I never thought I would see this in a newsagency the customer said with a smile today. She then showed the soap to her shopping companion who listed some people they could give the soap to.
It made my day for it showed the tactical counter placement being noticed and gave us another customer who will not think of us as being traditional.
There is no future in being a traditional newsagency.
Yo customer you bitch you certainly do a lot of shit.
You wouldn’t say that to customer. Why would you sell them that.
If that is the future I am glad I am a traditional newsagent.
Glenn the soap is more humorous than the words you have used. Testing the soap at the counter is part of an on-going commitment to pursuing change. each to their own I say. Let’s check in in five years and see how traditional is doing.
Sorry I meant traditional values like not calling women bitches.
If in five years that value is not important to the community / market and they demand on being reffered to as bitches and niggas and every other terrible term that seems to be ok, I will gladly close the door and do some other shit.
Glenn I think you are choosing one interpretation of the term bitches that is not intended for this product. Bitches, in this situation, is meant as a good thing, representing strong, fierce women and men – who get things done. It is used in a gender neutral way and not meant to demean.
Language has changed. The tea bitch today does not have the singular meaning it had even ten years ago.
Serious question, would you sell a product that had “Nigga” on it?
Because your argument could be used for that word too.
No Glenn and for a simple reason – that word remains disgusting today. Bitches, on the other hand, for many but not all, does not have the same meaning.
According to your values. The same moral judgement I and traditionalists believe that calling women bitches is disgusting.
Glenn I don’t call women bitches and this product is not using it in that vein. However, everyone has the right to see things through their eyes.
I’ve always considered the insults Bitch(es) and arsehole(s) the male and female equivalents of the same personality trait. Though as bitch is a purely female term but everone has an arsehole its easy to fix the obvious sexism in the term bitch, we can all be arseholes.
Glenn as you seem to have a problem with this I promise to only refer to you as an Arsehole from this day forth.
As to weather “Bitches get things done” I’ve had a few Kelpies in my time and yep they do. The female Kelpie is without doubt more loyal and less prone to distraction than the male.
Didn’t know that newsagents are the morality police otherwise we wouln’t be selling playboy, the picture, people, dna etc.
I’m just a retailer(and I don’t consider us to be an agent) selling things to the consumer, they make the choice if they buy it or not.
Yeah sometimes our morality trumps being ‘just a retailer’ http://www.newsagencyblog.com.au/2016/05/13/is-this-news-on-the-front-page-of-the-herald-sun/
Glenn you are reading things into the post you link to that are not there. I posed a question is all.
Some of the more mature generation, who are not exposed to the changes to language being brought about by the younger generation, would not understand that the new meaning being used by some of the youth of today is not at all about de-meaning women, rather it is a term that can be used for both sexes, by both sexes!
I’ve heard it used as a humorous compliment for a partner/friend who does in fact, ‘get things done’.
Even if some customers misinterpret the new meaning, I can easily imagine at lot will still get a laugh out of it as the old meaning. If you get my drift. I can see both sides so can enjoy a double laugh.
Well done Mark, very funny. I know just who I would buy one for….. 🙂
As a 28 year old female I find that soap hilarious and honestly ‘bitches’ would be one of the nicer terms my friends and I would greet each other with. It’s certainly not being used inappropriately in this situation. More offensive are the ridiculous articles in ‘Women’s’ magazines suggesting what women my age should eat, wear and do in order to bag a man. But hey I’m not going to stop selling those, nor should this soap be an issue.
Glenn you say you are glad to be a “traditional” newsagent if by that you mean one stuck in the past well one thing is for sure your chances of long term survival will be severely limited
Mark Richardson. What a bitchy statement.