‘Shine your light by taking a stand, not by taking part. It’s not too late’ US supergroup Switchfoot will be performing and signing posters at City Beach Queen Street store in Brisbane this afternoon. While band members are at it with the pen and the posters, we’d like them to sign our Change.org petition calling […]
“Sexualisation” has become a much-debated issue in recent years, and a noticeable feature is the assumption that feminists who oppose sexual objectification are generating a “moral panic.” Ever since sociologist Stanley Cohen introduced the term in 1972, it has been used as a shorthand way of critiquing conservatives for inventing another “problem” in order to […]
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 […]
War of Words Christine Jackman, The Weekend Australian, June 04, 2011 THIS much Nina Funnell knows about the man who held a box-cutter blade to her throat on an autumn’s evening in May 2007. She knows he had an olive complexion. She knows he had bushy eyebrows and a five o’clock shadow. She knows – […]
The General Pants Company considers it perfectly acceptable to make its staff declare a love for sex, essentially advertising their sexual availability in the blatant three-word statement. It gives customer service a whole new meaning. Staff have been turned into walking billboards for their own objectification. We will take our pants off for General Pants. […]
The fetishisation of the female backside reached royal heights this week with the global worship of Pippa Middleton’s bum. The frenzied prostration before the bottom of HRH Catherine Middleton’s younger sister and bridesmaid highlights anew the objectification of women deeply entrenched in our culture. This in the Daily Mail: Many women admired her dress, but […]
Collective Shout makes a case for change that puts women and girls ahead of corporate profits Here’s two recent submissions (here and here) Collective Shout made to Federal Government inquiries into outdoor advertising and to an examination of the classification system. On April 4 I appeared before the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and […]
Return to school special at Melbourne sex shop Blackboard, schoolbooks, pencils, apple. You associate these things with children right? Children in classrooms, children learning, children bringing an apple for the teacher. Not the sort of things you would usually associate with a sex shop. The “Love Play” adult store in St Kilda, Melbourne, has no […]
If Playboy isn’t porn what is? Today a guest blog post by Clive Hamilton, Australian author, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and a contributor to Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls. Here Clive takes on Dymocks Bookstore for selling Playboy and makes […]
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 […]
