Bluewater and Breitling- remove your offensive display now

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Bluewater and Breitling watches think it is acceptable to have an overtly sexualised model of a woman with exaggerated nipples, astride a bomb, with her full gusset revealed...on display at a family shopping venue- to sell watches. This has no place in 2016. Please sign and share the petition to have it removed. The petition is on change.org. I guess just search for Bluewater or Breitling.

That would be the same Stephen Fry who thinks women don't like sex and only do it to be in relationships?

Yeah, he talks twaddle at times.

He's not right about everything. But on this occasion... the trend of "I'm offended therefore you MUST do as I say" seems strange to me.

Is this an appropriate item to have in the window of a family shopping centre? No.

Nothing to do with Stephen Fry.

Are you also offended by the plastic models in the Ann Summers window? Agent Provocateur?

The doll is pretty cheesy, but petition-worthy? Nope. Some of the comments are a bit Mary Whitehouse.

The top comment on the petition is by an imposter using the same name as the original proposer - skullduggery at work... Shame a legitimate petition is attacked like that but shows what some lengths some will go to distort/degrade an issue.

I am not "offended" slow. I find the display inappropriate.

Link me to the pictures of the ann summers and agent Provacateur windows in blue water and I'll tell you if I find them in appropriate too.

Re Ann Summers they have been told to remove window displays.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3307494/Ann-Summers-ordered-cover-bondage-window-displays.html

The Government issued guidelines in 2012 that sexualised imagery should not be displayed where children can see them following the Bailey Review called ‘Letting children be children’.

These guidelines were reinforced by a report from the Children’s Commissioner’s called ‘Basically, Porn is Everywhere’, which found that exposure to sexualised images is ‘damaging to children, negatively affecting their sexual development, relationships and self-esteem and makes risky sexual behaviour more likely'

How does that display sell watches? (misses the point...)

The same Stephen Fry who was so offended by people rightly calling him out on his twattery that he left Twitter? Yes, every word that falls from the man's lips is gold!

It's a plastic dummy. No rude bits actually on show. Keep calm

Perfectly calm, thanks for your faux concern.

Any comments on Lass's link, also about mannequins?

You don't sound it.

Mannequins in shop windows are not the kind of thing that gets my blood pressure up. There more important things going on in the world.

So you don't like their dummy. Fine. You're perfectly entitled to your view -as are the owners to decide how to decorate their store.

Chillax

Slow you bumped this thread today. Prior to your post the last post was 29/2. It seems to be you who is getting a little over-excited.

Sorry that was not quite the Diet Coke man I remembered.

I've responded to you with neutral language and a spot of mild sarcasm.

You have variously decided that I am offended, in a temper and in need of chilling out and relaxing.

Very odd.

The title of the thread is "Remove your offensive display now." Not all of my comments were directed at you, Barefoot

I live really near Bluewater and I shared the petition on my FB and not a glimmer of interest from anyone. I mentioned it to my mum who practically lives in Bluewater and she'd never noticed it. I sadly don't think people are that fussed. I will complain straight to Bluewater management though as I think it's vile.

I think most people realise that, on the scale of high crimes and misdemeanours, a plastic dummy of a historic cartoon image is not worth getting overly stressed about.

Why are you bothering to post Slow, when you are so utterly uninterested in the topic? It seems like you just want to try and control what other people are allowed to discuss.

It may well be a minor concern, but all these minor displays of some people's attitude to women add up to create a society that usually presents women as only valuable for what they look like. I think that trying to chip away and challenge lazy and stupid sexism like this is a useful thing to do.

Slow, you seem to be getting more aerated at posters on this thread for being against this petition than those posters themselves are with the petition. Perhaps it is you that should chillax.

Exactly. I campaign and petition across a wide range of areas. Signing this petition and firing off a quick e-mail to Bluewater doesn't exactly make a huge dent in my day and might contribute to a change in attitude. After all, Bluewater only exists to sell to people.

I doubt they give two hoots about the dummy, but they do care about losing money (particularly from women who are more likely to browse round a big shopping centre and spend). I understand that not everyone cares or is interested and that's fine, but to suggest that complaining about rank sexism is preventing the collective campaigning about anything else is daft.

Well quite, mrsTodd!

"No-one wants to take on the rage of the web - by which people use social media to externalise their own resentments and anxieties, often anonymously and with far more vehemence than they really intend"