• jazzy100.....who is putting it about that Kevin 'Chicken-heart' Rudd will have the guts to challenge for the leadership in the coming weeks? - JoanneH
  • Sorry NG - My comment should have referred to the first post not the above post - you got in before me! - miranda
  • The greatest vanity 'leveller' for me was getting my first Melanoma. Now all I worry about is covering the scars on my face as new nasties appear and are surgically removed. Wrinkles in my forehead are the last of my worries now! Damn1970's Queensland sun! A-M xx - A-M
  • Tom Waterhouse and this whole gambling/TV sport situation disgusts me. When you consider the time and money spent on eventually getting tobacco advertising removed from our TV screens only to be replaced by the gambling monster, it makes you wonder - how did it come to this? I am 100% with Peter Fitzsimons and hope he can garner enough People Power to make things happen. Interesting that it has been put about that Kevin Rudd will challenge for the leadership in the coming weeks - perhaps he can see that this gambling/TV sport situation is a vote-winner if handled the right way. More power to him if he is going to do something about banning it. - jazzy100
  • I think respect will flow when we have full equality and inclusion. In the meantime we need to just keep plugging on with our sons and daughters emphasizing the importance of respect. The lack of respect shown to the Prime Minister and Speaker by Tony Abbott and his cronies in parliament is a deliberate ploy to undermine the authority of Labor women. But if women in his own caucus and cabinet were present in equal numbers to men, they wouldn't let him get away with it. Unfortunately, as the above post shows, disrespect for successful women occurs at all levels. - miranda
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  • [...] Poor White Trash [...] - 'LONE WOLF' TERRORISM
  • If we are going to get into examples of state politics - let's look at NSW. What impact will Obeid and McDonald's cronyism have on men in NSW or Australian politics? I'm guessing none! Why is that? Cause men hold the balance of power and they are not going to give it up! Why would they? While I dispute Anne's example regarding the GG at Al Minhad (having worked on that base, other factors like the host nation or other coalition forces occupying the runway may have forced a landing in the middle of the day), I too believe that there are underlying beliefs and rules that run to the core of institutions preventing the progression of women. If the top jobs in politics and in business were based on merit and that the cream does rise to the top, then men (generally white and middle class) are a truly superior, talented group. One could argue, and will, that the very existence of this homogeneous power group is actually a sign that there is no meritocracy in operation! Now back to Obeid.... - NG
  • I reckon the only good thing my father ever did for me was to not let me sun bake as a teenager! I hated my freckles so used LOTS of SPF too... Now I'm pretty happy with my 46yo skin. - Helen
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SEEKING ASYLUM FROM A LAD’S MAG

UPDATE, JULY 20.

ZOO WEEKLY and ACP have now formally apologised for this ill-conceived campaign. You can read their apology at the end of this item.*

To be honest, I’m not sure whether to give these deadbeats more oxygen, but since I reckon Kyle Sandilands could do with a break… maybe it’s a humanitarian act.

Come on down Tim Keen, editor of Zoo Weekly magazine. He thinks it’s a circulation winner to stalk a female politician. Asking her to strip off, then when she ignores him, Photoshop her head onto a bikini body.

He also reckons it’s a cack to make fun of the world’s most desperate, suffering women with his search for Australia’s “hottest asylum seeker”.

Hope this edition makes it big, Timmo, maaaate, because, according to circulation figures quoted by Crikey – “Former powerhouse FHM published its last edition in May; Ralph was closed in July 2010. ACP’s Zoo Weekly, launched to great fanfare in 2006, has shed over 50% of its circulation since July 2011” – you’re floundering.

Like some foxy chick asylum seeker, you could sink like a stone if your latest desperate move doesn’t give you some refuge from your plummeting sales.

Even despite ACP positioning your noxious offering on the counter in convenience stores where kids go to buy their lollies after school.

That edition with the norks and free 3D glasses? Maaaate…Genius!

Suck in the kids who are off to see Toy Story 3D. And when they put on the free glasses… it’s tits! Nice work.

Of course Zoo made a splash in 2008 with an offer to MP Kate Ellis to get her funbags out.

She was then Minister for Early Childhood Education, Child Care and Youth and Minister for Sport.

Oops, sorry, should have said: “stunningly sexy Kate Ellis”.

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“We would make ourselves available at any moment and whisk her off to Fiji or Bali for the photo shoot,” said then-editor Paul Merrill, upping his original $30,00 offer (all to go to charity, of course).

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15 Responses to this article

  1. Robyn Oyeniyi July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Wendy, I think you know what I will say about this. So perhaps I best not swear on The Hoopla, do you think?

    I am trying to support Welcome to Australia’s latest campaign, for obvious reasons. Perhaps Zoo could think of doing the same!

    http://teamoyeniyi.com/2012/07/17/welcome-to-australia/

     
  2. FerrelBerryl July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I care so little about this floundering, deadbeat magazine and the troglodytes that read it that I cant even bring myself to feel mildly outraged. I’m more bemused at the depths these losers are willing to sink to. Objectifying the miserable and desperate for your own juvenile amusement. Yawn. Reducing female politicians to a pair of tits. It’s been done.

     
  3. kid July 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    As my sis would say, he has all the intellect of a rodent with a head injury.

     
  4. Douggyi July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    As a male subscriber to the Hoopla, and at that one who has referred many female friends/family/clients/etc to the site, I wish to distance myself from the men who contribute to, produce, publish and consume “Zoo Weekly” and its ilk.

    Really, honestly, not all men are like them. I know many of you women will find that hard to believe.

     
    • Alice Shaw July 19, 2012 Reply
       
       

      I really do believe that not all men are like the bottom feeders who produce and read the zoo magazine. What we need is more of those men to speak out against this idiots.. when the good men speak up it’s harder for the bad men to pretend they can’t hear.

       
      • Alice Shaw July 19, 2012 Reply
         
         

        these, not “this”

         
  5. Rachael July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    What’s next? Australia’s hottest holocaust survivor? I agree about not giving them oxygen but I am feel really saddened that this mentality even exists in Australia and that they can get away with this sh*t.

     
  6. Red 60 July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    As a Mum of three 20+ sons who probably at some time have read this trash it is hard to see this on their cover. But knowing who’s the oxygen behind it doesn’t surprise me in the least… What I can say is I raised my sons to see things for what they really are .

     
  7. Pedestrienne July 19, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I’d like to assure men reading that I think of this stuff as magazines all men are interested in the same way I think all those dull, worthless ‘women’s magazines’ interest all women – in that, they do not.

     
  8. Julie Wright July 20, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Well Wendy, that just reaffirmed my thinking on some of the sleaze bags who run this mag. Their brains are in their &%$*@. To be honest, any thinking person would not buy this mag anyway and you are right to not give this too much oxygen. I will keep an eye on your twitter to see if any idiot dare voice an okay on this mindless mag.

     
  9. Jackson July 21, 2012 Reply
     
     

    This is an appalling thing for any magazine to do, for many obvious reasons (maybe not obvious enough for some..)

    However, I think you would have a stronger case and show more integrity if you didn’t publish the photoshopped image as well. The description alone would be enough to condemn the magazine. There is no need to spread the image further.

    This is my first time reading this blog, and I look forward to reading more.

     
    • Wendy Harmer July 21, 2012 Reply
       
       

      Yes, I thought a lot about that, but now you’ve convinced me, Jackson. It’s gone. Thanks for reading.

       
    • amd July 21, 2012 Reply
       
       

      This was exactly what I said to Mamamia about them insisting on showing the front cover of Zoo with the highly sexualised photo of some sports woman or other – that it wasn’t necessary, that I don’t subscribe to Zoo and that I don’t want to see it when I click a link to Mamamia. Unfortunately Mamamia ignored me, defended themselves and left the image up. Nice to see some sites do listen to genuine, relevant feedback from readers.

       
  10. TMT July 24, 2012 Reply
     
     

    So, Zoo readers got an apology, Matt got an apology, asylum seekers and their families got an apology and Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young got an apology. That’s all great but what about the woman who’s body was cut and pasted onto Senator Hanson-Young’s head? Who is she? Senator Hanson-Young’s feelings about being portrayed in this way have been considered but no mention of the other woman and her sensibilities. Is she not important too?

     

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