Don’t underestimate the effectiveness of online petitions and social media!
Thanks to YOU, in just over 24 hours, around 1500 people asked that an offensive pro-harassment sign be removed from a construction area at MarketFair Mall in New Jersey.
I contacted the mall and was given the email address for Robyn Marano, the VP of Marketing for the mall and sent her information about the petition. She called me a few minutes ago and let me know that the mall would remove the sign tonight, after all of the customers were gone from the mall.
Victory!!
When I launched the petition yesterday (my first) on Change.org with the support of the amazing activist Shelby Knox who works there, I had the lofty goal of 250 signatures. Because so many people shared the link, tweeted it, posted it on Facebook, and wrote about it (like on Feminist Philosophers & Jezebel), it surpassed that goal very quickly.
Thank you for your help and congratulations on helping make MarketFair Mall a more welcoming environment for shoppers by pressuring them to take down the offensive pro-harassment sign.
This is what online activism looks like.
(And, as stated a few other places, I apologize for wrongly associating E A Reeves construction with this sign. They were not responsible for it.)
Janet Restino says
Way to go!!!!
what was the sign you were protesting? what did it say? did i miss that post?
scott says
what was particuarly offensive about that sign? It is funny. I think you are being a bit to sensitive. Lighten up a little.
cullen says
Your Comments First off, anyone sexually harrassing you should be taken out and shot. Secondly that old woman who first complained about that sign, would anyone really sexually harass her? I don’t think so. It looks to me like the pair of you want males to sexually harass you and you are just pissed off because they don’t. Get a life and stop complaining about every little thing you see. I actually feel sorry for you. You must be the most miserable person walking the planet earth!