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Barclays criticised for advert that shows transgender woman receiving financial advice so she can fund surgery to give her 'big t***'

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ScreamingMeMe · 04/09/2022 14:05

Barclays criticised for advert that shows transgender woman receiving financial advice so she can fund surgery to give her 'big t*'

By Sam Merriman For The Mail On Sunday

02:01, 04 Sep 2022 , updated 02:01, 04 Sep 2022

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177491/Barclays-ad-shows-transgender-woman-receiving-financial-advice-fund-big-t.html

The bank has teamed up with Channel 4 for a series of 'authentic' TV adverts

Luna, a 30-year-old transgender woman, wants advice on saving for surgery

She details how she is transitioning from male to female but her goal is surgery

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swallowedAfly · 04/09/2022 16:40

They might as well be advertising giving financial advice to an anorexic wanting gastric band surgery. This.won't.age.well.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/09/2022 16:48

At not one of those stages did someone say, "Er, this might not be a good campaign?".

It's an epic troll of pretty much everyone.

VirginiaWool · 04/09/2022 17:40

@raindon agree that promoting saving is better than promoting debt.

But for the past fifteen years saving via banks is a mug's game - we bailed them out then our cash lost value year on year.

If this lady wants tits then Barclays is not the answer. And no amount of rainbow washing on their part will make it so.

Whatawasteofcats · 04/09/2022 17:45

Classy.

MorningPlatypus · 04/09/2022 17:52

Revolting.

SvartePetter · 04/09/2022 17:56

Can you imagine Barclays making the same commercial about a woman wanting a boob job? How do you reckon that would go down?

MrsAppleHead · 04/09/2022 17:59

I used to work for said bank. Plastic surgery was way down on the criteria for being eligible for a loan as it was deemed to show a level of unstableness... ask for a car instead mate.

KittenKong · 04/09/2022 18:01

I worked for a bank too and my old boss had been a manager - I remember him telling me how carefully he had to consider loans. He would have laughed his socks off of someone had come in wanting a loan for cosmetic surgery.

raindon · 04/09/2022 18:02

KittenKong · 04/09/2022 18:01

I worked for a bank too and my old boss had been a manager - I remember him telling me how carefully he had to consider loans. He would have laughed his socks off of someone had come in wanting a loan for cosmetic surgery.

They didnt want a loan, just savings advice

raindon · 04/09/2022 18:03

VirginiaWool · 04/09/2022 17:40

@raindon agree that promoting saving is better than promoting debt.

But for the past fifteen years saving via banks is a mug's game - we bailed them out then our cash lost value year on year.

If this lady wants tits then Barclays is not the answer. And no amount of rainbow washing on their part will make it so.

This is true. Maybe Luna needs a crowdfunder

raindon · 04/09/2022 18:04

SvartePetter · 04/09/2022 17:56

Can you imagine Barclays making the same commercial about a woman wanting a boob job? How do you reckon that would go down?

I guess if the woman had a traumatic backstory it might go down OK. But yes good point.

VirginiaWool · 04/09/2022 18:10

It's all done on phones via algorithms anyway, these days. Your local branch manager now has no more authority to agree a loan than they do to send you to the moon to establish alternative civilization there.

If you want personalized advice you go to an IFA and get them to identify the best bank you can fill an online form in for.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/09/2022 19:03

Maybe the downstairs department is already taken care of.

Highly unlikely.

PermanentTemporary · 04/09/2022 19:11

Offensive to absolutely everybody and as @VirginiaWool says a bank savings account is going to get Luna precisely nowhere fast these days.

Trying to think of a bank advert if they're determined to centre trans issues that would be authentic, upbeat and not grossly offensive, and I think something about not refusing to serve customers on the phone with women's names and deep voices would probably be the nearest - that used to be a major issue for transwomen. But these days who does phone banking anyway.

Dreikanter · 04/09/2022 19:45

MrsAppleHead · 04/09/2022 17:59

I used to work for said bank. Plastic surgery was way down on the criteria for being eligible for a loan as it was deemed to show a level of unstableness... ask for a car instead mate.

“Ask for a car”.

Luna could then spend many a happy hour polishing their headlamps.

WildImaginings · 04/09/2022 20:01

I've just read the transcript and Luna is not asking for a loan. They have a certain amount saved up but they want to have a lot more saved before going through with the surgery so that they have an amount of savings left over for bills etc in case of emergency. Seems nervous to blow it all on surgery and have nothing left in the bank. Barclays advise Luna to aim for 16k as this is the surgery plus 3 months of bills, and suggest investing.

I don't agree with the advert at all and I agree they would never have done an advert about a woman wanting a boob job.

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 04/09/2022 20:55

KittenKong · 04/09/2022 14:32

So if I fancy a boob job or face lift the bank would give me a loan? I think not

the ad came on when we were sitting - it was 😳😳😳 ‘did they just say…???’ It was channel 4 though.

A bank will offer you a personal loan based on your credit rating, income and ability to pay. My husband had a personal loan for a lot of expensive, private dental treatment a few years ago ( no skin off my nose, we have separate bank accounts)

LeatherBasket · 04/09/2022 21:02

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 04/09/2022 14:47

I’m patiently waiting for Mabel to ask this ever helpful bank for a loan so she can have a massive penis.

Actually, if big tits is accepted parlance, I expect Mabel to ask for a huge cock.

Waiting patiently here Barclays…

Love it! 😂

Ohsugarhoneyicetea · 04/09/2022 21:08

Looking forward to the advert with a trans man excited about putting his new huge cock on credit.

Tallisker · 04/09/2022 21:11

Are new cocks always huge?

Dreikanter · 04/09/2022 21:21

A huge cock you say?

Barclays criticised for advert that shows transgender woman receiving financial advice so she can fund surgery to give her 'big t***'
Goawayangryman · 04/09/2022 21:22

The thing is, we are in an era of economic inflation and product shrinkflation.

I worry that Luna's new tetons are going to cost more than they think (accounting for cash impairment and poor return on savings), and also that the new assets will be smaller than they are hoping for.

Yuck to the corporate hijacking of trans and LGBITQ rights. As always, big bankers are slightly after the zeitgeist.. they might make loads of money but always by slightly embarrassing themselves culturally, in the process.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 04/09/2022 21:29

I wonder if Barclays would help me save for a new home, wheels and to permanently hoik my substantial bosom from its current resting place on my belly.

I’m willing to compromise…

Goawayangryman · 04/09/2022 21:36

@SheldonesqueTheBstard. i hope Barclays gives you strong support. And also does the same for the front grille of your camper wagon.....

WeeBisom · 04/09/2022 22:17

So saying a woman is an adult human female is reductive, and conflating people with their genitals. But saying that the 'feminine gender inside' is calling out for ...er...'big tits' is fine and dandy. I'm curious why Luna associates womanhood with 'big tits'. After all, plenty of women have small breasts. If a woman was in this advert, she would be seen as a bit sad and desperate, just some insecure person catering to the male gaze and pornographic ideas of what being a woman is.