We will continue to #boycottWestfield Despite 58,000 signatures on a change.org petition to its CEOs, a national day of boycott held Friday, a deluge of phone calls, emails and social media posts, and significant risk of loss of reputation and brand damage, Westfield continue to absolve itself of responsibility for the advertising behaviour of tenant […]
Honey Birdette stores are not a powerful look for women Susie O’Brien November 13, 2017 WHAT are “pleasure parlours” packed with raunchy lingerie, sex toys and bondage items such as whips, paddles, bridles and harnesses doing in the middle of mainstream shopping centres? I don’t blame one Melbourne father for objecting this week to the […]
Time to act on Honey Birdette’s repeat offences 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 […]
MTR on 2GB with Ben Fordham Radio host Ben Fordham interviewed me today about a Barbie Webcam he’d found in an electronics store. I argue that a webcam marketed to little girls is one more weapon in the corporate arsenal to groom girls for a lifetime of seeing themselves as on display in a culture […]
Here’s an interesting discovery we made yesterday. We already knew of course that Hooters restaurant exploited the ‘sex appeal’ of its staff, dressing them in body hugging ‘uniforms’ and training them to treat sexist jokes and innuendo as just part of the job. We already knew that even the AFL found Hooters sponsorship of a […]
