A powerful blog post/article highlighting misogyny in advertising and what women have been enduring
Trigger warning, there is no doubt this may be difficult for women to read who have experienced anything like what is described in this post. I wonder how long this topic has been internalised before they got to share thier voice. please do share with your networks. these are the types of topics that need to be had.
https://zoescaman.substack.com/p/mad-men-furious-women
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- This is why Mother London needs to scrap that female runners going to the mens room to change the bog roll. Always did find that cringe in a enviorument stuff like this happens.Shots fired, I don’t care I would expose this creative industry whilst at F the HR team at Mother, kicking up a fuss about my firearms offence.Think the article is about BBH, and their cocaine parties.
- I love the dots for being a place to have safe discussion and great that you have posted this. I don’t know what it will take to change things. This year made me wake up and realise that as women we all have our own stories or that of a friend who has gone through something like these incidents. As a mum of a young woman it actually breaks my heart thinking that she has to put up with it, as her workplace is male dominated and toxic from what she has told me. One of the women there complained about her skirt being too short when she first started working there. It is not a creative company and it’s something like 80/20 male to female ratio so I am so proud of her for sticking at it but I don’t know what it’s doing to her mentally. For my own part and now that I am an artist and doing commercial jobs in a male dominated field I want to use my art work and any opportunity to speak about it and will never keep quiet or subdued about it again. There is misogyny apparent in graffiti and art in fact I’d go so far as to say it is rampant. Also although people don’t want to bring politics up unfortunately current Govt policy is making it harder to prosecute violence against women.
- @Muneebah Waheed i think its happening across all industries in which we find men, i think its because of how much toxic mascalinity is conditioned into men as they grow up, normalising misognistic view points where it feeds into any professional setting creating cesspit of misongy with so many women unable to voice their experiences without the fear of consequences. if we take into account the fact that clients/people in positions of power have nothing to force them to change their behaviour as their has so far been so little to no consequences. its only thanks to movments where women voice what for a very long time had been willfully ignored to come out into the public to then challnage even those in positions of power.i imagine the imposter syndrome for poc would feel like they dont fit within these spaces where they experience those mico aggressions, all the while thinking to themselfs im reading to much into the situation doubting their actual experiences and just assuming its because they dont belong. not the fact they have never been made to feel like they belong. its about trying to find those spaces and people who you surround yourself by who will help you bild upwards nurture your growth etc.
- Yeah read this last night, it’s going viral… really shocking. It did make me wonder is the same happening in the design industry too? Perhaps not as bad.But for those from diverse backgrounds don’t go into a negative imposter syndrome spiral. When you don’t get the job, you’re not a culture fit and quite frankly I doubt you’d want to be if you realised what was going on.
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