Red Foo literally won’t be back as a judge on X-Factor

He’s sexist and we know it: Collective Shout campaign called on Foo to be dumped

Collective Shout’s Jas Swilks launched a campaign through Change.org late last year calling on Channel 7 to drop singerand X-Factor judge Red Foo, for his appalling rape culture fuelling song ‘Literally I Can’t’. The Change petition read in part:

RedFoo has just released his new collaboration with Lil Jon, Play-N-Skillz and Enertia McFly ‘; named ‘’Literally, I Can’t.” In the video, a group of sorority girls are harassed and verbally assaulted, simply because they don’t want to drink or engage in certain activities such as ”girl on girl”. The young women are depicted as killjoys and labelled ”bitches” and ”sluts” for refusing to conform to the wishes of the male party goers.

When the women repeatedly make clear that they don’t want to have sex or drink, they are surrounded by a group of rowdy men who shout in their faces: ‘Shut the fk up”. One woman is pushed unwillingly onto the ground while Red Foo films for the porn site ”Redtube”. Other misogynistic lyrics included in the song include:

“You’re annoying b**** because you’re talking”

“Shhh, don’t talk about it be about it. Work it, twerk it and maybe I’ll tweet about it”

“Girl I’m sipping on this drink, trying to see what you got, not hear what you think.”

Issues within the music video/song include:

That men are encouraged to see women only as a form of sexual entertainment

That when a woman says “no’’, she is to be ridiculed and harassed

That the video encourages a culture in which campus/college assault is acceptable

That women’s right to refuse to participate is ’annoying’

That with the right amount of pressure a woman will always give in

RedFoo is a judge on Australia’s talent show, X Factor, a position which requires him to mentor contestants – often, young women. His offensive and misogynistic portrayal of women in his video clips and performances, disqualifies him from such a role.