Sex Matters has written to the senior leadership of Marks & Spencer (M&S) to warn the company that its policy of advertising male and female changing rooms but then operating them as mixed-sex facilities could amount to indirect discrimination and harassment towards women.
I’d also say that M&S typically have different floors and areas for male and female clothing, so for men to use the changing area in the women’s clothing section is bizarre or blasé
NEXT stores also operate mixed sex changing areas. I’ve visited Meadowhall and Lincoln stores which have curtained cubicles. The store in Lincoln had a man sat in the middle of the changing area waiting for his girlfriend to change so he could approve outfits. The one in Meadowhall had men changing in it who hadn’t fully closed the curtains while changing. This was next to the women’s swimwear/holiday clothing area.
Isn’t it extraordinary that M&S would prefer a drop in the sale of women’s clothes, rather than get off the fence and have fitting rooms exclusively for women. Talk about being ideologically captured and hugely disappointing - not to say potentially downright dangerous. I won’t be buying any clothes or indeed food from M&S ever again and neither will any of my female friends. Great bit of advertising for a publicly listed company - how arrogant can you get? Doesn’t M&S have a duty of care to its share holders>
In English idiom 'trying it on' means "to deceive someone or behave badly, especially in order to discover how much of your bad behaviour will be allowed". So, calling changing rooms "trying on spaces" is uncannily accurate. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/try-it-on
Fantastic work, thank you. I’ve been writing to them for years and leafleting locally. All I’ve ever managed is to nearly get myself banned from the entire shopping centre after M and S identified me from cc tv.
Nobody should buy clothes from M&S anyway. Ill fitting garbage.
Thanks and well done pursuing M&S.
You also provided me with a good headline 😀
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/letters-from-iwo-jima
Dusty
I’d also say that M&S typically have different floors and areas for male and female clothing, so for men to use the changing area in the women’s clothing section is bizarre or blasé
NEXT stores also operate mixed sex changing areas. I’ve visited Meadowhall and Lincoln stores which have curtained cubicles. The store in Lincoln had a man sat in the middle of the changing area waiting for his girlfriend to change so he could approve outfits. The one in Meadowhall had men changing in it who hadn’t fully closed the curtains while changing. This was next to the women’s swimwear/holiday clothing area.
Maybe UK patriots will visit Archie when he’s vulnerable ??
Isn’t it extraordinary that M&S would prefer a drop in the sale of women’s clothes, rather than get off the fence and have fitting rooms exclusively for women. Talk about being ideologically captured and hugely disappointing - not to say potentially downright dangerous. I won’t be buying any clothes or indeed food from M&S ever again and neither will any of my female friends. Great bit of advertising for a publicly listed company - how arrogant can you get? Doesn’t M&S have a duty of care to its share holders>
In English idiom 'trying it on' means "to deceive someone or behave badly, especially in order to discover how much of your bad behaviour will be allowed". So, calling changing rooms "trying on spaces" is uncannily accurate. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/try-it-on
Fantastic work, thank you. I’ve been writing to them for years and leafleting locally. All I’ve ever managed is to nearly get myself banned from the entire shopping centre after M and S identified me from cc tv.
Boycott them. They are struggling with their clothes sales. Food is the only thing making money. Tired of these people.