Another Collective Shout victory Racing Queensland has assured Collective Shout that the Gold Coast Turf Club’s plans to race 150 women – described as ‘fillies and mares’ – in bikinis from barrier stalls December 4, will not go ahead. I wrote about the Club’s plan to parade women like animals Wednesday. Collective Shout covered it […]
Bonds withdraws all ‘bra like’ products in girls sizes 6 and 8 A Victory for people power. Only three days ago, Collective Shout started a campaign against the latest bra product for girls aged 6. ‘More Bonds Bras for little girls’ can be read here This sparked three days of activism from our members and […]
Published today on Sexism: alive and well in Australia Virginia Haussegger is right to lament the status of women in other countries and the brutalities and indignities they suffer daily. But attitudes towards women in our own so-called liberated western democracy desperately need an overhaul as well. While I frequently write about the objectification of […]
Why would Woolworths associate itself with the objectification of women? It’s not news that Lynx’s revels in degrading representations of women to promote its body spray. I’ve talked about the company’s ‘Spray More Get More’ campaign which features women transforming into out-of-control-sex-maniacs the second they smell Lynx on a man. Collective Shout has also exposed the sexism […]
“I won’t be buying Lovable underwear again” Melissa is another to write to Lovable to complain about its current Jennifer Hawkins ad campaign. What she has written is so important that I’m reprinting it from the Collective Shout website, where she posted her letter yesterday. How much more evidence does Lovable need that its current […]
Transcript of ABC’s Q&A in which precious minutes are wasted as I try to explain the term ‘skanky hos’ Melinda Tankard Reist: What would have been controversial would have been if Tony Abbott had said: “I want my daughters to be skanky hos.” Then you might have had a controversy. Satyajit Das: Sorry, what is […]
