Dear Frank Body, treating women as body parts isn't empowering
A few months back, we called out skincare company Frank Body over their cosmetic product ‘Send Nudes’. The product, a lip and cheek tint, features the image of a naked backside with the phrase 'Send Nudes'.
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We recently called out skincare company Frank Body over their 'Send Nudes' lip and cheek tint, a product that through its name serves to normalise and legitimise the sexual harassment and requests for nude images experienced by teen girls. A group of adolescent girls approached the company with their concerns, but Frank Body dismissed them.
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Read moreTeen girls call out Frank Body over sexist “Send Nudes” cosmetics
A group of young female high school students have called out Frank Body over the skincare company’s product, “Send Nudes” lip and cheek tint.
Read moreFrank Body: From coffee scrub to abusive partner
Indoctrinating women to embody the dominant masculine sexual fantasy
An Australian owned skin care company has smeared its name by embodying a persona of an abusive partner to sell their brand. Frank Body has created a society in which women have become the object of desire to please the patriarchal male fantasy. Body scrub becomes an innuendo for sexual abuse, when this physical object becomes a vocalised male, named Frank, whereas women become nameless only to be referred to as “babe” becoming less than this physical object.
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