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Mannequins
« on: 25 May 2019, 21:53:34 »

I went to M&S today looking for something to wear, now I ain’t no racist, but every one of the dummy’s were black, Jesus Christ I’m livid, please can anybody try to convince me why/how this has come about?
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #1 on: 25 May 2019, 22:14:43 »

Inclusion.
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #2 on: 25 May 2019, 22:21:29 »

And exclusion then?
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #3 on: 25 May 2019, 22:45:24 »

I wonder what your reaction will be when you see some that have nipples???
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #4 on: 25 May 2019, 22:46:30 »

I went to M&S today looking for something to wear, now I ain’t no racist, but every one of the dummy’s were black, Jesus Christ I’m livid, please can anybody try to convince me why/how this has come about?

Why does the colour of an inanimate object make you angry? :-\
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #5 on: 25 May 2019, 23:10:49 »

We all have nipples, ... we are not all black.
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #6 on: 26 May 2019, 06:55:17 »

The way things are going, M&S won't be selling clothes for too much longer, so no mannequins needed.
Then you can go into their food store and complain that there's black pudding everywhere.  ;D
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #7 on: 26 May 2019, 11:56:29 »

I noticed that whilst in Banburyshire yesterday.  And it wasn't just M&S either. About half the shops were the same.

Surely, if they are aiming to be PC, surely 87% should be white?  But like so many larger businesses now, they manage to get it wrong (I've spent 30yrs in a company that promotes positive discrimination).

Instead, they have made it a bit obvious, and highlighted it, and IMHO completely missed the mark.  I think they run a big risk of alienating their core customer by making something out of a non issue.
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #8 on: 26 May 2019, 12:15:13 »

Over-representation of the etbnics is rife on television too; hardly an advert goes by without the majority of characters being black, and dramas such as EastEnders, Casualty and Holby have very few white actors. Some scenes give the impression of being filmed in another country!

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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #9 on: 26 May 2019, 12:27:08 »

I've never met a white OR black person
Goths try but fail
shades of pink, beige, brown and some OOFers probably grey  ;D
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #10 on: 26 May 2019, 12:30:33 »

I've never met a white OR black person
Goths try but fail
shades of pink, beige, brown and some OOFers probably grey  ;D


Scarlet for the OP......
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #11 on: 26 May 2019, 12:37:31 »

We all have nipples, ... we are not all black.

So presumably when they all used to be white, it used to leave you in a similarly irate state? I only ask because I must have missed the thread where you mentioned it.
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #12 on: 26 May 2019, 12:43:12 »

Watch the ads on TV.

It seems that these days every white girl has a black boyfriend, and that every white wife has a black husband.

It's 'overdone' PC to show we all live in an equal inclusive society.
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Re: Mannequins
« Reply #13 on: 26 May 2019, 14:57:27 »

We all have nipples, ... we are not all black.

So presumably when they all used to be white, it used to leave you in a similarly irate state? I only ask because I must have missed the thread where you mentioned it.
               Why would I make a thread about white ones? That’s what I expect to see in this country.
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« Reply #14 on: 26 May 2019, 15:07:18 »

Watch the ads on TV.

It seems that these days every white girl has a black boyfriend, and that every white wife has a black husband.

It's 'overdone' PC to show we all live in an equal inclusive society.
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                Agreed, plus the mandatory gay boy, lesbian, transvestite, etc on most tv shows.
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