Collective Shout new recruit Laura Pintur, 23, has her first ever published piece: ‘Why I’m calling on Coles and Woolworths to dump Zoo magazine’ in Daily Life today. As signatures build to close to 10,000, Her campaign is being picked up all over the place. I also did a few radio interviews. This is just a small sample of the media this campaign attracted in the last 48 hours. Coles and Woolworths have not officially responded.
Because of the stories I hear of young girls who are being pressured into sex as young as 12 or 13, the two women a week who die at the hands of their partners or ex partners, and the experiences of too many of my friends who are survivors of sexual abuse, I’ve decided to take a stand against companies that are normalising, encouraging and endorsing the mistreatment of women.
I’m starting with Coles and Woolworths for profiting from selling the sexist ‘men’s lifestyle’ magazine Zoo Weekly.
I’m 23 years-old. This is the first time I’ve taken action against national corporations. But I’ve had enough.
Almost every young woman I know experiences the daily reality of sexually harassing comments, cat-calling, inappropriate touching, comments about their bodies, pressure from boys for sexual images and questions about the sex acts they’re willing to do. We talk about it among ourselves and we all think it’s getting worse.
This week, I launched a petition on Change.org calling on our major supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, to bin this so called ‘lads mag’. Read more
Ben Fordham Sydney Live 2GB – Listen here (at 9:20).
Why Zoo Weekly should be banned
See also: “23 year old Melbourne woman calls on Coles and Woolworths to stop selling sexist Zoo magazine” MTR
“Why are Coles and Woolworths promoting rape culture?” MTR
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This era is what I call an era of “Mates and Bro’s, Bitches and Ho’s”. It’s everywhere within our culture. Women’s degradation is being promoted as the norm, and young girls taught how to be victims of abuse. Well done Laura on trying to make a small difference to this enormous problem.
Thank you Laura for your fight… And thanks for making life better for our daughters.
I work with perpetrators and see first hand how men objectify women. This magazing incites sexual assualt and rape. Stop making it ok. ITS NOT NOW NOT EVER OK.