M&S apologises over trans employee in bra department (Telegraph)

[WimbledonWhites]

How many “cis” male members of staff do you suppose would approach teenage girls in the lingerie department?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/ms-apologises-over-trans-employee-in-bra-department/

https://archive.ph/nTDB9archive.ph/nTDB9

Oh. yes. They leverage tall women because it suits them to.

Tall women - meaning that surely female people are just getting confused between a tall woman and a male person.

Tall woman - 'tall' is just another adjective like 'trans', didn't you know? Both are types of 'women'.

Tall women - this type of woman is currently getting abused by female people for using the correct single sex space for them.

The list goes on. The leveraging and political appropriation of anyone who is convenient is par for the course.

That is the one!

A pillar of society with impeccable taste in people who know how to behave in public spaces.

Oh, wait.

Yes, Sophie Molly/Sparkles/who the fuck knows now who declared at a 'protest', attended by Scottish Green MSP's, that he intends to 'shit on JKR'. Same guy who, with his cronies, held a protest outside the women's toilets in a shopping centre in Dundee and (as a pp said) who is such a liability that the Scottish Greens (hardly known for the high quality of their election candidates) deselected him from the list.

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-greens-deselect-general-election-candidate-over-jk-rowling-comments

Yes. This is the one too..

So:

• All males beyond the age of let's say 10, excepting I guess some with learning difficulties, are aware of basic female boundaries. These boundaries include that males should not start unsolicited discussions about underwear with any female strangers, and especially young ones who are likely to be embarrassed and aren't well versed in telling said males to f* off.

• Males also know that being a shop employee (in a different department of the shop) makes no difference.

• Males also know that men are not employed to "help" women or girls choose underwear.

• Males also know that men who do any of these things are doing so for their own benefit, i.e. fetish or harassment.

A question for the trans women on the thread - do any of you agree that what happened is not ok? If so, I haven't seen any such posts. You realise it looks like you're all in the pervert category, right?

Or do you genuinely not understand that this is a boundary for females?

That post is really, really worrying especially this part

.. we're talking about a 14 year old girl who is fully responsible for her actions ..

This reads like the sort of reasoning that a pedophile would use to justify their abuse.

It does, doesn't it?

He is a man

This is why actual sexed words are important.

It smacks of the police response to the girls in Rotherham etc.

So Lun82, you’re in alignment with Molly/Sophie Sparkles as regards whether it’s appropriate for a male to approach, unasked, a female child in the bra section. Right side of history, innit?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5169517-5169517-sparkles-vs-councilor-laurie-burton?page=1

Ahhhhhh THAT Molly Sparkles.

They really don't realise they leave receipts all over the Internet, do they.

For you scolders who think we're transphobic, er no, I don't care either way if a transwoman shop assistant wants to advise me on wine, or household ornaments, or birthday cards. BUT NOT FUCKING UNDERWEAR! WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON?

Incidentally, I'd also find it well weird if a female shop assistant from another department approached me in the lingerie department and offered to help me with bras.

What is disgusting, is your ignorance, @Lun82 . It's disgusting to attempt to justify a MALE accosting a 14 year old girl, to talk about underwear. Anyone attempting to justify that has no idea of safeguarding or sexual predators.

1. M&S have said he was not supposed to be working that section. So he shouldn't even have been there.
2. M&S don't approach customers, it's a rule, so they are not allowed to ask if they need help - there is the clue he was in the wrong.
3. Finally, he FLED when the mother came on the scene! He is a predator!

He did EVERYTHING wrong!

I guess at least Sparkles doesn’t dress up his willingness to ignore women’s boundaries with faux confusion & naivety. We know he thinks women should just STFU so he can ‘exist’.

Males approaching underage girls to talk to them about their underwear used to be a crime - I'm pretty sure!

At the very least, he's a filthy sexual predator!

And yes it was the one I was thinking of who dressed up like a school girl at Hogwarts.

https://x.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1914225795389677850

Wow. Like I said in a post above, it's making them ALL look like perverts.

Is part of the thrill that the words are in plain sight?

It's all a bit Jimmy Saville

@Lun82 No, it is NOT their job. M&S aren't allowed to approach customers.

If you see nothing wrong with a MALE approaching young girls to talk about their underwear with them, there is something wrong with the wiring somewhere. I suppose you also think there is nothing wrong with girls accepting a ride from the man with the van sitting outside their school?

You might be right there. Getting away with it while the evidence is clearly there.

Whether they were 'trans' or not, they were, a MALE.

It is VERY WRONG for a MALE to approach young girls and discuss their underwear with them. You really should not need this explained to you....

a bit?

He's an ex-lawyer, now does TV. He is gay - maybe he's one of those gay men who don't give a damn about women.