Bitches, sluts, not marriageable, too pretty: Is any girl good enough?
Since my last piece on the cyberbullying taking place through Facebook, other sites targeting girls for their alleged flaws have been found. One identifying young women not considered “marriage...
View ArticleBut it’s not that violent: one teacher’s account of the impact of violence...
Plus: Grand Theft auto gamer’s instruction video for best way to murder prostituted women And Calvin Klein’s new men’s underwear ad: No, we don’t want to see your...
View ArticleYou look so good in blood! Violence is, like, so hot right now
Lindsay Lohan goes with the (blood) flow [Trigger warning. Images of violence, self-harm] It seems nothing is off limits to be sexified for the purposes of grabbing attention...
View ArticleRevenge: Slash her face so no one will want her
More Reasons to Hate Lad’s Mags: Zoo advises spurned lover to slash ex girlfriend’s face I’ve written before about lad’s magazines which thrive on the objectification of women...
View ArticleTrouble in girl world: pressured sex, assault, porn pics, bullying
The brutalisation of girls In the past couple of weeks I’ve met or heard from young girls whose experiences give further disturbing insight into just how bad things...
View ArticleLynx hooks up with Woolies to promote female servitude
Why would Woolworths associate itself with the objectification of women? It’s not news that Lynx’s revels in degrading representations of women to promote its body spray. I’ve talked...
View ArticleThe men of Yale: keeping alive the belief that ‘No’ means ‘Yes’
Ritualised aggression designed to keep women in their place Listen to this: Does it send shivers up your spine? Make you feel chilled? That’s what it did to...
View ArticleCollective Shout: marking a year of speaking out against objectification
How we started. Where we’re heading It was a comment about my book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, which sparked the birth of Collective Shout: for...
View ArticleNina Funnell on the sexualising of dead women
Nina Funnell, who I’m happy to say is become a regular contributor here on the MTR blog, has written a thoughtful analysis of the dead-women-are-sexy Monster video clip...
View ArticleZoo’s meaningless apology: sexualised photoshopped image of Sarah...
Lad’s mag pretends to apologise a·pol·o·gy noun, plural a·pol·o·gies. a written or spoken expression of one’s regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another...
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