Malaysian men grope female cutouts
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SHELL said it is removing life-sized cutouts of a Malaysian woman in a head scarf from its petrol stations in the Muslim-majority country after photos of men groping the figure started circulating online.
The adverts featuring a female employee, wearing a red T-shirt with a Shell logo, black trousers and a black head scarf, smiling and with her thumb raised, had been placed at Royal Dutch Shell’s stations in Malaysia.
But images of men kissing the cardboard cutouts, holding her hand and grabbing her chest and crotch started circulating online in what the energy giant blasted as “distasteful and suggestive acts.”
The woman, named in local reports as 25-year-old Nor Shafila Khairusalleh, who worked at a Shell station, criticized the “extreme behavior” of the men in the Internet images.
“They may just be joking, but I feel humiliated,” she told news portal mStar.
The Anglo-Dutch group said “we do not condone this disrespectful act, which is completely against the culture of Malaysians and Shell’s core values.”
“The standee (cutout) will be removed from all our sites with immediate effect.”
Shell did not say how many cutouts were removed and which stations were affected. The oil giant has a network of over 950 stations across Malaysia, according to its website.
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