Thread by @CollectiveShout

Collective Shout has supported a petition by a Melbourne father of 3 directed at shopping centre CEOs calling for removal of Honey Birdette’s pornified advertising. The petition has attracted almost 77, 000 signatures. Sign here -> change.org/p/stop-allowin… but there’s more...

In July 2019 Honey Birdette created a counter petition with headlines including “Red Alert,” “Censorship” and “Not asking for it.” The petition, asking for names and emails but directed to no one, misrepresented our work and was promoted on social media.

We have been told by a source close to the company that the petition comprises a large percentage of fake names added by #HoneyBirdette staff at the direction of management.

Honey Birdette’s ‘counter petition’ was first published on their site in June 2019 at a URL ending with ‘not-asking-for-it.’ It falsely claimed that government had singled out lingerie advertising for “censorship” as a result of our work.

Despite these false claims, media picked up the ‘counter petition.’ The CEO used this publicity to portray Honey Birdette as an unfairly persecuted lingerie brand that just wants to “empower women” by “freeing their nipples” through the advertising of expensive lingerie.

We then published an article to correct the record, read it here -> collectiveshout.org/media_release_…

Fast forward to now, the ‘counter petition’ re-emerges. The content has changed, the URL is now ‘equality in advertising’ (the old one redirects) but it retains the signatures from ‘not asking for it.’

What remains the same are the dubious claims about “censorship.”

This latest “censorship” claim from #HoneyBirdette is a literal rewrite of an old publicity stunt, a recycled ‘petition’ and advertising for a $200 rainbow bondage kit.

A publicity stunt to cash in on the the Mardi Gras festival. #Rainbowwashing collectiveshout.org/lesbians_conde…