62p AN HOUR: What women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet’s £45 ‘This Is What A Feminist Looks Like’ T-shirts
Feminist T-shirts worn by politicians are made in ‘sweatshop’ conditions
Migrant women in Mauritius are making the £45 tops for 62p an hour
They say: ‘We don’t feel like feminists. We don’t feel equal. We feel trapped’
Machinists sleep 16 to a room and earn less than average wage on island
T-shirt is sold in Whistles in aid of activism group The Fawcett Society
Deputy chief executive of the charity Dr Neitzert said they had originally been assured the garments would be produced ethically in the UK
When they received samples they noted they had been made in Mauritius
She added that if evidence emerges Whistles will have to withdraw range
Harriet Harman wore shirt on front bench of the Commons during PMQs
Do note that there’s nothing wrong at all with sweatshops, they’re a part of that route up out of poverty. But there is a joy in finding these holier than thous ethical types breaching their own posturings.
“When they received samples they noted they had been made in Mauritius”. But the Fawcett Society didn’t send them back for breach of contract or reduce the price because of the origin. £45 is a lot of money for a T-shirt, even an ethically produced one.
To borrow your phrase, Hang Them All.
This is what a group of C??ts look like would be more appropriate. They are in fantasy land. Roll on UKIP . Any one is better than these tossers.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything more representative of the decline of British politics than Clegg and Miliband wearing those t-shirts. From Empire to this in less than 100 years…
The Fawcett Society describes itself as “the UK’s leading charity for women’s equality and rights”.
Good.
So, by far the worst, most vile, disgusting, degrading, and just plain evil violation of the rights of the fairer sex in Britain in my lifetime has been the mass grooming, drugging, and rape of little English girls by Muslim paedophile gangs.
The Fawcett Society claims:
We believe that as a society we will be stronger, healthier and happier when all people – women and men – enjoy full equality and respect.
And we know that in Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford – and God knows how many other towns and cities – little girls were being fucked by Muslim paedophile gangs and passed around like sex dolls. And we know that the police, the social services, and the entire apparatus of the British state not only failed to protect those children. It actively conspired to ignore them. Even today, there are reports of the police putting a cap on the number of Muslim paedophiles they want to arrest. If true, it means the police are conspiring to keep child rapists on our streets, free to fuck more children.
So, what does “the UK’s leading charity for women’s equality and rights” have to say about that?
I searched their website for “Rotherham”. It produced only one result:
FAWCETT SUPPORTS NEW PUSH FOR SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION
Leading women’s rights campaigners have today launched an online petition calling on all party leaders to pledge to make Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) compulsory in all schools.
[…]
“From Blurred Lines to lads’ mags, online porn to Snapchat, the Lad Bible to Page 3, our culture routinely portrays women as dehumanised and sexualised, and men as sexual aggressors. This normalises misogynistic and even abusive behaviour towards women and girls. We have to make the connection between the conflicting messages this delivers to young people and the fact that 85,000 women are raped in England & Wales every year.”
[…]
“There is now a chorus of support for compulsory SRE across the political spectrum, across professions and experts, among parents and teachers. We cannot sit back and hope to respond better to the next Rotherham – we need to prevent it in the first place.”
To illustrate how demonising the music of Robin Thicke, Loaded magazine, pictures of tits on the internet, an instant messaging app, and pictures of boobs in newspapers might prevent another Rotherham, the press release includes a helpful cartoon where a mother complains to a white man in a suit about “images degrading to women”.
I have a new T-shirt idea for The Fawcett Society: “THIS IS WHAT A SPINELESS, PATHETIC COWARD LOOKS LIKE”.
Every authority figure who failed to act against reports of Muslim paedophile gangs should wear one. And then we should hang them.
The sad thing is that after this expose, the factory will no longer be making shirts. The workers will lose out again
Lefties never apply the same moral constraints to themselves as they do to others.
It’s because they are morally superior just because…
£45 for a T shirt?!?! More money than sense. Typical women!
“produced ethically in the UK”
How racist is that?
Just pendantry because I realise you are taking the piss rather than being serious, it may be called nationalist, possibly, even protectionist but, as SMFS points out, we are not a racially homogenous culture so, not at all, really.
And, another thing, the reason the Fawcett Society can’t help making a boob of things is that they are a bunch of tits …
Apologies, Steve. It’s normally SMFS but you got the rant in this time.
£45 for a cotton t-shirt! The slogan should read “This is what a mug looks like.”
Charged to expenses, no doubt
SE – I am prone to a bit of ranting on Sunday mornings when the wife gets a lie in and I’m on toddler-wrangling duty. And Saturday mornings. I’m a grumpy bastard Monday-Friday too.
Four fun sized Mars bars, three cups of coffee, and a sertraline help. Breakfast of champions I tell you.
My rant wasn’t about race, tho. Except tangentially.
My youngest is currently holding on to his walker/play mobile thing, dancing to a groovy electronic rendition of “Old McDonald Had A Farm” for the 86th time in an hour. When I was his age all I had was a pine cone and a box of matches!
Kids these days don’t know they’re born.
More to the point, what does 62p/hr (I assume that $1/hr in reality) buy you in Mauritius vs what your earnings outside the factory would buy? All this ‘OMG, they pay people X pence per hour!!’ stuff never actually tells you what those earnings mean in local terms. It could be on the bread line, it could be a relatively handsome wage.
@Jim – indeed
Theye also rarely explore what happens when hitherto very poor people suddenly get a lot of extra cash (which a sudden pay rise to appease Paul Dacre and/or The Joseph Rowntree Foundation might represent).
They could ask the people of Nauru.
I don’t think many of the women the Fawcett Society really supports live in Rotherham, or Rochdale
Lucky it was Mauritius: had it been Mauritania they would have used slave labour.
The objective of progressive politics is to make progressives feel better. Actually helping someone is not required.
Steve – well done for writing the perfect response.
This ballsup reminds me of the #bringbackourgirls bollocks.
Lets all stand around preening in our moral superiority. Did it save a single girl from those Boko Haram scumbags? Not a one…
Steve: “I have a new T-shirt idea for The Fawcett Society: “THIS IS WHAT A SPINELESS, PATHETIC COWARD LOOKS LIKE”.”
THIS!
the weird thing is how Elle magazine is working with Whistles and The Fawcett Society. Elle are basically still old fashioned dresses and make up stuff. You won’t get much writing by Germaine Greer and Jeanette Winterson in there.
I’m guessing that Whistles are doing some Hollywood Accounting on the profits from the t-shirts.
Looks like I’m in the wrong business. The t-shirts I’ve sold have been better quality, much better design and less than half the price of these t-shirts retail.
I really don’t want to think about the Fawcett Society’s boobs.
Tim Newman,
I don’t think I’ve seen anything more representative of the decline of British politics than Clegg and Miliband wearing those t-shirts. From Empire to this in less than 100 years…
The Conservatives should do as much as possible to get those photos printed. There’s jobs where wearing a t-shirt suits the image – rock star, fashion designer but when it comes to jobs like accountancy, politics and airline pilots, people at least want you to wear a shirt. They want to know that you’re a serious person, and judge people on how they look.
@Stigler
“the weird thing is how Elle magazine is working with Whistles and The Fawcett Society. Elle are basically still old fashioned dresses and make up stuff. You won’t get much writing by Germaine Greer and Jeanette Winterson in there.”
I suspect it’s all about positioning and ‘the narrative’.
Sooner or later (may have happened, I don’t pay attention) the loonier end of feminism is going to have a real pop at fashion mags, not just because anorexia etc (my daughters are naturally that skinny, and suffer from constantly being asked if they have eating disorders) but because why are women parading themselves around in fancy clothes when third world people are starving/patriarchy/Thatcher etc.
So getting behind this crap maybe helps lance a developing boil.
Thankfully I’ve not seen all the pictures – the mental image of Harman in a T shirt provoked a dry boak* reaction from me.
* – Scottish for gagging but not actually vomiting
To a feminist with a snese of humour failure the comments on here must look like trolling.
But given the jocular nature of the comments we need a less severe word. I suggest drolling. I’d be happy to be accused of being a droll.
SE>
“Just pendantry because I realise you are taking the piss rather than being serious, it may be called nationalist, possibly, even protectionist but, as SMFS points out, we are not a racially homogenous culture so, not at all, really.”
Except that the meaning of the word is not restricted to the literal meaning of prejudice against race, at least in modern usage, but arguably also the case going back many decades.
These days, racism definitely includes things like discrimination on grounds of nationality or cultural affinity – so arguably anti-chav jokes are racist, but, you’ll like trolling lefties with this one, so is anti-inherited-wealthism. Whether you think that’s the right word or not, you can see the similarity there, I’m sure.
“To a feminist with a snese of humour failure the comments on here must look like trolling.”
There aren’t any.
I mean they would laugh if they were… say standing beside the Great Grimpen Mire watching a man slowly sink to his death…. but that is about it for feminist “humour”.
The very idea of buying sweat from a shop disgusts me.
So where do you buy it from? The artesanal, small-batch stuff is so expensive.
All this Comments jollity on the back of a Mail “exposé” that turns out to be junk?
http://hiyamaya.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/this-is-what-development-looks-like/