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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Lush Edinburgh say they wouldn't serve anyone in "woman" T-shirt

388 replies

Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 03/08/2020 19:55

Apparently some stickers found their way onto the Lush Edinburgh storefront causing horror and consternation on Princes St this morning. They are too awful to be shared, obviously, but clearly they carried some message of hateful bigotry - or biological fact as it used to be known.

Anyway, staff on the thread are letting it be known that anyone wearing a T-shirt carrying the dictionary definition of a woman would not be served - haven't seen a comment on what would happen if it said 'I ❤️ JKR'. Not sure how legal that is.

www.facebook.com/116815671689234/posts/3431297510241017/

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Lordamighty · 04/08/2020 20:43

I can’t find the post by Rhona Hotchkiss now either, what a dreadful company Lush are. Some of the lies about the sticker are readily being shared though.

MrsJamin · 04/08/2020 20:50

Yeah rhonas post has gone. At least there's a screenshot of it above.

SerenityNowwwww · 04/08/2020 20:51

@PhoebeSnow

The Facebook has definitely gone, hope someone managed to get screenshots of it. Lush can fuck off along with The Body Shop! They have proved beyond any doubt that they are idiots. I have asked my male cousin and his partner to please buy two shirts ( do they come in large sizes to fit two 6 ft rugby player types?) and wear them to the Edinburgh shop on Princes Street, let’s see how the staff deal with two large GC gay men!
Oh please please please please! I’d buy them a pint if they will!
EmpressJKRowlingSpartacus · 04/08/2020 20:54

twitter.com/noxyinxxprisons/status/1290580119753564160?s=21

Keep Prisons Single Sex are talking about printing T-shirts with their slogan & asking Lush if they’d refuse service to people wearing them. No response yet....

Thisismytimetoshine · 04/08/2020 20:55

They'll never have to buy their own pints again if they will! I'll start the kitty 😊

SerenityNowwwww · 04/08/2020 21:03

In fact, I’d buy a T-shirt with a picture of them on it wearing their T-shirt’s outside said Lush branch...

MrsJamin · 04/08/2020 21:15

People are kicking off on twitter saying that photo with the sticker isn't in Edinburgh as the colours of the shops don't match. Are we absolutely sure that that's what the sticker said?

SerenityNowwwww · 04/08/2020 21:17

The store can’t being themselves to repeat the ‘attacks’. Which means they are complete melts or know it’s a load of crap.

Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 04/08/2020 21:40

The Edinburgh Live article is appalling!

Also, there were a darn sight more than 10 people at the FWS meeting!

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RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 04/08/2020 22:37

@SerenityNowwwww

The store can’t being themselves to repeat the ‘attacks’. Which means they are complete melts or know it’s a load of crap.
Im going crap
RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 04/08/2020 22:38

I could’ve worded that better

FemaleAndLearning · 04/08/2020 22:40

I interacted with the Lush
Edinburgh Facebook post a lot today and I can't see any of it now, all my notifications have gone too.
I was told to fuck off TERF and called narrow minded among other things. I displayed no such hostility.
I did manage to link to Standing for Women's sticker page and the terf is a slur website.
It really is pointless trying to converse with people of this ideology as they just end up being abusive every single time, but I couldn't help myself today!

NiceGerbil · 04/08/2020 22:49

Re the police/ hunt sabs/ trans things

Why are they taking stances on highly contraversial political and social issues which are unrelated to their product?

Ok hunt sabs maybe isn't but it's a very contraversial area and links into a whole load of other deep stuff, how you feel about govt, society, the police, etc etc.

Posts on here on these things would run into a thousand posts and max out. They are multifaceted and really need careful navigation. They are aspects of a whole load of other really important deep questions like, do you trust the 'authorities'? Etc etc. I won't go on.

They aren't well served on Twitter.

Why the fuck are they doing one sign in a window in a soap shop?

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My guess is that the owners know their brand is trusted and used by young people who are still impressionable. And they will connect those messages with 'good'.

So actually, whether you agree with whatever they say or not. It's propoganda aimed at the young.

Just thought of that and it's not great, is it.

MrsJamin · 04/08/2020 22:52

I hope someone followed your links before the post was taken down, @femaleandlearning. I always worry that the post will appear in friends' feeds as something I've interacted with (have a gazillion woke friends Hmm) so end up just liking comments and replies to comments as I don't think this appears in your friends' feeds. I know I need to be braver but I'd prefer to have conversations with friends in person about this stuff rather than online- otherwise it's a very public disagreement.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/08/2020 23:15

I love that everyone calls it a "soap shop". I bet the marketing team wax lyrical endlessly about "brand purpose", but at the end of the day it is just a wanky soap shop that needs to get over itself.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/08/2020 23:52

@Ereshkigalangcleg

I love that everyone calls it a "soap shop". I bet the marketing team wax lyrical endlessly about "brand purpose", but at the end of the day it is just a wanky soap shop that needs to get over itself.
It's a soap shop which many people have to cross the road or hold their breath to path because it's so overpowering. I'm wondering, do youngsters have a poorer sense of smell? Maybe we get sensitised to certain things, I really can't stand the emanations from lush shops.
GrimDamnFanjo · 05/08/2020 00:13

Trotted past the Manchester Arndale store today to see a big poster in the window - something about what Lush don't allow - racism and transphobia.

SerenityNowwwww · 05/08/2020 00:58

Didn’t you have a sharpie on your bag? Add ‘or women’ to the poster

MissEliza · 05/08/2020 01:11

Very true @NiceGerbil so I'll have to find a way to explain to my dd (11) why we can't go there for expensive rubbish any more.

SerenityNowwwww · 05/08/2020 01:16

Because they hate women?

AvocadoBathroom · 05/08/2020 03:04

Lush bathbombs give me thrush. Another reason to not shop with them. The one they do called "Sex Bomb"? UTI party that is.

AvocadoBathroom · 05/08/2020 03:05

Nothing in Lush can't be found cheaper in other places now. So many other good skincare and natural shampoo brands on the market.

uniglowooljumper · 05/08/2020 11:56

Instead of spending money on Lush, pick up some great tshirts. I have the 'woman banned' one and the 'cancelled' one.

SunsetBeetch · 05/08/2020 12:01

@OneWomanOneDog

I'm not going to want to know this, but what did body shop do?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3934951-the-body-shop-has-fallen

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

Roseburn · 05/08/2020 12:08

I took a deep breath ( to try and avoid the fumes) and entered Lush last Christmas looking for bathbombs for presents, trying to find ones without glitter, but was struggling . ( who wants to get out of the bath looking like a caked Christmas Card?) I asked the sales assistant to point me in the direction of the non-glitter ones and she was bewildered - 'oh but glitter is very popular.'

I'll bet.

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