We’re on a rollercoaster when it comes to the global brand doing business as Victoria’s Secret. First, they got caught up trying to appease the #woke folk, lost a fortune, and reversed course. But now they’ve apologized to a man who wanted to try on a bra at one of their stores.
The crime? They made him wait until all the women were out of the dressing room before letting him in, and it got his panties in a twist.
All hell broke loose this week when a biological male who goes by @Microdragons1 claimed on social media that Victoria’s Secret better change its dressing room rules — or else!
“I went through a thoroughly dehumanizing experience at Victoria’s Secret today due to my status as a trans woman,” @Microdragons1 wrote on Twitter.
“I was trying to find a cute bra at Victoria’s Secret, and they made me wait until every cis woman left the dressing rooms before I could go into just one of them. They even made other cis women wait until I’d had my turn so no cis women would be in any of the 5 other rooms.”
Vic tried to apologize and even asked for a little one-on-one chat, but that social share appears to have outraged more than a few people.
Hey, VS. If you cave to this man who wants to be around women while they’re trying on lingerie, you’d better be prepared to lose the customers who are the main source of your revenue. Women. Women who don’t want men around while they’re in a state of undress. #BigMistake
— Mrs.Doctor Bee KPSS💚🤍😈 (@MrsDrBee) November 29, 2023
The issue continues to be one this site embraced more than a decade ago with someone nicknamed Bob “Bathroom Bill” Perry. Early efforts to pass bathroom bills that would allow either sex to use either restroom with either sex present (based on how they felt about their sexuality at that moment) were met with the appropriate amount of derision and outrage. For what it’s worth, almost everything Bob ran on has come to pass without him. Republican Governor Chris Sununu even signed his bathroom bill wishes into law a few years later.
So, we’ve come a long way, baby. From a Democrat party that trumpeted women’s privacy rights to one that can’t wait to violate them!
Corporations are downright bipolar about it all – Over the summer (missed this one), Vic Secrets had hired Megan Rapinoe to help them take the brand in a new direction, which might have been what inspired @Microdragons1 to try a cute bra on in one of their stores, presumably not one already on a woman in the dressing room.
Can they not see that he’s a weirdo? pic.twitter.com/B70aX3Hwy2
— Binky (@TheOnlyGuru) November 29, 2023
It is a world where creeps, voyeurs, and sexual predators have been given a golden ticket to get their freak on. When a business tries to protect its customers, someone at corporate feels the need to reach out and touch them ever so gently to prevent the Social Justice Gaystapo from crapping all over their brand.
Then, the normal people take them to the woodshed.
To whom should they listen?
The 1.6 Billion in sales declines after they went from runway angels to hefty chicks and travesties might provide a clue.
