[Ammi]

..if we took away all of the racist/stereotype negative attachments to golliwogs, which there are...if we replaced the ‘display of dolls’ in such a prominent quantity as is reported, with clown dolls or dolls of ‘days gone by’, which could be very ‘creepy’ by nature and would make some feel very uncomfortable, in their display...so would deter from drinking in the pub, surely that would be something the pub owner would consider in losing some potential custom because it’s a business../his livelihood...so he wouldn’t think...oh, I’m going to make a stand with these dolls, I like them very much and you can take them or leave them, you’re jus5 being very PC..and if they offend you, then just don’t come here...so the fact that he’s essentially doing that, is very odd I feel.../..almost like business suicide, to adopt such an adamant stance when his whole business caters to not offending any public..either deliberately or unintentionally...I’m not sure if it’s a family pub or a drinking pub, but if it were me and a child for instance, who felt uncomfortable with a doll../..any doll...I would remove the doll and think I probably wouldn’t put it back again when they had left because it had in some way ‘offended’ or upset...

[Ammi]

...anyway, he was quite possibly approached and encouraged by the news media to help ‘create’ this story, which only serves to cause more divisiveness, when it’s the last thing that is needed in the present day...

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...anyway, he was quite possibly approached and encouraged by the news media to help ‘create’ this story, which only serves to cause more divisiveness, when it’s the last thing that is needed in the present day...

I dunno, I get a strong impression that they sold the story to the press themselves...

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..if we took away all of the racist/stereotype negative attachments to golliwogs, which there are...if we replaced the ‘display of dolls’ in such a prominent quantity as is reported, with clown dolls or dolls of ‘days gone by’, which could be very ‘creepy’ by nature and would make some feel very uncomfortable, in their display...so would deter from drinking in the pub, surely that would be something the pub owner would consider in losing some potential custom because it’s a business../his livelihood...so he wouldn’t think...oh, I’m going to make a stand with these dolls, I like them very much and you can take them or leave them, you’re jus5 being very PC..and if they offend you, then just don’t come here...so the fact that he’s essentially doing that, is very odd I feel.../..almost like business suicide, to adopt such an adamant stance when his whole business caters to not offending any public..either deliberately or unintentionally...I’m not sure if it’s a family pub or a drinking pub, but if it were me and a child for instance, who felt uncomfortable with a doll../..any doll...I would remove the doll and think I probably wouldn’t put it back again when they had left because it had in some way ‘offended’ or upset...

As covered in the bit I added to my post above at the bottom, I think they're clearly trying to cater to a certain customer base, and feel like this is some sort of protest statement.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

As covered in the bit I added to my post above at the bottom, I think they're clearly trying to cater to a certain customer base, and feel like this is some sort of protest statement.

Have you ever been to Grays in Essex?

Id say they have done their marketing well

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Have you ever been to Grays in Essex?

Id say they have done their marketing well

I try not to go too far south of Manchester, I get hives. I think I'm allergic to Westminster.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I try not to go too far south of Manchester, I get hives. I think I'm allergic to Westminster.

...well maybe if you were brave enough to venture to East Anglia, i’d have some rooms ready for you and all the TS people to stay...we’re quite welcoming here, I think..by birth, I’m a Northern gal though, so I do find the local people strange sometimes....

[Ammi]

...mind if you start sneezing then you’re out...I’m quite OCD about stuff like that..

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

As covered in the bit I added to my post above at the bottom, I think they're clearly trying to cater to a certain customer base, and feel like this is some sort of protest statement.

It’s a stuffed toy. We all know what it represents but there are many things to be offended by, such as the use of offensive language and treatment which is much more dangerous. A lot of women get offended by stupid stereotypes such as Barbie dolls, me included, but to ban one and not another shows how society as a whole treats the views of women. Women however are expected to ignore it and get over themselves. It’s just a bit of fun don’t you know.

Then to appease certain religious groups dominated by men women are expected to tolerate women covering themselves in public and everything that represents but yet again women are expected to suck it up. Men self-identifying as women are being given rights that override the rights of women born that way but still women are expected to suck it up. I would say sexism is a bigger problem in the modern world than racism or any other ‘ism’.