How About?

September 14, 2021 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political, sophistry 10

You just grow up and get over it. Someone says something unpleasant. And now we go straight to the police and legal action?

A transgender woman is suing Sainsbury’s for £2,000 after claiming a store worker pointed at her and said “look at the state of that”.

Really? For cryin’ out loud. It wasn’t very nice, but it’s not exactly the end of the world. People say unpleasant things all the time. There’s an old saying about sticks and stones.

The 68 year old, who “knew” the “derogatory comment” was made about her, reported the “hate incident” to police but due to a “lack of evidence”, no further action was taken by Hampshire Constabulary.

This is an abomination. A derogatory comment should be no business of the police and given that no laws were broken, they should never be involved. The concept of hate incidents is, itself, hateful.

She then wrote a letter about the “totally unacceptable behaviour” of the worker to Simon Roberts, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s.

So a momentary insult that for normal, rational people would have been at most a sharp retort or completely ignored has been blown out of all proportion. I mean, writing to the CEO over something that is utterly trivial. Seems he thought so too.

But after being left dissatisfied by the response she received, Miss Yeomans is now taking the supermarket chain to court for £2,000 in damages for harassment as she believes companies “say they are for equality, but are not in practice”.

Fer chrissakes! Hopefully the court will toss it out and hand Miss Yeomans a bill for their wasted time. This is the only way to stop what is nothing more than vexatious litigation.

Miss Yeomans says she’s experienced six similar incidents over the past four years and on each occasion threatened legal action with the organisations settling with her before any cases came to court.

Ah. A serial vexatious litigant.

In a letter outlining her claim, Miss Yeoman’s said she had suffered sleepless nights and anxiety as a result of the incident outside the Sainsbury’s Local store in the Southsea area of Portsmouth.

It said: “Although the incident has been denied by [Sainsbury’s], it has caused me a great deal of anxiety and sleepless nights resulting a visit to my GP and being prescribed anti depressants.

This is what happens when you give in to narcissism.

10 Comments

  2. OMG what a state this country is in. The permanently offended rule the roost ! To most people transgender people are freaks. There are only two genders – male and female. Born a man you are a man. Born a woman you are a woman. The tail isvwagging the dog now !

  4. If this pantomime ends up in her(?) favour, does this mean thsat Sainsburys, and every other retailer, can then sue any customer who says something derogatory about their product?
    SoT, it appears that a firm of solicitors may be taking this case on, presumably on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis. Just as an aside, I wonder if the firm has an ‘L’ and a ‘D’ in their name?

    • Yes. Most transsexual “women” resemble men in drag. And this “woman” is a perfect example of that.

  6. It won’t go anywhere; that comment won’t be anywhere near the worst s/he’s heard along that bit of Albert Road (about 3 mins walk from here). It’s not rough and violent, but most of the clientele there or in the nearby Tesco/Co-op are not your well-to-do tolerant liberals. All three supermarkets have door security, and the other local co-op is pillaged by druggies on a weekly basis.

  8. Dr Evil, after clicking on the link and having a gander, silk purse out of a pigs ear comes to mind.
    It may think ‘she’ looks lovely, but a quote from Gimme, Gimme, Gimme:
    “Linda, I don’t know what it is that you see when you look in the mirror, but I assure you, it is nothing like what the rest of the world sees”.

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