Boobs and peen all in one logo. It is like a Rorschach test of sexuality and sex characteristics.
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Looks almost nothing like a penis. Looks 110% like a big pill capsule though, which still seems super awkward.
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I think it is a terribly designed logo, I have never seen a penis that looked like that.
Is it too much to ask for a bit of research? The internet is full of penises for reference.
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I haven’t exactly kept track of the mutants who have identified themselves as women, but this really does seem to divide along gender lines. Most of the mutants I know are women see a serious issue with this logo. I wonder how many women were consulted during its design? My guess is none.
edited: struggling to find an appropriate penis gif.
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Don’t forget the OGC!
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And you’d probably be right.
Even without the phallic looking bit to the right, the design is still ill considered, because it also looks like a set of tits.
Offensive, either way.
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For those wondering how many women were involved in the design of the logo, I’m going to go ahead and bet that it’s the same number as were involved in setting up this “Women’s Network” in the first place: None.
And that’s the point. That’s the reason for it existing. Because Scott Morrison’s government has lost several cabinet ministers to accusations of sexual harassement, and even of historical rape. When this all started to blow up, Morrison went and did an interview where he said (this is not a joke) that he understood now why these women are all upset, because he asked his wife about it, and she told him to think about if it had happened to their daughters. This was in the context of announcing an internal investigation “into workplace culture”, carried out by his main factotum, and the results of which were suppressed for as long as he could possibly get away with it.
When there was a women’s march on Parliament, he refused to come out of his office, and had to be forced to accept a delegation to come talk to him. (He was “too busy”.) And then he said on the floor that it was a good sign for democracy that the march had happened because “Not far from here, such marches, even now are being met with bullets, but not here in this country.” (So… we should be proud that we’re not machine-gunning rightfully angry women on the steps of Parliament?)
Grace Tame, an advocate and childhood sexual abuse survivor, was the Australian of the Year last year, and he spent most of his time undermining or ignoring her. To be fair, it started badly, when she gave her acceptance speech describing what had happened to her and how she had risen above it and felt a duty to stop it happening to anyone else, and when she moved away from the podium he leaned over and said “I bet it felt good to get that out”.
Don’t worry, the contempt was returned.
He desperately, desperately needs to try and convince women that he didn’t mean any of the things he said or did over his entire Prime Ministership, especially now that this is an election year. And this was the best he can do.
Oh, and as regards
Scott Morrison’s (not-at-all salutory) nickname is “Scotty from Marketing”. Before he became an MP, and catapulted to the Prime Ministership in an internal putsch mainly by virtue of being the least worst of the options (those options being the incumbent who occasionally showed signs of human feeling, a xenophobic totalitarian not-very-bright ex-cop, and a woman), Morrison was the head of Tourism Australia, where his job was marketing.
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The Junior Jazz Dance Classes logo is a masterclass in optical illusion.
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The worst part of the “Scotty from Marketing” nickname (which he apparently hates, so we should use it at every opportunity) is that he has been fired from every marketing job he held prior to getting in to politics (which he only managed because Rupert Murdochs’ News Limited ran a libelous campaign against the other candidate[1])
“Scotty from Marketing” is a prosperity gospel believer, a member of a happy-clappy church with it’s own sordid history (https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2021/08/06/brian-houston-scott-morrison-charged/)
[1] and I mean that literally, News Limited lost the libel case Nasty saga you nearly missed
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“Women’s network for sharing prescription drugs” logo
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Hey, no penis shaming! Penises come, er, are created in all different shapes and sizes!
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Speaking once again as a recovering graphic designer, I would say that even putting aside the penis/balls/boobs thing, it’s a terrible logo, poorly executed. The W is wonkily rendered, and the pube is a strange choice; the separation between the W and the … shaft … is too thin – noticeable when the logo is reduced down; the graduated fill should either be more pronounced or done away with, and the kerning on the words “Women’s” and “Network” is terrible.
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I confess, I never saw this as a penis. Tampon was my interpretation, and while, yes, women, but still, not something that would win graphic design awards.
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I saw boobs first; but to be fair, the thumbnail had been cropped.
Bad design is still BAD, either way.
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Speeding bewbs, cock and balls, or tampon with string? Whichever (or combination of) you see, I think most of us agree it’s a shithouse logo, resoundingly unsuitable, and has apparently been pulled or withdrawn ( 
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The problem is hardly ever the penis as such, but what it is attached to.
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Definitely and absolutely in the case of Scotty from Marketing.
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