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

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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/

@tobee

When, some months ago, I looked up who the CEO of Lush was, and I saw his photo, it all made sense.

Is there a beard?

If lush don't know that (biological) male humans cannot become (biological, again, without saying) female humans, then I can conclude I am significantly more educated on the subject than them.

HTH lush. Do better huns.

oh marvellous I was goign to improve their storefront but was too tired after the meeting yesterday - are there any photos circulating?

And there of lots of women now leaving comments on facebuik saying Lush are bollocks.

I would like to reverse engineer Angels on Bare Skin if I could get my mits on clay it would be quite easy I think.

The toxic smell coming out of lush is enough to put most off. i don't know how the staff can stand it.

But surely it is illegal to refuse to serve someone for such a reason?
Maybe there ought to be a concerted campaign just to highlight the nonsense? Make sure you wear a face mask too.....to prevent feelings of nausea and migraine.

But obviously I can't enter lush anyway, even without my AHF T-shirt.

Cause I identify as an alpaca and they refuse to test on animals.

Lush really does honk and they turned DS purple at one stage. And as for the bloody glitter and crap in their bath bombs...

Some of my friends/family were big fans of Lush and I’d buy their gifts from there. Not anymore after their ridiculous stance on women’s rights. Virtue signalling morons. They can feck right off.

I sincerely hope there is not enough people in the woke camp to keep the business afloat.

I only used to but the bath stuff for DH (before he was dyed purple) and it was an ordeal because the staff were very irritating. Of course the Body Shop off the list too...

And - they are being very short sighted. Piss of the older customers (and young feminists). Hope that the trendy woken types will carry on being trendy woken types and buy a lot of their stuff.

Watch as the trendy woken types grow the hell up and realise what a crappy tribe they were in ;and reject the brand), or jump on the next coming bandwagon which may very well be proper feminism. Either way, someone will go bankrupt (again?).

Strange isn't it. 100 years ago cervix owners would have been smashing their windows for that.

oh I like this comment
'This is so brave of you but can I ask how you're enforcing it? I mean, I presume you'll have some sort of questionnaire to complete prior to entry but I have misgivings about the accuracy because a) most people go for the middle answer regardless; and b) some people lie. So I could end up being in a shop with someone I disagree with which is fundamentally unsafe for me.
The sign with the zeros (I get we don't all have enough O letters and I'm not judging) is a good first step but please back this up. Maybe contact Jeremy Kyle for one of his lie detectors - he doesn't need them any more. Or get a really sinister penguin asking the questions. (They're trans so that's ok - my son told me.)

this is about preventing bigots going to this Lush shop ...

@StillNotAGirl

Would they serve someone wearing a man definition tee-shirt I wonder?

And would it make a difference whether it was a man or a woman wearing said tee-shirt?

I live in Edinburgh, I'm very tempted to get a 'Man definition' T-shirt and try it

On their Facebook post they said they wouldn't serve a woman wearing a t-shirt that says Woman - noun - biological adult human female.

That's bonkers!

I'm really saddened by this. I love Lush but I can't shop with them anymore.

I really wonder when businesses are going to stop pontificating at us all and get back to selling products at decent prices, without exploitation, and with decent service. I don't want any product with a side order of moral instruction.

Surely this corporate shit will become unfashionable soon. Imagine if Tesco bombarded you with adverts telling you to go to church....This is just a 2020 version of that.

As for Lush, they haven't got a decent product to rely on so they surely cannot be long for this world. Their products are ghastly and stinky and the shops are a blot on the High St with their awful cringe campaigns and their overwhelming pong.

@doadeer

On their Facebook post they said they wouldn't serve a woman wearing a t-shirt that says Woman - noun - biological adult human female.

That's bonkers!

I'm really saddened by this. I love Lush but I can't shop with them anymore.

Isn't that discrimination on the basis of sex? In which case wouldn't Lush UK be breaking the law as they would be discriminating against a protected characteristic as per the Equalities Act 2010.

Help me brainstorm a second, what would you include as "signs of racism, sexism, homophobia"...?

As y'know, they are as equally not allowed as AHF t shirts.

I mean something like a swastika would be obvious, but I mean the less obvious kind - the type of thing some random person wouldn't think twice over. Very out of date example would be some of the FCUK T-shirt's

lawsuit?

@CountreeGurl

I think it is great to see a business standing up for what it believes in. If you don't like it don't shop there, simple.

Businesses exist to make money. There's no need for them to espouse any cause or belief unrelated to the product it sells whatsoever; let alone one as dumb as "women adult human female". Pure stupidity can hardly be described as great.

They sell soap. When did they decide that telling people what to think was part of their remit? Stinky, glittery rubbish anyway.

@StillNotAGirl

Would they serve someone wearing a man definition tee-shirt I wonder?

And would it make a difference whether it was a man or a woman wearing said tee-shirt?

Their tiny minds would probably be blown by the photo of Fionne Orlander in an AHM t-shirt.

@CousinKrispy I get shampoo bars online from gruum

@fatblackcatspaw

oh I like this comment 'This is so brave of you but can I ask how you're enforcing it? I mean, I presume you'll have some sort of questionnaire to complete prior to entry but I have misgivings about the accuracy because a) most people go for the middle answer regardless; and b) some people lie. So I could end up being in a shop with someone I disagree with which is fundamentally unsafe for me. The sign with the zeros (I get we don't all have enough O letters and I'm not judging) is a good first step but please back this up. Maybe contact Jeremy Kyle for one of his lie detectors - he doesn't need them any more. Or get a really sinister penguin asking the questions. (They're trans so that's ok - my son told me.)

The children bought me a bath bomb for mothers day

I swear to god it turned my bath water black and had what looked like whale sperm on top 🤮

I did NOT get in that bath

(I wasn’t the one to compare it to whale sperm...but it was very apt)

Can someone come up with a one liner that we can all post? repeatedly?