Do you already own anything by Nike that you no longer want to wear

[ChristinaXYZ]

Sharron Davis has just posted an idea - if you're really angry with Nike and no longer want to wear the stuff you've already got then send it back to them. I would love the thought of their offices being swamped.

The tweet is here:

https://twitter.com/sharrond62/status/1645015519072854017

A reply in the thread notes this as Nike UK headquarters

Film House, 142 Wardour St, London W1F 8DD

Anticipating someone pointing out the cost of living and wasting of clothes - if you're not going to wear something any more you've three choices, throw it out, charity shop or send Nike stuff to Nike in protest.

UK charity shops are so swamped with unsold clothes that it ends up abroad being their rubbish to deal with - so I reckon you can send your stuff back to Nike with a clear conscience.

And anticpating further criticism - I am not trying to Nike shame anyone who cannot afford to replace their running or gym gear - or just wants to wear what they already own. Nor am I trying to tell you not to buy Nike if it is the only thing you like or you don't care about the furore. Wear what you like, buy what you like!

But if you are angry, and don't want your Nike gear anymore then the above address is just a thought.

Please hate mob me by sending me free sportswear, thank you.

(also if anyone wants to go the extra mile and the mob me with any Irregular Choice shoes don’t hold back.)

I’m idly wondering about the environmental impact of synthetic wigs but you are right, best not to get sidetracked.

Here’s a reminder of Nike’s shitty treatment of pregnant athletes m:

https://sports.yahoo.com/nikes-new-ad-celebrating-pregnant-athletes-falls-flat-given-its-own-history-of-mistreating-them-225310014.html

I am genuinely not trying to be goady, but are those Nike sports bras that I have been wearing as a female for many years now made to fit men? I am rarely confused but this has confused me. Surely sports clothes need to be made for women.

Whatever the case I haven't and will not buy Nike anymore. Plenty of women in the world to model so my feeling is there is only one reason Nike chose Dylan and that is to mock me for spending so much on Nike over the long years. I am actually quite saddened by that.

Wow, amazing point. I'm sure Nike's corporate HQ are just as desperate for free used sportswear as you are.

Trust pilot is golden right now 🤣

The topic is this
”Sharron Davis has just posted an idea - if you're really angry with Nike and no longer want to wear the stuff you've already got then send it back to them.”

Which requires posting items which creates CO2 emissions. So CO2 emission are a valid thing to point about about the recommended protest that the OP is campaigning for support to do. We all have an individual responsibility to not worsen the planet for our children.

Breast Implants are not natural or biodegradable, no.

They are usually incinerated.

Whataboutery accusations from the person who dragged a thread about protesting Nike due to Nike’s disrespect for women into a discussion about polar bears is a hilarious self own.

Anyway, back to women.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/allyson-felix-pregnancy-nike.html

@ChristinaXYZ

"UK charity shops are so swamped with unsold clothes that it ends up abroad being their rubbish to deal with - so I reckon you can send your stuff back to Nike with a clear conscience."

What is your source for this please?

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a35877784/alysia-montano-nike-maternity-ad/

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!!!!!!

Clutches ethically defensible carbon neutral alternative to pearls.

I wonder if the faux tongue in cheek scolds would be similarly trying to minimise any backlash if Nike (or other business) centred Rachel Dolezal as a role model for Black History Month. Her fight to be recognised for who she is, and paid modelling adds for the month.

The term to 'Boycott' comes from events in Ireland ca. 1880 during the Irish Land Wars. Captain Charles Boycott was a land agent in Co. Mayo for the absentee landlord, Lord Erne. A lot of land in Ireland was owned by landlords (many/most absent) living off the toil and rents of the mass of people who were tenants in a precarious position with few rights. It was not long after the shock of the famine, and harvests were poor. Boycott wouldn't reduce the rents for tenants in any meaningful way. Because tenants couldn't pay, he tried to evict them. Boycotting was an action which involved ostracising any tenants who took over the tenancy from evicted families, and extended to refusing to work for Boycott, or even serve him. It was very successful method, and recreated in other areas in Ireland. It led to the Land Law (Ireland) act of 1881. The Irish Land League had aims of the three F's for tenants; Free sale, Fixity of tenure, and Fair rent.

I shall carry on the good Irish tradition of boycotting. Prefer New Balance anyway. Please don't let NB disrespect women, or directly discriminate against them wrt sponsorships in the way Nike have done.

Companies using a transperson in their ads isn't going to make the sky fall down.

Nobody is complaining about transpeople in ads for goods that are appropriate - if it were for sports bags or other sex-neutral items. But sports bras - and the most suitable person they can find to model/advertise them is a biological male? It's pure mockery. It would be a bit like Bugaboo advertising their new prams by squeezing Greg Davies into one of them.

As an alternative to sending the clothes back, is it possible to buy cheap iron-on stylised black stick-shaped motifs - to turn the Nike tick into a cross? That way, nobody has to give up their existing useful sportswear, but then, every time they wear it, it's negative exposure for Nike - plus it gives the wearer an opportunity to spread the word about them mocking women to anybody who doesn't yet know, but who asks what the logo means.

I just saw this comment
”That way you can combine your passion for saving the earth with your trans rights activism!”

Why does rejecting an environmentally irresponsible form of protest mean I’m somehow a trans rights activist? How bizzarre that you would associate caring for the planet with being anti-woman and pro-trans.

I’m as GC as they come. I just don’t agree that we need to shit all over the planet to succeed in our activism.

@L3ThirtySeven : We all have an individual responsibility to not worsen the planet for our children.

Indeed we do. Very important that our daughters and granddaughters do not experience a world with fewer rights to safety, fairness, equality and dignity.

I’m as GC as they come.

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So says the person who brought up surgery, silicon, breast implants and Amazon socks.

I only mentioned polar bears as an example of the climate crisis- which is relevant to a protest that demands unnecessary CO2 emissions.

You didn’t bring up your items as examples of anything that is relevant at all. It was pure whataboutery.

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Finger wagging at terves is SUCH a GC look!

What of those are we losing due to Nikes advert?
No one of them.

It’s a negative impact on the environment for no gain in womens rights. It’s just to express anger over a bad advert.

And what do you think about Nike’s record re: treatment of Female Athletes?

Because that’s the important bit. That’s the bit we are protesting about.

You should know, you started it.

Women! Do not express anger at insulting adverts! Remember your female socialisation!

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I'll be sticking black fabric tape on mine and very happy to a conversation with anyone at the gym who asks me why. Have left a review on Trust Pilot. Bravo Nike, bravo.

Hopefully, this wokeness will get more people on board and question what's really happening.

I would just advocate that we protest in an environmentally responsible way.

Nike are a company which I think disrespects women. You can support that if you wish. I won't, quite the opposite.

I'm sure they will be environmentally friendly and recycle the textile. Or, have they green washed so as to get the name of an early riser whilst sleeping till noon.