I spoke with Ben Fordham on Radio 2GB yesterday about the repeat corporate offender Honey Birdette, the sex shop masquerading as a lingerie store in family shopping malls. We at Collective Shout have been campaigning against Honey Birdette for a number of years. Now the pressure is on Westfield to act. The company’s Corporate Values state it will “act, at all times, as a leading corporate citizen in adhering to applicable laws and meeting the community’s expectations regarding corporate behaviour“. It can’t claim to care about corporate social responsibility, to be a leading corporate citizen meeting the community’s expectations if it doesn’t. (Interview starts 12:50 minutes into the program).
Melbourne father of two young children, Kenneth Thor, launched this petition calling on Westfield CEO’s to take action. There are now over 32,0000 signatures. Please add your name so that Westfield is called to account for promoting sexist culture in its shopping centres.
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No Standards evident.
Not ok for women to be confronted with such images.
Even worse for children to have no choice -in your face.
So over feral approach to selling products.
Abuse and assaults on women are the result of top of mind thoughts stimulation etc.
No Excuses justify such portrayal of women.
Advertising Standards bodies( groups of people with conflict of interest overriding the common good) are extremely out of touch with how women want to Portrayed.
Time they start listening.
Plenty of women don’t have their views recorded.
And there is widespread anger.
I wrote to the manager of my local Westfield about this – got a promising email the first time. After the next offence and email I got nothing back. Not buying it. Westfield has lost myself and my daughters as customers.
Westfield please stop the promotion of the sexualisation of women!
I was walking through Westfield on a rare shopping visit with my 10yo daughter when we passed one of these shops. She was shocked and said “Mum, was IS that place? It’s just WRONG!”. Now if my 10yo can figure that out why can’t the management of Westfield??? You either help us to raise young women in a safe and supportive environment, or you don’t. What will you choose?