

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/124de9ce-5980-11e9-b371-613f81256d20?shareToken=87d3c435cf5cb8418017fc608669800a

Tavistock trans clinic fears damage to children as activists harass staff

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b35c7876-322f-11e9-88d5-03e8c292b702?shareToken=bbe0f6b501a54b68c3f429c845f1fa14

Training guide ‘pushed GPs to endorse gender swaps’

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4566fa08-2726-11e9-9ff0-49a5245b8995?shareToken=86361feff11c910cd09a51d97dd48be9

Supermarkets should stick to supporting their staff in ensuring equal treatment etc and if they want to be charitable then donating to food related charities.

Of all the 'causes' to support?! Yeah forget about people going hungry, in abusive domestic environments, homeless etc.

@MessyBess

Fuck. This is the one time boycotting would truly affect me. We are on their priority list for deliveries, we can’t leave so need to. I know what we like as have used them for years. They even automatically stopped charging me a delivery fee because slots weren’t guaranteed. I find it gross they’ve done this but I can’t boycott this one.

Boycott: 1 withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

Can you say your boycotting something if you don't use it anyway? Really I think a boycott is always going to be hard. It's interesting that a lot less people have commented on this thread than the body shop one. It's not that hard to boycott and be vocal about it when you hardly use a shop...

It will be interesting to see what the CEO says.

Messybess: That wasn't aimed at you in a nasty way, was just reflecting on the ease of a boycott when you don't use or shop somewhere! 😊

@Beerincomechampagnetastes

Owain. A very sad individual who hangs out on mumsnet hoping for screenshots to make his twitter feed relevant. It doesn’t.

In fairness, any individual who does that is very sad.

"Dear diary, today I screenshotted a comment from mumsnet and got 1 like. Who knew I had that many friends?"

Every time I see nonsense like this - a huge corporation donating to a highly controversal organisation (and one run primarily by fairly socially conservative straight people) that promotes gay conversion therapy, in the name of, er, celebrating Pride - it makes me despair for the lack of really basic research into this that these corporations must be doing.

Skyliner001 You’re grand. A few of the places I have actually stopped using, I may not have used them often but I did use them now I wouldn’t at all. I just can’t boycott tesco, they are reliable, they know about the health needs in my home and have been great with making sure we have slots etc and I know roughly how much most things are etc and I’ve been using them every single week for about five years now (deliveries) and used to shop in store even before then. It sucks that they’ve donated so much to a charity I trusty dislike but I’m just going to have to deal with that because it’s one place I can’t stop using unfortunately. At least not during the pandemic. Any other supermarkets that deliver that aren’t supporting mermaids and the like? I can try and switch over at some point but at this moment in time I’m sticking with tesco. Also just recently got pet insurance with them fs.

Meant truly not trusty.