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Posted: **Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:02 pm**

A safety poster featuring a picture of a woman's bottom has been pulled from railway stations across London amid accusations of "sexism".

Train operator Southeastern was forced to remove the advert from 70 sites after it sparked complaints from two Labour politicians.

MPs Teresa Pearce and Sadiq Khan described the use of the image as "appalling" and "ridiculous".

Southeastern said it now recognised how it "may cause offence".

The poster reads: "Good for sitting, squeezing, and shaking, don't bruise it. Please take extra care in wet weather conditions. Love every bit of you."

Tooting MP Mr Khan said the advert had "no place" on London's transport network.

Meanwhile Ms Pearce, who represents Erith and Thamesmead, demanded an investigation into how it was approved.

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2015 2:03 am**

(a) how do they know it's a woman's bum?

(2) the caboose is no use

Posted: **Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:04 am**

I don't find anything particularly sexist about it; if you're going to do an advert warning people about falling on their ass, it's going to picture the ass of one sex or the other.

But why put sexism in quotation marks? If there were accusations of sexism, they stand on their own or not without the necessity of editorializing by punctuation.

Posted: **Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:19 am**

I guess it was just a bum message.

I'm glad they're getting to the bottom and cleaning it up.

yrs,
rubato

Posted: **Sun Oct 18, 2015 2:22 pm**

Assinine.

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