Zoo Weekly censured by ad watchdog for ‘demeaning’ Facebook posts
A posting by Zoo Weekly magazine on its Facebook page that featured a woman’s body cut in half before readers were asked which they preferred has been censured by the advertising watchdog.
The post – which went up in October – triggered a series of misogynistic comments from readers. Mumbrella raised questions about it at the time of posting.
Finally a legal team taking on the ASB about social media.
+10 points to ACP
Its a mens mag!!! Political correctness gone wrong.
Sad. Sad that people think this is funny. Sad that this constitutes publishing in 2012. Sad ACP employ people who actually think this constitutes publishing in 2012. Sad comments from readers. Sad magazine.
If Jeep felt pressured enough to remove their Facebook content featuring a girl in a bikini last week, then how is this excusable? Defending this content by calling it “editorial material” is such a cop out. There should AT LEAST be more moderation of those sorts of comments, they’re absolutely dreadful.
@ dal… did you read the reader posts? That’s not political correctness gone wrong, that’s offensive, misogynistic crap from people with the IQ of a pebble.
Maybe this is the quiz for those who find the Woolie shopping quiz too hard???
What a wonderful victory for the pearl-clutchers of Collective Gout.
Bauer, as a publisher rather than advertiser, seem to have a very valid legal point. I wonder if they will push this.
In the mean-time we can all rest safer in our beds knowing that nothing meaningful has been done to address sex equality or women’s rights. However, an abstruse moral claque have validated their right to control and inflict on others.
It seems a strange irony. I’m guessing (like all magazines) ZOO is beholden to its coverstar (who is always female.) It’s an odd publishing scenario that would say “hey, be in our magazine” but we’ll treat you with utter contempt, totally degrade you and make offensive comments about you. In that it’s a true publishing phenomenon.
Why is anyone surprised by the sexist comments?
This is what happens all over Facebook. It’s what happens in the workplace. It’s what happens on school playgrounds and in homes all over Australia.
It’s what women have to put up with every day.
It’s why we can’t have political debate about the issues … just sexist name calling in Federal Parliament.
Why do magazines publish this crap? It’s because it’s what their readers want and what their staff thinks is funny.
I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a gentleman left in Australia. Or if VB and Bundy rum have just marinated every Aussie male’s brain.
Who created this joke? someone young and naive
Nothing wrong with this it is a lads mag, not Womans Weekly. Don’t like the content? move along.
Tasteless- yes.
In breach of ASB – NO M8. Better luck next time.
Here comes the future.The media crossover to so many platforms has raised the need for a new look at where the buck stops. Facebook has seen huge backlashes to Media personalities, which took them, and their clients by surprise. Now, the flack will start flying onto clients as keyboard power grows.
Advertisers are putting themselves at major risk when they associate with offensive material, and this is very likely if a Facebook or Twitter platform is a chosen advertising medium. More so, if you’re already in a sexed -up Man mag arena.
Get the the guarantee responses are well-monitored, which are, after all, the very nature of Social Media, or your client’s ‘cool’ factor may end up ‘looking like a’ tool’ factor.
Some Assembly Required.
I see nothing wrong with this photo. it is NOT suggestive, it is NOT BLOODY or GORY, there are no open wounds , it does not appear sexual i anyway.
I see this an a clever and artistic image.
You people are a bunch of P.I.G.S…..and I hope when and if you men who thought this was funny all have daughters who fall in love with m en like you who think women are nothing but something to own and control. I hope all of your daughters and mothers are treated the same way you have decided they deserve by the simple fact that they were born women and not men. KARMA is sweet!!!
Sheesh, come on people, build a bridge will ya?
Yes it’s bad taste, (but what part of ZOO isn’t?)
It’s NOT the end of the world!
Does anyone know who the model is? Put those two halves together and you’ve got one gorgeous sexy gal with a killer body.
Rule In Life Number #1: Do not give a shit what other people think.
C’mon people, really, really dumb fuck neanderthals need entertainment too to arouse their tiny, tiny willies and wrinkle their mono brows and Zoo is it. It is a publication for animals (get it?) and fulfils it’s role.
And it is not true that the advertisers and media planners who support it are just like the readers. Really it’s not.
The ruling is fine as long as it is applied consistently – I’m sick of seeing (admittedly dodgy) media postings like this one vilified, when the exact same post featuring a man would barely raise an eyelid.
Too true! NO double standards! Double standards = HYPOCRISY!
couldnt care less of the Facebook stunts. She is hot ! Who is she ?