This story in The Telegraph covers a battle looming amongst Marks & Spencer (a UK retailer) shareholders concerning M&S’s surcharge on bras of size DD and above.
In summary, there is a bunch of lunatics calling themselves Busts 4 Justice who cannot accept that the extra material required to make a larger bra warrants an extra charge. Basically, they’re a bunch of feminists… and all that that implies from the perspectives of intelligence and reason.
Ever since I can remember, if I want an XL (or XXL, or XXXL, depending on the system used – usually, a mere L wouldn’t fit a Barbie Doll) T-shirt then I am accustomed to pay more for it than if I bought an S (which probably would need a magnifying glass to see properly). The same goes for underwear, trousers, shirts, suits, and so on.
Why do these idiots have to assume that brassieres are any different?
Ah, yes! They are feminists – so although anything which is pro-male is evil incarnate, it is completely acceptable for things to be pro-female… and the more anti-male the pro-female propaganda is the more acceptable it will be to these morons.
Can you imagine what small people might start doing if they twig that they’re paying the same as women with big breasts and tiny brains?
I also heard on the radio at lunchtime that this organisation has bought shares in M&S, and it plans to disrupt the next shareholder meeting with its protests (heaven knows what form these will take).
Edit: Seems like a lot of people are actually interested in Busts 4 Justice’s website – it’s actually a Facebook page and you can find it here.
They’ve got 15,500 members, and I can’t help wondering how many of them are men. But I will point out to them all that although M&S appears to have scrapped the surcharge (i.e. it is now making a loss/less profit on the larger sizes at a time of recession – well done ladies), it has done so not because Busts 4 Justice is right but because it wants to avoid the bad publicity childish behaviour at a shareholder meeting would create.
Que sera!