Apparently:
"A family clothing chain that used the image of a dead woman lying under a couch on the cover of its latest catalogue has been accused of sexualising violence against women.
The front page of the Rivers catalogue features a dead woman wearing high heels and fishnet stockings and bears the title "10 Deadly Deals", the Herald Sun reported.
Feminist group Collective Shout, who campaign against the objectification of women in advertising, have called for a boycott of the popular chain.
The group has also complained to the Advertising Standards bureau about a previous cover which featured a naked young women crouching in knee-high stockings with the headline "Get Excited".
"The fishnet tights and high heels and the dead woman under the couch, they're all cues to sexualise an act of violence,'' Ms Liszewski said.
In a statement, Rivers said their female marketing director had chosen the image. "All of our staff are scratching our heads and wondering how on earth the website in question manages to conjure up such weird and draconian interpretations of our catalogue covers,'' it read.
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6 comments:
Does the company in question have a website and do they ship to the USA? Cause if they do, I'd like to go their website and purchase something just to show my support.
Firstly who are these frustrated lesbians? As an Australian I have never heard of them before. I shop at Rivers and I will continue to shop at Rivers.
Fishnet tights? Stockings maybe but so passe, shades of the fifties. Perhaps in that era the women in this protest group may have been able to attract men by wearing such an item.
Anyone with a brain (that is active) would see an advert for a fashion chain, anything else is a the product of a decomposing mind. Well that pretty well sums up the gay community in Victoria.
-btm
After doing a bit of research on my own I discovered that their website is http://www.rivers.com.au/ and it appears they ship to the USA, Now time for a bit of online shopping!
First, the ad may not have been the brightest idea their marketing director ever had. But having said that, "anything" that in anyway resembles what the fat, smelly, radical lesbians are offended by, (and that's just about everything) is going to cause this type of hysteria. Here in the US, where our ads and TV commercials routinely contain what is clearly male-bashing, never get a complaint. Why is that guys?
@Mr Loa,
Due to PC legislation the US male has clearly been emasculated and intimidated.
-btm
The ad is tacky and of poor taste could you imagine is they showed a image of OBAMA doing the communists clenched fist salute?
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