Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation has released its annual ‘Crossed Off’ list.
First launched 15 years ago, the blacklist is a curated line-up of company offenders who have objectified women and sexualised girls to sell products and services through the year.
This list serves as a guide for consumers who wish to spend their Christmas shopping dollar ethically.
Heading this year’s list is online apparel company TeePublic - owned by Melbourne-based parent corporation Articore - for profiting from products eroticising violence against women.
Hundreds of t-shirt designs hosted on TeePublic’s platform depict women - including nuns - bound, gagged, naked, degraded, strangled and abused.
The 2024 line-up also includes online platforms SHEIN and Temu for selling child sex abuse dolls and replica child body parts. Etsy makes the list for continuing to host incest and abuse-themed merchandise.
Repeat corporate offender Honey Birdette is back for the 11th year in a row. The Playboy-owned sex store has now racked up over 80 ad code of ethics violations for its pornified portrayals of women in display windows in family shopping centres.
The full list of offenders can be found here.
“Decades of research show sexually objectifying portrayals of women like this contribute to men’s violence against women,” said Movement Director Ms Melinda Tankard Reist.
“When women are depicted as less-than-human objects that exist to meet men’s sexual desires, it is easier for men to perpetrate and justify violence against them.”
Contact:
Melinda Tankard Reist - [email protected]
Caitlin Roper - [email protected]
December 1, 2024
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