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Pages tagged "General Pants Co"


General Pants still using sexploitation to sell clothing

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · May 01, 2019 3:34 PM

General Pants has a long history of using sexist and sexually objectifying advertising to sell its merchandise. Their latest ad campaign, in store windows across the country, shows that nothing much has changed.

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Look who we've #CrossedOff our shopping list for 2016

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · November 18, 2016 1:35 PM · 4 reactions

It's that time of year again, already! As Christmas approaches, retailers are kicking it up a notch competing for your business, and Collective Shout releases our annual blacklist of corporate offenders who have sexualised girls and objectified women throughout the year. These companies do not respect women, they have not changed their ways, and they don't deserve your money. 

You can speak with your wallet and show these companies that sexually exploiting women and girls is bad for business.

Below is our boycott list for 2016:

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Collective Shout calls out Doughnut Time for sexist uniform

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · May 08, 2016 12:01 PM

Doughnut Time joins a growing number of companies requiring young staff members to wear uniforms with sexually suggestive slogans and imagery. We have long raised questions about this exploitation of young female staff and invitation for sexual harassment. 

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Collective Shout's National Director of Operations Coralie Alison was quoted in The Age over uniforms for female staff with strategically placed doughnuts.

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Ad Standards Board approves General Pants 'Wet Dreams' ad campaign

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · August 24, 2014 5:00 PM

"...the reference to “wet dreams” is linked primarily to the competition to win an overseas trip to Dubai"

- Ad Standards Board, apparently not joking.

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General Pants change room plastered with images of prostitution and pornography

Posted on News by Collective Shout · December 01, 2011 9:00 AM

A supporter sent in this photograph of the inside of a General Pants change room. The change room is plastered with images of pornography and prostitution advertisements. 

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General Pants teenage staff forced to wear "I love sex" badges for ad campaign

Posted on News by Collective Shout · May 08, 2011 5:00 PM

As reported in The Sunday Telegraph

“…young shop assistants told The Sunday Telegraph they were uneasy about the raunchy push for Sydney-based denim designers Ksubi and uncomfortable wearing the badges.

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General Pants 'Sex' campaign may breach Anti-discrimination Act

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · May 07, 2011 3:15 PM

Porn inspired ad campaign may create a hostile work environment in which women are sexually harassed by co-workers or customers

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General Pants Co. 'censor' new ad campaign

Posted on News by Collective Shout · May 06, 2011 10:19 PM

We say get rid of it altogether

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General Pants pole dancers in shop front windows

Posted on News by Collective Shout · January 01, 2010 5:00 PM

This photo was taken April 2009. Pole dancers in shop front windows of a General Pants store, Bourke Street Melbourne.

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