Lush Binder Collection

[Sexnotgender]

Assuming this is a way for predominantly children to circumvent parents and get their hands on a binder.

Hopefully they'll listen to the backlash?

I guess the younger girls are the less damage they can do.

I still feel like I'm in an alternate universe though.

I'm hoping it's just a rogue manager who got high on sniffing bath bombs and not a company sanctioned action.

When I was a teen , young uns would hang out in Virgin and Flip. Worst we would bring home is something dreadful records and posters, weird second hand clothes or maybe the odd boyfriend. Nothing so... so damn damaging.

@Elleexxtra

Hopefully they'll listen to the backlash?

I guess the younger girls are the less damage they can do.

I still feel like I'm in an alternate universe though.

I'm hoping it's just a rogue manager who got high on sniffing bath bombs and not a company sanctioned action.

I suspect that the younger girls when they bind their breasts, the more damage they do. It's why foot binding happened at such a young age so that bones, muscles and tendons were compressed and out of shape leading to girls being unable to ever walk and run freely. In the same way developing breast tissue is wrecked from early binding.

They have deleted the comments and they are switched off

”They have deleted the comments and they are switched off”

When you don’t like the feedback you’re getting, it’s ALWAYS the best move to stick your fingers in your ears and shout “La-La-La I’m not listening”

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

Sure someone has screen shotted them. I doubt it will stop them - the excitement of it being under the counter, by word of mouth...

I emailed them . It’s disgusting.

I can still see the old comments under the specific post (just went to check).

Surely this opens up lush to be sued? It is clear that binders cause harm.

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

This is "tip off the media" level.

It will just take one angry momma bear to go down there...

@NecessaryScene

I’ll be writing to Lush head office. I doubt they’ll listen either, but at least they won’t be able to pull a Jess Phillips about the issue.

This is "tip off the media" level.

Already done

Their landlord may be interested too.

This needs to be in the news. Hope Janice Turner, James Kirkup etc and maybe even someone at the Observer (if not the Guardian) will cover it.

I started boycotting Lush a while back after there were several stories about their treatment of female staff (the lipstick kissing promo, the naked one with just aprons, etc) and then fundraising for Mermaids and putting up signs telling people with "signs of transphobia" (such as, er, wanting to keep prisons single-sex, or knowing the dictionary definition of "woman") that they were not welcome (more on these here womenspeakscotland.com/2020/08/08/lush/ ).

But this is actively promoting a self-harming practice, which can cause permanent physical damage and encourage girls towards double mastectomy later on as their breasts are so damaged - to children, in secret, without their parents' knowledge. It's unforgivable and every parent who shops there needs to know about it.

I have written to the HO - have shared with teenage daughters (who find the gender stuff ridiculous) - who will tell their friends what is wrong with Lush (they already wont shop there after all the previous shit they have pulled)

I have also posted on the PTA sites.

Told Lush all of this.

There is just something quite sinister in trying to create the visual of a young man (the flat chest, narrow waist/hips, fine bone structure). Who wants that?

So I wonder who else is doing this? Is there a ‘collection list’ on the binder site?

Comments are still there as far as I can see - plenty more than last night too

I’m w seeing who else is up to this. What else are stores handing over on brown paper bags?

There is just something quite sinister in trying to create the visual of a young man (the flat chest, narrow waist/hips, fine bone structure). Who wants that?

There's also something incredibly sinister about strangers talking in secret to children about their breasts.

Its incredible what kind of behaviour is excused behind affirmation

Store staff aren't eveb dbs checked are they? I mean not working with children or vulnerable adults in a caring or educational capacity it wouldn't be necessary would it?

I’m so completely shocked by this. I literally have no words. If people want to take this route they need qualified help and support to make safe choices.

@Whatwouldscullydo

Store staff aren't eveb dbs checked are they? I mean not working with children or vulnerable adults in a caring or educational capacity it wouldn't be necessary would it?

I really wouldn’t imagine they are!

Where is the safeguarding? It’s absolute madness.

Are these things given out on the NHS

On a side note, can I just voice concern in general over the outsourcing of emotional wellbeing/life style choice decisions/assistance etc onto minimum wage retail staff. If we had the capacity to be councillors, physio therapapists, social workers, marriage guidence counsellors/addiction advisors etc we'd have trained as such and be paid as such.

Not only does this place staff In positions they shouldn't be in with all the liability of it goes wrong, it also absolves all those who should be in charge of it, of any responsibilities.

One place I went to for a bra fit requested my presence as under 14 they wouldn't be alone with the child in the cubicle. Wheres the staff back up fir taking about breasts on a shop floor with children