AUTHOR Jeanette Winterson has slammed “sexist” advertising hoarding at a building site in Manchester.
The Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit writer, who went to Accrington and Rossendale College, wrote in a national newspaper that she was “outraged” to see hoarding at the Malmaison hotel recently.
The large signs show a scantily-clad model clutching a power drill, wearing warning tape as a bra and a blue hard hat.
Jeanette wrote: “Women at work seems to mean wearing a strapless dress and full makeup.
“ I am not sure what the model intends to do with the spanner in another picture – undo something? A zip or a bolt?
“Plenty of women on business stay at the Mal.
“To get to their hotel room at the end of a long day they must take in, or blank out, the message that women at work are really soft-porn babes.”
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