Comments on: Let’s agree to disagree

By: Sara - Darling Lovely Life editor

Sara - Darling Lovely Life editor — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:33:30 +0000

Haha yeah I totally get that, I think that’s a big part of it. But, for example, a lot of these opinions are fairly innocuous. ALSO I agree that brands shouldn’t be offensive or rude towards groups of people but also think that your brand has to have a personality. For example, Lush often gets behind causes. The animal testing awareness stuff is great and other stuff I don’t always agree with BUT I think it’s really cool that they’re a brand trying to be more than just a vehicle to sell products. Similarly I’ve seen clothing brand that make a feminist statement, or brands in the States making pro-equality statements and I always admire and respect it. I think our brands lead our culture in a big way so I reckon it’s time for business owners to be brave and get off the fence. As a wedding photographer, if you put your personality and beliefs out there in a positive way, for every couple you’ll put off, you’ll attract another likeminded couple who’s far more likely to book you :) Just my two cents. And thanks for sparing the vegetarians, we have a tough enough time without things like iron and Nandos ;) xx

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:10:25 +0000

I think it comes down to several reasons – 1. That the internet is more anonymous than real life and there’s a risk of trolling, some of it quite nasty. 2. Our society is very PC now and a consequence of that is that we’re scared of offending anyone and 3. If we’re on social media to promote our brands we want to protect those brands because if we do voice an opinion online we have to be face issues 1&2 and risk damaging the brand. For example, if I put on my twitter feed “loooving my rare steak right now. So glad I’m not a sucky quinoa eating vegetarian!!!” That immediately offends and alienates vegetarians and then they would be less likely to book me to photograph their wedding, plus I’d be seen as opinionated and obnoxious.

I did feel a little shame last weekend when the yesallwomen hashtag was trending, as I really wanted to show support but didn’t want to get harangued and sent obscene tweets and death threats, which a lot of posters reported as receiving. I know life isn’t all vanilla ombré frosting and pink peonies, but if you’re online due to business then you really have to think before you write something that could come back to haunt you later.

Ps: no vegetarians or quinoa were harmed during the making of this post

By: Samantha

Samantha — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:43:22 +0000

Totally agree love ;)

By: Nikki @KnotsAndKisses

Nikki @KnotsAndKisses — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:07:04 +0000

Haha .. I think I might fall into camp two ;-) I will promise not to apologise for disagreeing in the future .. my other half is always telling me off for saying sorry constantly! x