Supre must withdraw slogan shirts that sexualise and degrade girls Click here to Sign the petition! Collective Shout has started a petition calling on Supre to withdraw slogan shirts such as “Jingle my bells” and “Big Booty “B*****s.” The petition rapidly accumulated thousands of signatures. Following a news article in Australian Women’s Weekly, Supre issued a […]
From Collective Shout Why you should spend your Christmas dollar elsewhere You’re about to be bombarded. Bombarded with junk mail, TV, radio and outdoor advertising all competing for your Christmas dollar. Before you purchase gifts for your friends and loved ones, lets remember those brands that have excelled in sexploitation this year, the brands and […]
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 […]
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 supporters have alerted us to Supre’s latest advertising campaign. First, a topless girl advertising ‘jeggings’ on the back of a bus, followed by a highly sexualised television commercial. Collective Shout supporter and admin Kate wrote about the jeggings ad on our site here. Julie Gale of Kids Free 2B kids has written to […]
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 […]
You know, I was really hoping to focus on something other than anti-women t-shirts this week and blog on a topic which might hopefully maintain the interest of the 13,000 people who visited this site in the past four days in response to global coverage of objectifying items of apparel. But just as I was […]
Karen Hermann from Supre has told a number of us now that the ‘Santa’s Bitch’ pimp t.shirts for girls will be removed from 168 stores. It’s now Christmas Eve, I’ve just been into a Supre in Mildura and there’s a stack of the t.shirts on the rack. Did you really mean it Supre?
