body image, Eating Disorders, Girls
19 Apr 2010
Today, two guest posts which are critically important contributions to the recent push for compulsory child weigh-ins and other interventions...
17 Apr 2010
One of the great delights in writing this blog in the past five months has been the quality of...
body image, fashion, marketing, objectification, thin ideal, womens magazines
15 Apr 2010
French-Marie Claire goes sans air brushing, but not sans camera tricks, makeup, lighting and models already near ‘perfect’. French actress...
men
13 Apr 2010
Here’s a letter to the editor I sent to The Australian in response to a piece on the Commentary page...
Advertising, body image, objectification, Sexualisation, womens magazines
12 Apr 2010
Youth Minister Kate Ellis wrote a terrific endorsement for my book Getting Real: challenging the sexualisation of girls. I was...
filtering, internet, internet porn, P*rnography
9 Apr 2010
I was looking around for something nice for you for the weekend but couldn’t find anything. So here’s some more...
getting real, girl with a satchel
8 Apr 2010
A few days ago I met Girl With A Satchel Erica Bartle. We caught up in a cafe at a...
child pornography, P*rnography, soft porn
5 Apr 2010
The Age covered the story today: Put soft porn out of view: experts Graphic images delay censor report And also...
Advertising, exploited, marketing
3 Apr 2010
Advertising aimed at children exploits their developmental inability to spot deception or to distinguish between fantasy and reality. It exploits...
1 Apr 2010
As many of you will know, I’ve always wanted to be published in the Athabasca Student Union newspaper. And how,...
child abuse, rape, sexual assault, violence
30 Mar 2010
[Warning. May be triggering for survivors of sexual assault] Last week I commented on the case of a 12-year-old...
Girls, teens, violence, women
29 Mar 2010
This article in the Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend about Kick-Ass, a school holidays film starring an 11-year-old girl...
