Current Events > Virgin trains offend femminists with sexist tweet.

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Virgin Trains have apologised after responding to a complaint about sexism by being even more sexist.

Passenger Emily Cole says her perfectly reasonable customer service query was dismissed by a Virgin Trains manager who called her honey. The passenger said the encounter was hideously patronising and made her shudder.

To make the entire thing worse, when Emily reported the incident to Virgin Trains on Twitter, whichever genius was manning the social media account asked if she would prefer pet or love next time?

Emily responded: Wonderful to see that @virgin_trainsEC take complaints of rude and misogynistic behaviour seriously. Stunned.

Virgin Trains have now deleted their offensive reply and apologised for the entire embarrassing gaffe.
Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

A statement from the firm says: We apologise unreservedly for this tweet and any offence that it may have caused. To avoid causing more offence we have deleted the original post.

Emily, who was on a busy train from Edinburgh to Kings Cross in London, told Metro.co.uk: They told us theyd all made a mistake and we had to move to try and find seats with all our luggage in the packed train.

The first person to check my ticket was very abrasive. His response to my explaining the situation (politely and honestly) and that I wanted to complain was you go ahead honey. In the context and given his aggressive tone I can only assume he didnt like being (politely!) challenged by a woman it felt like a punch in the face.

I tweeted Virgin and their response was patronising and belittling just the behaviour I was complaining about. And would they tweet that to a guy? Nope.

Full Article: http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/02/virgin-trains-apologise-unreservedly-replying-sexism-complaint-sexism-7197063/




Jeez
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

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UnfairRepresent posted...

Passenger Emily Cole says her perfectly reasonable customer service query was dismissed by a Virgin Trains manager who called her honey. The passenger said the encounter was hideously patronising and made her shudder.

So apologize and put this to rest

UnfairRepresent posted...

To make the entire thing worse, when Emily reported the incident to Virgin Trains on Twitter, whichever genius was manning the social media account asked if she would prefer pet or love next time?

Uh oh

Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

Hmm...
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Can you please read the post after you copy and paste it?
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Axiom posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Passenger Emily Cole says her perfectly reasonable customer service query was dismissed by a Virgin Trains manager who called her honey. The passenger said the encounter was hideously patronising and made her shudder.

So apologize and put this to rest

UnfairRepresent posted...

To make the entire thing worse, when Emily reported the incident to Virgin Trains on Twitter, whichever genius was manning the social media account asked if she would prefer pet or love next time?

Uh oh

Loool. Who gives a fuck. Maybe call her hoe next time.
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Anyone else come in to this topic confused about trains that hadn't had intercourse yet? Just me?
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Ranting Nord posted...

Anyone else come in to this topic confused about trains that hadn't had intercourse yet? Just me?

I actually thought it meant a group of virgins.
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SpiritSephiroth posted...

Ranting Nord posted...

Anyone else come in to this topic confused about trains that hadn't had intercourse yet? Just me?

I actually thought it meant a group of virgins.

I actually thought that he meant "trans" instead of "trains". Not that that title would make too much more sense without context either but still.
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wackyteen posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

Hmm...

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Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

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These people need to toughen the fuck up. LMAO
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Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

RIP

It makes me laugh that someone has been offended by this.

Oh noooo someone called you honey, how sexist...
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pieisthebest posted...

Oh noooo someone called you honey, how sexist...

ermm...
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Reposted this on LL for attention
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I hate terms of endearment from total strangers. Its patronizing and annoying. I wouldnt go on social media to whine about it, but their response was awful.

rhklce posted...

It makes me laugh that someone has been offended by this.

Literally made her shudder, being called 'honey.'
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im confused

was there more to the person calling her honey or was that it?

honey doesn't seem like a bad thing to call someone....it means they are sweet :(

A man lost 8 stone? Holy shit that's a lot of stone?
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Romes187 posted...

im confused

was there more to the person calling her honey or was that it?

honey doesn't seem like a bad thing to call someone....it means they are sweet :(

According to her (and only her), her complaint was 'dismissed.' No mention of what that complaint actually was, or what, other than 'honey,' the manager said.
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Romes187 posted...

im confused

was there more to the person calling her honey or was that it?

honey doesn't seem like a bad thing to call someone....it means they are sweet :(

Yeah that was pretty much it. Then crybaby feminist had to make it a shitstorm from absolutely nothing and someone was a smart ass back to her stupid reaction.

Idk how many times i'm waited on at a restaurant or checking out as a gas station and i'm called "hon" or "Sweetie" from a female server or clerk. I didn't throw my hands up and cry about being called anything but sir and call it sexual harassment. People need to shut the fuck up already, how people act these days is getting beyond pathetic.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

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Liberals at it again.
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tote_all posted...

Oh, come on. It is absolutely sexist and patronizing.

So the cashier at the gas station this morning who let me go with 'have a great day, hun!' was actually not being polite, but instead being sexist and patronizing?
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It was probably some posh English guy who she talked to. And she is probably exaggerating
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oh noooooooooooooooooo
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darkjedilink posted...

tote_all posted...

Oh, come on. It is absolutely sexist and patronizing.

So the cashier at the gas station this morning who let me go with 'have a great day, hun!' was actually not being polite, but instead being sexist and patronizing?

Yes

You need to tweet @ the gas station and use the typical buzzwords and you'll be viral in eight seconds.
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Hilarious

Romes187 posted...

im confused

was there more to the person calling her honey or was that it?

honey doesn't seem like a bad thing to call someone....it means they are sweet :(

Some people in this topic are going to be obtuse as hell as has already been proven but it can indeed be patronising depending on the context it is used.

Just like "cupcake" or "kid" can be patronising and is often used on this very board purposely to do so.
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it was probably a gay guy that said it...oh, i hope it was and he comes forward and accuses her of homophobia. the delicious ironing...
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Twin3Turbo posted...

Romes187 posted...

im confused

was there more to the person calling her honey or was that it?

honey doesn't seem like a bad thing to call someone....it means they are sweet :(

Some people in this topic are going to be obtuse as hell as has already been proven but it can indeed be patronising depending on the context it is used.

Just like "cupcake" or "kid" can be patronising and is often used on this very board purposely to do so.

Hell an actual woman posted in this topic saying she wouldn't like it. Anyone with basic social skills knows that sounds patronizing to women

Pretty sure she's just havin' a laugh, m8. A good 'ol giggle, if you will.
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Fair. Don't patronize female customers by taking a derisive tone and calling them honey.

Axiom posted...

Hell an actual woman posted in this topic saying she wouldn't like it. Anyone with basic social skills knows that sounds patronizing to women

The problem is that in general:

>CE
>Basic social skills
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Let me put it like this: Plenty of women in their jobs have called me 'honey,' and it never once bothered me. It's meant to be endearing, but I guess it's different down south.
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Like anything, it's dependent on context. It probably was dismissive.

I don't know why that means there needs to be a crusade.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Man lost eight stone after ditching daily diet of 5,000 calories and five Red Bulls

Glad to see this is second comment
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Imagine letting something like that bother you. Maybe re-evaluate your life if you can afford to be offended by being called honey.
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why do people suddenly forget that context exists in situations like this? "oh man the person at the store called me hun yesterday and i didn't cry about it'....yea, the word itself isn't being called a black and white sexist word...but certain situations where its used can be seen as sexist depending on the...CONTEXT...

...i don't know how it was said to her so i can't really say if her reaction to this is warranted or not...their response to it doesn't help their case.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

why do people suddenly forget that context exists in situations like this? "oh man the person at the store called me hun yesterday and i didn't cry about it'....yea, the word itself isn't being called a black and white sexist word...but certain situations where its used can be seen as sexist depending on the...CONTEXT...

...i don't know how it was said to her so i can't really say if her reaction to this is warranted or not...their response to it doesn't help their case.

Because we don't know the full context of what was said. According to the story she was called 'honey,' and that was it.
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M_Live posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

To make the entire thing worse, when Emily reported the incident to Virgin Trains on Twitter, whichever genius was manning the social media account asked if she would prefer pet or love next time?

Definitely really shitty of them, but I admittedly got a laugh out of the response.

This. You know it's wrong, but the bluntness of it it is hilarious.
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