So the Herald Sun are running with a story about some dame who was knocked back on a mobile phone:

Stay-at-home mum told by Vodafone: no phone for you (full article)

STAFF at a major telco company refused to sell a mobile phone to a stay-at-home mum because she didn’t have a real job.

Lyndal Fair, 36, a mother of three, said she was shocked and embarrassed when staff at a Vodafone store told her they didn’t sell phones to full-time mums.

Staff instead suggested she ask her husband to buy the phone for her under his own name.

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Ms Fair is a full-time homemaker for husband Michael and their three children – Hannah, 8, Nicholas, 6, and Gabrielle, 3.

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“Being a mum is a full-time job and it’s a very hard job – the hardest job you can have – because if you get it wrong, the ramifications for everyone are enormous,” Ms Fair said.

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Ms Fair said she was also angry because the phone she wanted — a BlackBerry Storm — was available only through Vodafone.

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Vodafone spokesman Greg Spears yesterday confirmed the no-housewives rule and said getting a man to buy the phone instead was the quickest fix.

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Eva Cox, of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, said the company should be ashamed. She called on women to boycott Vodafone until it changed the policy.

“They need to be careful that Vodafone don’t get a black ban after this, or a pink ban, if you want to call it that,” Ms Cox said.

Message to Herald Sun: Why the fuck is this news? Next you’ll be reporting that those wacky Mooslims are getting mobile phones!

Message to Lyndal Fair: Fuck off back to the kitchen you stupid fucking retarded cunt. You really have no understanding why you were told you couldn’t enter into a contract, right? Because we’ve already established that you’re a stupid fucking retarded cunt, I’ll try to explain it for you – using words with 2 or less syllables if necessary.

Here we go. Ready? Ok.

Because you do not draw an income from a job, you are unable to enter into a credit arrangement with Vodafone, as per their guidelines.

Was that fucking clear enough, bitch?

You fucking chose to open your legs and fart out three cuntturds, so you deal with the fucking consequences of staying at home in your “full time” position of looking after them.

Also, why the fuck does a self-confessed housewife need a fucking BlackBerry Storm? Looking at the Vodafone website, the starting deal for one is free on a $69/month plan. Based on a 2 year contract, that’s $1656 as a bare minimum you’re expected to repay, which is a fucking lot for someone without any actual income.

And again, I reiterate: Why do you need a fucking Blackberry? Check your fucking emails while at Coles? Surf teh intartubes while sitting around drinking lattes and gossipping with your equally retarded friends? Taking a look at the specs of the handset, there’s really nothing that it does that can’t be achieved on a standard handset on a lower-priced plan.

I’ve spent many years working in the retail mobile phone industry, and this is fucking standard procedure. No job generally means no fucking mobile phone. As a retailer we lost out too if you fucked off and didn’t pay your bills, so it was in our interest not to cater to the unemployed. Furthermore, what happens if you leave your hubby (probably him divorcing you for being completely fucking retarded) and you can’t pay the bills?

For various reasons I’m beginning to hate Vodafone as much as the next person, but I’m siding with them on this. Vodafone don’t HAVE to give you a phone if they choose not to. And they offered a solution: Get a MAN to help out. Fuck this stupid retarded cunt.

Also, what is this bullshit you claim that being a “mum” is the hardest job in the world? I’m sure other jobs, such as being an airline pilot or a brain surgeon are a LOT fucking harder, and have more “ramifications” if they fuck up. So fuck you.

I also love the quote from Eva Cox at the end, suggesting a boycott (or “pink ban”) of Vodafone. Being 70 years old, she’s probably much better off being shoved in a nursing home somewhere rather than spouting her feminist skank bullshit on topics she’s nowhere near qualified to discuss.

Then Today Tonight got involved in the issue, and even managed a quote from another Women’s Electoral Lobby moron:

Vodafone knocks back mum (full article)

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Dr Linda Hancock from the Women’s Electoral Lobby is shocked this policy exists.

“We’re going back 50 or 60 years where a woman has to ask her husband to buy her a phone when she’s working,” she said.

“It’s outrageous.”

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If we went back 50 or 60 years mobile phones weren’t around, you stupid bitch.