Zoo didn’t deserve my commendation says Girl With a Satchel Interesting exchange yesterday with my friend and fellow blogger Erica Bartle of Girl With a Satchel. Erica sent a tweet re a blog post in which she awarded points to Zoo magazine for including AFL footballer Brendan Fevola – he of the leaked Lara Bingle […]
What’s entertaining about women in lingerie hanging by their necks on chains? What’s artful about images of drugged, unconscious women about to be sexually assaulted? Nothing. It’s misogyny, graphic and simple. Instead of artistic expression, political and social commentator Zerlina Maxwell described Kanye West’s music video for Monster as “a rape scenario set to a […]
I’ll take mine dead, thanks. Horror porn is not ironic. [Trigger warning for victims of violence] When you look at this image, what do you see? An ambigious, complicated narrative? A post-modern analysis of culture? A man who loves his mothers and sistas? And what about this one? Do you see poetic form? Linear narrative […]
Harvey Norman did the right thing. Myer should follow. Designed by Fifty Fifty Concepts and supplied by Independent Suppliers, Betsy is described as the ‘Sexy bikini babe ultimate bottle opener’. She is ‘hilarious’. Why is this bottle opener sexy, hilarious and the ultimate in bottle openers? Because it works by inserting the bottle into Betsy’s […]
Patty Huntington exposes the company’s porn-style approach to women Patty Huntington over at Frockwriter wrote this blog about American Apparel’s favoured positioning of women in its advertising. Of course American Apparel has a long history of making women’s sexual parts the central focus of its marketing approach. But some of my blog readers may not […]
Record response from company following a few hours of twitter action This is the story about the fastest response from a company I have ever seen. It is also testament to the power of new forms of social media. I was at my desk, (which sounds better than saying ‘I was in bed reading Facebook updates on […]
How we started. Where we’re heading It was a comment about my book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, which sparked the birth of Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation. A contributor, Melbourne writer and blogger Tania Andrusiak (author of Adproofing Your Kids: Raising critical thinkers in a media-saturated world ) described […]
Media Release Objecting to objectification: Collective Shout celebrates a year of wins Collective Shout, a dynamic grassroots campaigning movement against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls, celebrates its first birthday in Brisbane this weekend. Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, was founded to target corporations, advertisers, marketers and media which objectify […]
The backlash against corporate exploitation of women “Women are frequently positioned very differently to men in media. Often shown as passive, vulnerable, scantily clad, headless, and sometimes dead…” Today a guest post from eating disorder prevention specialist and member of Collective Shout’s core team, Lydia Turner. It’s reprinted from the Fierce, Freethinking Fatties blog. In recent […]
Ad Standards Bureau upholds complaints The Advertising Standards Board has upheld complaints against Calvin Klein for billboards suggestive of sexual violence against a woman. The Board received 50 complaints against the ad. I first mentioned the billboards in ‘Sexism: alive and well in Australia’, published on ABC The Drum Unleashed September 29. Last week I […]
Lynx Lodge promo ‘not in keeping with our values’ Last week I exposed the fact that Woolworths was in bed with Lynx in a promotion based on female servitude and sexual objectification. Today Woolworths has announced they’ve broken up. Here’s a letter the grocery corporation sent Collective Shout supporter Jade today: […]
