A notebook featuring a topless woman pouting in front of a bullseye is also for sale, while another appears to be trying to emulate the front of a porn magazine. The words "entertainment for men" appear over a photo of a naked woman.
Anti-child exploitation group Collective Shout spokeswoman Melissa Tankard-Reist said parents should boycott Typo and companies like City Beach, which sells a pencil case featuring topless women. "This all seems to be part of a theme where pornography has invaded the back-to-school sale," she said. "A notebook with a topless woman in front is glamourising violence against women.
"To promote pornographic violence against women is bad enough, but to promote it as part of a back-to-school sale and to suggest porn and violence are appropriate for the classroom is disgraceful." Teacher Josephine Harris said many of her year 7 and 8 students had Typo stationery."That they are marketing porn to students this age is abhorrent," she said.
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I agree that marketing these items to schoolkids is inappropriate, but what is the deal with that Collective Shout spokeswoman? A topless woman glamorizes violence against women? Perhaps she'd prefer women wear burkas?
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