Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
@EndWokeness Tbh it doesn't matter what the motive is now.. terrorism, mental health, having white skin, simply looking at someone the wrong way
Britsh citizens are being raped, murdered financially being bled dry and the political class and police look the other way
🚨🇬🇧 UK Two Tier Justice
In once Great Britain you can break a Women’s Police Officers Nose at an airport, and walk away a free man - but only if you’re Muslim.
If you’re a White English Man - you get 2.5 Years in jail & sentenced within a week for throwing a Traffic Cone‼️
Britain is under the Fascist dictatorship.
Nationwide building society doubles CEO’s pay to £4.7m.
Workers got 3.8% rise.
Members denied a binding vote on exec pay.
A member prevented from standing for board election by insiders.
Has Nationwide become a private fiefdom?
Need governance reforms
https://t.co/W9ixXOmTXn
Does anybody else think this is insane?
Shoplifting is up 20%.
Sexual offences are up 11%.
And yet the police are advertising for:
£75,000 'equality, diversity & human rights role'
£72,000 'senior culture lead'
£64,000 'culture and inclusion lead'
Scrap DEI. Fight crime!
'Policing as it should be no longer exists.'
Former Met Police Detective Peter Bleksley calls for the police to ditch 'divisive, unfair, prejudicial drivel'.
Folks for decades @CollegeofPolice & @PoliceChiefs have pumped out their Diversity & Race Plan Bollox unopposed an Un-Impregnable organisations allowed to spout their nonsense & they have become part of the problem & NOT part of the solution;
WE are ALL seeing that NOW & they are wont be so Impregnable for much longer;
Disband @CollegeofPolice & kick the arses of @PoliceChiefs as the public want to get back to Proper basic POLICING & NOT for officers being frightened of doing so due to your PRONOUNS & Diversity & Race Action Plans;
These have caused policing to change their Ethos of policing without fear or favour to fearing to challenge those from the BAME community through fear of upsetting them & thereafter fearing the ramifications of riots & public disorder👇🤷♂️
@robprogressive The rate of interest on student loans is one of the greatest scandals of our time. The stress of having a huge loan at a time when youth employment is so challenging is a bitter pill for many to navigate and they're running to stand still. Charge interest but capped
A graduate earning £50,000 pays 40% income tax, 8% National Insurance, & 9% Student Loan repayment. That is a 57% marginal tax rate on a standard middle-management salary
The brightest talent is being taxed at a higher rate than multi-millionaires. It's economic madness
Calling UK student loans a "loan" is a scam
It's a lifelong graduate tax
Because interest rates are tied to RPI inflation, the balance grows faster than most graduates can ever pay it off
The majority will just watch 9% of their pay vanish every month for 30 or 40 years until it’s written off
It's a permanent drag on young wealth creation
Kenny Dalglish's heroic response to Hillsborough should never be underappreciated & will never be forgotten by Liverpool fans.
"When a community that was grieving, that felt the world was against them; one man stood up for them & that was Kenny"
"Don't thank me and don't say I'm a hero. I'm no hero, I was lucky, I'm here. All the heroes are dead and I'll never forget them as long as I live."
The remarkable D-Day veteran Harry Billinge MBE.
Harry sadly passed away on 5 April 2022 at the age of 96.
His generation saved the world.
Never forget 😢
🚨BREAKING: “Police can’t always treat races equally”
- Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lammy.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty two tier to me….
The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.
They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.
Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.
South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam.
This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door.
Nobody voted for this.
My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾
Why are Andrew Mountbatten’s daughters, who aren’t working royals and add nothing to nation’s public life other than wearing big hats at Ascot, being given free housing? They both have jobs and wealthy husbands too.
I suspect this is about to become a problem, and rightly so.