Tag: collective shout

ASB upholds complaints against Lynx ‘Rules of Rugby’ ad

Unilever complains Collective Shout encouraged complaints The Advertising Standards Board have upheld complaints against Lynx’s sexist ‘Rules of Rugby’ advertisement. The advertisement was supposedly created to educate men about the rules of Rugby Union. It is of course just another excuse for Lynx to objectify women. It would appear that objectification is Lynx’s one and […]

Stop making sex objects of women and kids

In this guest post, Melinda Tankard Reist calls on advertisers to stop sexualising kids and objectifying women The ad industry has the nasty habit of using self-regulation to its commercial advantage, exploiting women’s bodies in the process. Corporate social responsibility is sacrificed on an altar of sexism. Inadequacies in the system include a weak code […]

Collective Shout activists tell Diva to Bin the Bunny

Collective Shout activists who hand-delivered our 6000+ signature petition  to a number of stores over the weekend, met with a mixed reception from Diva staff. We had wanted to make sure Diva knew that thousands of people had signed our Change.org petition calling on Diva to stop selling the Playboy brand to little girls through […]

Diva: ‘Perhaps the most blatant example of consumer disregard we’ve come across’

 ‘Out of control…outdated damage control tactics…’ Fantastic post from Corporate Failings on Monday about Diva’s spectacular mis-management of the outrage over the company’s pimping of a major brand of the global sex industry to little girls.  Why Diva founder should feel very sad In an earlier post the same day, Corporate Failings asked ‘Has Diva lost […]

Playboy wants your tween

Why is the Playboy empire peddling its bunny logo to the middle-school set? The Playboy brand has come a long way. Playmates now samba proudly on family friendly fare like “Dancing With the Stars,” and its empire is the subject of a retro-themed fall drama. But are you ready to let your little girl be […]

DIVA pimps Playboy to girls: Collective Shout calls for boycott

Keep the global brand of the porn industry off our girls – boycott Diva Playboy has been very clever with its marketing, establishing its brand on doona covers, pencil cases, wallets, keyrings, stationery, make-up, youth clothing ranges and even embedded into children’s movies such as Hop. I’ve written about this before. Now DIVA is the […]

Collective Shout win against A Serbian Film: Review Board reverses decision

Film depicting extreme sexual violence now banned On September 14, Collective Shout made a submission to the Classification Review Board, calling for a review of the Classification Board’s April decision to grant the film an R18+ rating. We described scenes of extreme sexual violence against a child and against women. “A Serbian Film contains depictions […]

Tool Shop tools put in their box for objectifying women

Last month Channel 7’s Morning Show asked me to comment on the Tool Shop’s Queensland billboard depicting three women with tools and the wording ‘Imagine All 3 at once? We can…’.  The billboard was clearly intended to treat the women in a sexual way by encouraging fantasies about group sex with them. It also contributed […]

Pornland, hardcore truth, prison porn, don’t buy the t.shirt

Gail Dines on ABC Big Ideas Last month Collective Shout co-hosted with University of NSW, Spinifex Press and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, a standing room only address by Pornland author and US academic Gail Dines. An extract of her address at NSW State Parliament was broadcast this week by ABC Big Ideas. You […]

Cotton On sells violence against women

See this t.shirt? Where do you think we found it? Some niche not well known store specializing in glamourised violence against women motifs for a specialist market into that kind of thing? For order in a surf magazine marketing women in sexually submissive poses to boys? Perhaps through a more risqué on-line t.shirt seller who […]

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