Retail Sexism

We think children can decide for themselves what toys they want to play with without retailers encouraging them to conform to old-fashioned stereotypes. If a girl wants to play with Lego or Transformers or Batman, or a boy wants to play with Hello Kitty or My Little Pony or Batgirl, there's no reason to make them feel that they're making the wrong choice as defined by what's between their legs. Spotted a shop with sexist shelves? Tweet #retailsexism with store name, date, location!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Sexist Department Store Experience

Beales dept store are at it, here. Apparently tigers are for girls, and the Bambi-with-pink-hair-dye Pokémon, Deerling, is for boys.

Don't ask us, we're just reporting.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Walk of Shame for sexist Harvey Nicks

The festive season has seen the big retailers fire all barrels in their marketing department, with some of them opening the sexist door. Here's an example, submitted by Natasha:

Natasha remarks that the advert's message is "degrading to women everywhere... shows women in a bad light, if you're poor and can't afford an expensive outfit, not good looking, overweight etc... then you are not worth a second look."