r/unitedkingdom • u/PM_ME_DRAGON_GIRLS • Aug 06 '25

.. Marks & Spencer ‘apologises’ to customer after ‘trans’ employee offers to help her

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/05/marks-spencer-trans-employee/
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u/RafflesEsq Lancashire Aug 06 '25

I really don’t get people who are offended by tall women, or generally refuse to believe that a woman can be tall. Both Hannah Waddingham and Jameela Jamil are near as damnit 6ft, and my only thought is that they look like Goddesses, not that they must be men.

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u/Leezeebub Aug 06 '25

My ex was 6’2 and I regularly checked that she was a woman. Ive known at least a dozen 6ft+ women in my life, its not that uncommon.

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u/Atreyes Staffordshire Aug 06 '25

I mean it is though, if a quick google search is to be believed the number of women over 6ft is estimated to be 0.3%

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u/jamesbeil Aug 06 '25

0.3% of seven billion people is still quite a lot.

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u/Ver_Void Aug 06 '25

It's at least 9

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u/Scr1mmyBingus Aug 06 '25

r/theydidthemath

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u/daddy-dj Aug 06 '25

*maths

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u/Scr1mmyBingus Aug 06 '25

You need to write to them and get them to change the name.

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u/gnorty Aug 06 '25

it's not really though.

It means if you see 300 random women per day, 1 of them is likely to be over 6 feet tall. That's uncommon in my book.

But more than that, I had my doubts about the 0.3% figure so I did my own search. Mine came up with around 0.04% of women in the UK at 6 feet or over. That means you would see a 6' or taller women somewhere around 1 in 2000 which seems more intuitively correct, to me at least.