Dear Supporters
You supported my petition, so I know you care about ending the objectification of women and sexualisation of children. I thought you would be interested in another petition which has the same aim.
Anna Cordell is a Melbourne-based fashion designer, singer-songwriter and mum-of-five. Until recently she was also an Etsy seller. But after discovering the online marketplace (whose stated mission is to ‘keep commerce human’!) hosts incest and child abuse-themed merchandise, she had to do something about it and decided to shut up shop.
Anna didn’t want to prop up a company which profits from child sexual exploitation material and products which normalise child abuse.
Anna is calling on Etsy’s corporate heads to clean up their platform and stop selling these products immediately, but their silence is deafening.
Read more about it and sign the petition here: http://chng.it/9sQ2FpkDqs
Let’s help Anna reach 10k signatures and reach Etsy with the message that it’s not ok to sell and profit from these harmful products. Please sign the petition and share it widely and be sure to tag Etsy in your social media posts - use @etsy #etsy #etsysexploitation #etsyhatesgirls
Update on petition to Honey Birdette’s ‘family-friendly shopping centre’ landlords.
Thank you to all who have signed the petition recently.
Sex shop Honey Birdette’s landlords (Westfield, Lendlease, Vicinity Centres etc) have continued to host the sex shop’s porn-themed ads in their family friend shopping centres.
Over Christmas, Honey Birdette - once again - co-opted Santa for its floor-to-ceiling ads which portrayed the well-loved children’s character in a 3-way bondage session. In some malls, the ads were on display just metres from where kids had photos taken with Santa. Was the sex shop advertising to kids? How could Westfield be ok with this? Speaking to a shopping center developer executive recently, he agreed that their "corporate social responsibility" pledges were all virtue signalling and no substance. It's up to good people to keep them accountable.
A new advertising Code of Ethics, pitched as better aligned with community standards, comes into effect February 1. I’m curious to see how it will impact repeat offender Honey Birdette. Will we finally see an end to Honey Birdette’s harmful, objectifying portrayals of women? Or, since there are no penalties for breaching the code, will it be business-as-usual for Westfield’s resident sex shop?
Stay tuned.
Thank you very much for your support,
Kenneth