One branch of the Country Women’s Association, the group best known for their baked goods, has taken it upon themselves to combat the sexist slogans that can often be found emblazoned on the side of Wicked Campers around the country.
According to The Guardian, two CWA members from Kyogle, in northern NSW, “painted over an offensive slogan on a van that encouraged sexual violence”.
The Bangalow CWA branch president, Di Campbell, told The Guardian:
“Two of them went to the hardware shop and took direct action. Enough is enough. For us on the north coast we see a lot of these awful vans.”
Pictured: the ladies of the CWA getting ready to give those sexist slogans what for.
The Bangalow branch had previously successfully put up a motion at the CWA conference to ban the vans from Australian roads.
In 2016, Byron Bay council outlawed the vans, but according to The Daily Telegraph and the fact that a push to ban the vans was reignited last year, it’s been a difficult ban to enforce.
The Queensland-based company was founded in 2000 and has gained notoriety as a result of its vans, decorated in a graffiti-style and often sporting sexist and racist slogans on the sides or the back.
The guy who owns Wicked Campers looks like your uncle who never married and has no friends his own age and spends an abnormal amount of the calendar year in Kuta wearing singlets and those thick fabric-strapped thongs pic.twitter.com/iH7CwXcyPZ
— becca (@bvrcoe) May 24, 2019
Now, we’re not endorsing vigilantism or defacement of property, but it is pretty great to see the women of the CWA fight back against these obnoxious vans.
