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Energy giant Shell said it is removing life-sized cutouts of a Malaysian woman in a headscarf from its petrol stations a day after photos of men groping the figure started circulating online.
The adverts featuring a female employee –wearing an extremely modest ensemble consisting of a red T-shirt with a Shell logo, black trousers and a black headscarf, smiling and raising her thumb in the air — 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 began circulating on Facebook in recent days, in what Shell 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, criticised the “extreme behaviour” of the men in the images.
“They may just be joking, but I feel humiliated, because that is still myself although it is just an image,” she told news portal mStar.
The Anglo-Dutch group said in a statement that “we do not condone this disrespectful act, which is completely against the culture of Malaysians and Shell’s core values. We urge netizens and members of the public to refrain from sharing these images further.
Reporting by AFP
