Paperchase taking leave of their senses

[Imnobody4]

twitter.com/BradfemlyWalsh/status/1372701455866552336?s=19
"Feel empowered... uplift and motivate... supporting the Campaign for Female Education" ... by buying a notebook with a load of women's arses in their knickers on the cover.

Slow handclap for @FromPaperchase t.co/WwyKpOqp17

Yep not for the first time. Crude drawing of "tits" in stationery has been available for some time. Personally I've never been convinced by the narrative"it's empowering cos we say so" and am disappointed in them.

Oh look, what a shocker

Isn't that transphobic? Saying they only got the job because of their LGBT status?

They need to make the tweet clearer if not.

I don't care if they are a 'queer and trans couple' or not. They could identify as duck-billed platypuses and it would make no difference.

The product is still awful.

This image has become a symbol of female empowerment & recognised as such in this form,

No it hasn't. what a plonker.

A shop full of the worst unnecessary tat. Nobody needs anything in that shop.

They could identify as duck-billed platypuses and it would make no difference.

TDBPADBP

@bootlebum

UGH

What on earth are they thinking. Is this empowering? So powerful men have notebooks covered in male arses do they?

Yeah. If arses are really empowering, then where are all the notebooks covered in male arses?

I would bet women are 90% of the spending at Paperchase. Do they think we are stupid? They are certainly treating us as if we are.

We already have arse paper. It comes in rolls.

WTF. They've been well and truly trolled by those artists in a bid to be woke. I just don't know who the target is for this. Hope they all end up in the bin. They will definitely be turning up in bulk in the sale.

If arses are really empowering, then where are all the notebooks covered in male arses?

If my house is anything to go by, they wouldn't be able to take them to work because they'd be constantly scratching them.

And they are all white, aren't they?

Did the artists behind the arse notebook consent to have their sexuality and/or transgender status broadcast on twitter by Paperchase?

Yeah they blast it all over
I went and looked at their site
They use that wierd "power couple" thing there as well
More problematic for Paperchase is they refer to them as a lesbian couple on their shop page
I wonder if they A/B tested the sales depending on the wording, or if it's just not been updated

I’m speechless. I don’t know any born and raised girl or woman who would think this design ‘fun’, ‘cute’ or in any way ‘empowering’.

If the patriarchy had a logo, it’d be detached female body parts. Double points if it’s parts they’d like to penetrate.

It’s like the trans community are borrowing from the patriarchy and then trying to sell our now-fetishised body parts back to us? Why doesn’t that feel like a move in the right direction for society to me?

And let me just add- ‘Diversity, my arse.’

If the patriarchy had a logo, it’d be detached female body parts.

So much this.

They have form.
They had to remove a load of recommended explicit cards.

Also when fruit was a craze for primary age girls they did a massive range with. Aubergine, peach.

Knowing full well this would mean innocent girls walking around with water bottles with emoji for cock' on them etc.

They know who buys their stuff and that was really shit.

www.thesun.co.uk/living/2709324/paperchase-slammed-for-vile-valentines-cards-with-messages-about-anal-sex-and-body-parts/

What in the name of HELL...

I was just coming on this thread to post something like that, NiceGerbil.

Every year or so there is a thread on mumsnet about the latest inappropriate card from Paperchase.

They're arseholes.

Shame because I like their shops

Awful. Typical MO to associate female sexual degradation with the “empowerment” of women. And a zero for diversity. Totally to do with white males feeling empowered.

If you read the replies, there seems to be a unsurprising theme considering the artists. It is being sold as ‘body positive’ and some go on to point out people are also anti sexwork if they don’t think this is empowering.

In fact, one recent experimental mn user keeps piping up to tell people its ok, it about being body positive.

I did like one guy showing the pic to their friends who, from his report back, started rating them before he told them it was supposed to be empowering for women. Rather shows the point nicely.

Also, I did not see my muffin top there. They all seemed to have some kind of waist. The one that didn’t was wearing those boxer brief thingoes.