Excuse us for a minute. We’ve just been shouting ‘hell yes!’ at our computer screens, we need a second to calm down.
Breathe in, breathe out. Ready.
A remarkable young Aussie woman, Laura Pintur, has started an online petition that HAS to make a difference. She is calling for lad’s magazine Zoo Weekly to be removed from supermarket shelves, where they sit disturbingly close to children’s magazines and at toddler eye-height. Author and radio presenter Jo Stanley has also added her voice to the call.
The petition to have the magazine removed from supermarkets has already garnered over 6,000 signatures.
Why so much support for the banning of what seems to be just another girly mag?
Because next to the images of big-breasted girls in army-print bikinis (they even had an ANZACS issue… are you serious?!), the magazine contains rape-culturish tips like “Women just really want to get f—ed”.
Because this is the sort of thing we want young men being taught and ‘learning to read’ brains to see: “You want to pick the “loosest/skankiest” one of the lot and fetch her a drink…separate her from the flock.”
Here’s another piece of advice young blokes: “You think your girl’s so dewy-eyed she’s never sucked dick before? She knows how it works…. How about you let her know she’s being f**ked?… she’ll like you taking charge like a real man.”
There’s tips to coerce women into having sex using alcohol. And they use photos of young girls lifted from teen porn sites. There are promotions for best shot of your girlfriend’s breasts… Really classy, classy stuff.
One study showed that people could not tell the difference between the language of Zoo magazine, and the language of rapists. For real.
Zoo is marketed to younger men, including boys who should still be in school, which is troubling enough in and of itself given the pretty off messages it contains. Though, we have another question: Who actually even buys that magazine anymore?
Don’t these boys know you can get porn on the Internet now? It’s free, it’s discreet, and it’s way better for the environment than 60 glossy pages of bullshit. There’s feminist porn, there’s porn that is made ethically, and you can view it free of the disturbing ‘tips’ Zoo magazine is so fond of.
To all the young boys out there who still buy this colourful pile of degradation – here’s a tip from Mamamia (and it’s a better tip than “women just really want to get f–ked“).
Look at boobs on the Internet, if you feel the need – Game of Thrones has a ton of them.
Download smutty articles to your desktop to your heart’s content.
But ignore everything that pieces of trash like this magazine have to say about sex, and for God’s sake stop them being so in-demand that they get prime positioning in supermarkets; it just makes for far too many awkward questions from kids.
Get f–ked, Zoo Weekly. Love from the women.
Sign the petition here, if you feel the same, and share this article with the hashtag #binzoomag.
Top Comments
This is just out of context and feminists double standards. If all of the women's gossip/health magazines aren't removed, you are proving that you just want more power and not equality. You can find half dressed women and similar articles in all of those magazines. Feminists just keep proving to me, an egalitarian, that you are just hypocrites.
Last year I walked into a Star Caltex service station with my 5 year old daughter to pay for petrol. Just under the counter at my daughter's eye level and next to the lolly section was Zoo Weekly. My daughter picked up the mag, tapped me on the leg,
wanting to know why the woman was dressed the way she was. She also asked if we could buy the magazine. I was so angry that she was exposed to such filth that I threw the mag on the counter and demanded an explanation as to why the magazine was aimed at a child's eye level. The man behind the counter really couldn't have given a damn so I then told him I was going to ring their head office. After getting off the phone from a guy at Caltexs office in Sydney who by the way tried to explain to me that Zoo Weekly wasn't really an adult mag (!!!!!...don't worry I let him have it! ) they told me they would be looking into it. A few days later I got a call back to say they rearranged the magazines at that particular service station and now display them at the back of the shop. As far as i was concerned the damaged was already done!