Walmart is Pulling Cosmopolitan from Checkout Lines in Response to #MeToo — But it's an Embarrassing Perversion of the Movement (Business Insider)

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Walmart is pulling Cosmopolitan — a magazine for women that's primarily staffed by women — from its checkout lines, apparently in response to the #MeToo movement against sexual violence.

On Tuesday, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization, said Walmart had responded to its campaign to pull Cosmopolitan from the shelves in checkout aisles. The change will affect the roughly 5,000 Walmart locations where Cosmopolitan is stocked.

"That's over 5,000 stores where families and individuals will no longer be automatically exposed to Cosmo's hypersexualized and degrading article titles that regularly promote pornography, sexting, BDSM, group sex, anal sex, and more, all while marketing toward young teens with Disney star cover models," the center said in a statement.

"As with all products in our store, we continue to evaluate our assortment and make changes," Walmart said in a statement, noting that the publication will still be on magazine racks.