Comment on the article by Billy Suter called Director Makes Noise about 'Lewd' Poster Ban:
Maybe the director has one point. The posters for strip clubs are all over the city and nothing has been done about them. But two wrongs do not make a right! And this is not a personal attack on theatre - what a far-fetched conspiracy theory... and with what evidence and motive?
Besides that, the poster is in dire need of redesign. It is absolutely terrible. How could artistic theatre-makers sign something that abysmal off in the first place? If the poster has anything to do with it, the show must be awful! Give it a miss. They are just trying to make an outcry as a cheap marketing tactic to get publicity!
Come on South Africa - say no to unsolicited advertising that is derogatory to women... or anyone other group for that matter. Can you imagine the outcry if there were racist posters allowed on the side of the road, in bus shelters, near schools, on the highway? This is not freedom of speech, this is misogyny that will be imprinted into the brains of men, children and women themselves. Where is our right to dignity and respect? Having a symbolic Women's Day is not going to help on its own. There is too much violence against women (and children) because or porn (free on E-TV, note that Deborah Patta is silent on that issue) and the way that women are depicted in the media. Think about it. Axe adverts filming women bulging out of bikinis with their buttocks and cleavage being filmed instead of their faces (and aired between the kiddie shows on a Saturday morning)? Mavericks adverts on bus shelters? FHM cover girls wearing next to nothing in the supermarket queue next to the sweets? When will enough be enough? This is just the tip of the iceberg. Something needs to be done! Women are not there as sexual toys to be played with whenever a man feels like it!
The bottom line is that sex sells and unless something is done about it, advertisers will do anything for money! Stand up for your rights and don't buy their products. Firstly, make it hurt them where you can - not their morals (they do not have any of those) - but by their profits. Secondly, get government to ban this unsolicited advertising because there will always be enough of the sexually deviant and addicted as 'loyal' customers. Thirdly, get a backbone. Men, don't entertain your guy friends when they talk about women in a derogatory fashion. Leave peer pressure in high school please! Women, do not tolerate this with your choice of partner. It is better to be alone than with a man who gets his sexual thrills from someone else.
Article Rating: 8/10
Unbiased, straight reporting that leaves the readers to think for themselves.
