Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ms Tweedale, 58, is said to wear low-cut black corsets, fishnet tights with high heels and a gothic choker with a pentagram when she attends the office

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a big problem here: Every kind of clothing is “fetish clothing” to someone.

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Phwoar! Most of the people in this hospital are wearing nurse’s uniforms! Kinky!”

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah a nice pair of jeans are absolutely a form of fetish gear and a traditional one no less

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And how!

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  • flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are people with a raincoat fetish.

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• rah@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “wear low-cut black corsets, fishnet tights with high heels and a gothic choker with a pentagram”

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My friend would like to know where, exactly, this is, so a complaint may be filed.

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surely this goes without saying.

  What’s wrong with people nowadays? Standards are just dropping across the board

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like before I can form an opinion, I need to see the outfit in question. There is a description, but it’s not very detailed and not exactly from a neutral source. As described though, it sounds like she was dressed like Dr. Frankenfurter, with a choker instead of a pearl necklace. Which… Yea, that’s not a workplace outfit for a civil servant.

  But then again, it could be tame as hell. I have no idea. Because despite writing an article about it, apparently a photo is just too much to expect from modern journalism.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s probably about lingerie, bandage, butt plugs, etc.

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  • Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There really is no plausible ‘fetish outfit’ that could possibly under any circumstances be appropriate for work at the Civil Service.

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It does make me wonder if they know what fetish gear looks like but going by the photo of the Baroness, I doubt she’d recognised it if it walked up to her in the street and asked for her safe word.

  Depending on the dress code, this is, at best, an HR issue but it seems like the Tory press are trying to make it a culture wa

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On TERF Island, clothing not corresponding to one’s biological sex is legally considered “fetish gear”

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  • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, a nice normal American that loves judging other countries without realising what the fuck is going on locally.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People say TERF island as if when you leave Britain everywhere is ok with trans people. It’s a bit of a stupid buzzword.

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• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my friends in the civil service said they have this kind of internal linkedin/facebook thing that virtually no one uses. However they have some kind of craigslist style functionality and she saw someone trying to sell used sex toys on there.

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  • kralk@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mr skinner and Mrs krebapple were in the closet making babies and I saw the baby and it looked at me

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it Yammer because even the IT department refused to use it.

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That name rings a bell but would need to double check with my friend. She said it was basically a ghost town with only a few really eccentric posts.

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• wren@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t have a telegraph account - someone summarise?

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here's an archive of the page.

    Ms Tweedale, 58, is said to wear low-cut black corsets, fishnet tights with high heels and a gothic choker with a pentagram when she attends the office.

    She's trans and her attire led to a minister stating that kind of "fetish gear" cannot be worn at work. Others working with her say it's highly inappropriate and unprofessional. That's the gist of it.

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    • rah@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She’s trans

      Is that relevant?

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll go one better. Here is the archive.

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• kralk@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Response to Mail on Sunday’s attack on trans activist

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• tombruzzo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good luck enforcing this. My regular belt is a hobble belt I bought from a fetish gear maker. I’d be in the office technically able to whip out a leather restraint at a moment’s notice.

  I hope people in her office start wearing their own freaky gear in solidarity

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• Streamwave@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I cannot believe this even needed to be clarified in the first place

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• rah@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paywall

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