The Australian Women's Network.
A group that's actually run by the government to promote advancements in
women's rights is actually under fire because of their logo.
The concern is that the logo looks like a giant penis.
And so we should probably take a look at it and
adjudicate the situation is very serious.
But I do want to also note that Vice reported this by saying in a more
conceptual, there there it is Women's network.
It looks like- >> I mean I can't believe it-
>> A penis and balls.
>> And someone said that little twist or even looks like pubic hair, it is unreal.
What were they thinking for the Women's Network?
>> We know what they were thinking.
>> Okay, we know, no, but honestly, I don't know.
I mean, if that was a mistake, that's a hell of a mistake.
>> They got penis on the mind.
Let's just put it that way.
[LAUGH] So- >> I have no idea what the gender of
the person who designed that and approved, that is.
>> So Vice reports that in a more conceptual interpretation
of this shape, the w is testicles complete with a curl
of a pube flinging jauntily from the tip of the letter.
>> [LAUGH] Jauntily.
>> And the purple column, it's purple guys charging
ahead of the letter is the shaft of a penis.
So there you have it.
And by the way, here is the reaction of an Australian
news anchor upon seeing this logo.
>> Take a look at this.
This is the new logo for a women's network in the Department of Prime Minister and
Cabinet.
It would have cost you the taxpayer a bomb to design it all.
But seriously, I tell you it's about as phallic as it gets for
a Women's Network Good Lord.
>> [LAUGH] I love the Australian accent because it just, it makes it even better.
Makes the story even better.
>> Good Lord.
>> [LAUGH] And so the Women's Network champions,
equal opportunity on behalf of its members and is an inclusive, volunteer-based
organization built by members for members according to the government.
It is a government agency people like what's going on here?
Are they trolling women in the country with this phallic symbol?
I'm not offended by it, I'm more abused by it.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that this was an accident.
How do you not see it?
>> Yeah, well look, so, I actually wanna get to a serious point here in a second.
Yes, there is one of the story.
>> Thank God the show today it really was lacking serious points, but continue.
>> Okay, all right, so, I like the writer of the Vice article that I read on this.
>> Samantha Cole.
>> Yes, Samantha Cole made a good point.
Look, there's a lot of things that people say are phallic or
remind them of genitalia of some sort of like I don't really see it, right?
So she mentioned a couple of examples of Airbnb.
So we went and found these logos for you guys just to remind you.
And she says, look, I don't I get what people are saying about Airbnb is logo,
but it's not obvious, right?
So there it is.
>> Kinda I never saw it, but I kind of do now.
>> You can't unsee it, but [LAUGH]- >> He's right,
was it's supposed to be testiest?
>> No, but that's the thing, I mean, or they say, female genitalia,
that with that being the clitoris in the middle.
>> Fun, okay?
>> Okay?
>> I didn't see that either.
>> But look, so since we are not positive, you could say, well,
it's not absolutely clear, right?
The London olympics, I don't even get how this I mean the logo is.
>> A mess, it is a mess, it's like a 1980s mess.
>> It's a total mess.
It's from 2012, but I don't know what it is.
So, no, I agree with her not guilty.
Then I'm my favorite though.
One of the reasons I brought this up is to the Trump pence logo because people
thought the T was having sex with a P.
Okay, [LAUGH] that the T was screwing the P, which it eventually did.
>> Yeah, thta's very true.
>> Right, but Samantha says I'm not even sure that I see that like or
that it was intended.
But when you see the Women's Network one, you're like, no,
that had to be, [LAUGH] that is just too much, right?
But so here comes a couple of points, this is still fun.
The Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet had to put out a statement saying the logo has been removed from
the department's website pending consultation with staff.
The Prime Minister in the Prime Minister's office were not part of this logo design.
>> Okay?
>> You know, things have gone disastrously when the Prime minister of your country
has to say I did not design the penis logo.
>> I do not in fact have penis on the mind, okay?
>> [LAUGH] Okay, yeah, we didn't think the Prime Minister designed it.
>> [LAUGH] You freaking imagine.
>> Although Trump.
>> Minister standing in like sitting in front of a computer like hmm what would be
a good logo for this government agency?
>> Yeah, totally, totally.
>> I've got nothing else to do.
>> But Trump did do that.
He didn't do it with a logo, he did it with Air Force one, if you remember,
he's like they're coming out with the new Air Force one.
I didn't do this design, but I was a big part of it.
I picked the colors literal, literal.
You could look it up.
>> He was the same way in terms of the aesthetic design of the border wall.
>> That's right.
And he's like, it's gonna be black.
Okay, now it's because they had rejected his substantive design ideas.
He wanted it to be electric and murder anyone that touched it and
they're like the guards could touch it.
Plus that's a war crime and I mean a crime of many different sorts, right?
And he wanted, this is true.
He wanted a moat underneath the border wall with alligators and
snakes and people.
>> He was going to fill it with republican politicians.
>> [LAUGH] and they're like, sir,
the snakes could slither away, [LAUGH] right?
Like this is the moron that's present.
That's why they probably have to ask the Australian prime minister.
Hey, did you do the penis logo?
>> Yeah, let's get back to this embarrassing thing happening in Australia.
Like we've had enough of America embarrassing itself.
>> Right, so all right now they're finally a serious sport.
You merely a CEO at older woman's network and
SW that's another organization obviously.
And she says, look, it's not enabling cultural change.
It's enabling cultural change aspirations.
So we are so far behind that we have to facilitate people to feel like they want
to change the culture.
It's like saying let's dream about it some more.
I should be enabling cultural change to take place.
The reason I'm bringing that is because we're all having this debate or
argument or whatever and having a good laugh over the logo.
But her point is, hey, are we actually doing anything?
We're always constantly like empowering and enabling and you're
putting out information, so that somebody could do something several decades later.
How about instead of all the logo nonsense,
we actually do something to protect women's rights.
I love that point.
Yes, and ten times more could be applied to America where there's a lot of
enabling and empowering and never actually protecting women's rights.
>> That's so true, it's used for political messaging.
And then once they're in positions of power to actually do something like when
Democrats had a supermajority.
No, I keep mentioning this.
But Democrats had a super majority in the first two years of the Obama
administration.
They could have gotten a lot of things done, no excuses.
There's no single senator who's gonna block everything and
they didn't codify reproductive rights.
They didn't codify the reproductive protections.
That would have saved us from this right wing supreme court and
the 23 states that are now trying to ban abortion.
>> But hey, you know what?
Since they're not doing anything now under Biden for domestic policies,
they're doing absolutely.
But I got a great idea.
Maybe Biden can design a Woman's Network logo here in America.
>> My God, can you imagine?
>> Unfortunately, I can, [LAUGH] okay?