It never ceases to amaze me the way “inclusive” is for trans people but never ever for women. I still say I was never given the option to agree or disagree with the proposition “women are no longer an oppressed group in any way.”
See by giving customers a choice of male or female changing rooms they’re not being “an inclusive retailer,” because they’re excluding female people who don’t want to risk being spied on or assaulted while they try on a bra. It’s stupid and mindless to call it “inclusive” to give men carte blanche to do that.
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I’ll bet they have some limits in their “inclusivity.” What if a customer identifies as a Marks and Spencer staff member and enters the lunch room? Or, is quite sure that they have a strongly held feeling of being Marks and Spencer’s CEO, and demands access to the day’s sales figures and cash? How far would that get them? Wouldn’t denying these identity claims be horribly excluding? And exclusion is always bad, right?
“See by giving customers a choice of male or female changing rooms…”
They don’t even have male / female changing rooms; they have male / anyone.
I just wondered to myself how many women are signing up for the bra fitting service these days in their mixed-sex changing rooms.Then it occurred to me that a woman who books a bra fitting will expect this to be done by a female member of the M&S team, and may well turn up to find she is booked in with a “woman”.