Don’t buy from these companies at Xmas! Collective Shout releases annual ‘crossed off’ list of corporate offenders
Cross’em off your Xmas list 2014 As published at Collective Shout It’s that time of year again! With the Christmas season upon us, retailers are taking it up a notch competing for your business. Now is the time to remember the companies who objectified women and sexualized girls to sell products and services. They do […]
Corporate sexist offenders: Cross ’em off your Xmas list
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when companies ramp up their advertising in order to compete for your Christmas dollar. There is nowhere you can go without companies placing their product and logo in your face. Now is the time to recall which companies used sexploitation to sell and promote their […]
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 […]
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 […]