Companies that nailed their colours to the mast early on in the gender debate

[Jessasamantha]

38 degrees petition site prompted a memory the other day about them taking down a petition calling for a debate on the GRA, which was then followed by a petition calling out 38 degrees on Change. Found it here

www.change.org/p/38-degrees-38-degrees-stop-silencing-and-censoring-women

Which got me thinking about all of the other companies who made it very clear they were not on the side of women early on in the debate, who perhaps may be reconsidering their misogyny and hoping that we might have forgotten. I have some vague memory of Co-op in the early days refusing to provide banking services to one of the first grass roots women's groups, can anyone confirm? Also Ocado, who sided with Primesight after they took down Kellie-Jay Keen's adult human female advert?

Any others from the early years?

@nepeta

Amnesty International has recently erased the word for biologically female people (w**n). Not sure how long ago they were taken over.

ACLU in the US is completely captured. Once again, not sure how long ago this happened, but supposedly they won't even take court challenges from what they call 'cis' women. In the past they accepted challenges from all sides of the political aisle if civil liberties appeared to have been violated.

One of their legal experts, a trans man, did tweet on the International Men's Day a couple of years ago about honouring menstruating men. That peaked quite a few men I know.

Hearing her shock when the ACLU told her "We will never support a cis woman against a woman".

Sorry, posted by mistake.

That ^^ remark was made in relation to this video linked by Emma Hilton https://twitter.com/fondofbeetles/status/1498330814400114694?s=21

Please keep this going, and yes, what companies should we be rewarding with our custom? I have the spending power of six individuals in my hands - where to go?

@PamDenick

The fact that we couldn't even debate was very very clever.

That is truly outrageous. One is a bigot for wanting to have a conversation about the rate at which our rights are being mined for other groups!

Good for peaking people, though, that command of NODEBATE.

Anyone mention Dentons (like a few of the big law firms - which was the one that was trying to implement gender neutral language on its documents?)

Also some of the large construction companies have been flying the rainbow flag (yfronts remix) on their sites and added them to their social media logos. Not always their websites (like Naked wines did) so maybe it’s just for show?

@Cookingutensil

Please keep this going, and yes, what companies should we be rewarding with our custom? I have the spending power of six individuals in my hands - where to go?

Not quite sure where to go - but you can buy plenty of birds eye food.

Proctor & Gamble

It’s hard to avoid them because they make so many things but I do my best.