When rapists speak can we believe them?

Confusing the central issues of violence and responsibility Last month Jezebel ran a piece titled ‘Rapists Explain Themselves on Reddit,...

Target faces ‘backlash’ over inappropriate girls clothing

Target has drawn fire from campaigners against the sexualisation of children for selling clothes considered sexually inappropriate for young girls...

Not the fastest, just the bravest

My favourite article on the Olympics. Just magnificent. Tahmina Kohistani of Afghanistan, we salute you. OH, to be the fastest...

Why are Women Devouring Fifty Shades of Grey?

Sadistic Romance by GAIL DINES The porn industry must be throwing a fit right now. The adult book Fifty Shades...

Gold medal for sexism

Creativity in Australian advertising is dead. Long live recycled, misogynistic, overseas rubbish

Guest post by Guy Sigley, originally published at The World Tells Me Today’s post begins with an actual account of...

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Why can my kid reach the porn but not the choccies? – An open letter to the Chairman of 7Eleven

This is an open letter to the Chairman of 7Eleven Australia, Russell Withers. It has also been posted on their...

Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Hypocrisy

By Laura Bates | July 5, 2012 This week, Seventeen magazine promised to publish un-photoshopped images of real girls, finally...

How objectification silences women

“When a woman believes that a man is focusing on her body, she narrows her presence by spending less time...

How inequality and objectification is imprinted in our brains

“A woman will see this as a representative of herself and her self-worth” Have come across some great blog posts...

Zoo’s meaningless apology: sexualised photoshopped image of Sarah Hanson-Young still there for readers’ pleasure

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...

Victory! Zoo apologises for ‘hottest asylum seeker’ competition

The petition calling on ZOO magazine to apologise and scrap its ‘hottest asylum seeker competition’ accumulated over 6000 signatures. Change.org...