Everybody’s Loveable: especially if thin, sexy and covered in icecream

More double standards and mixed messages for Body Image Awareness Week According to its website, Australian underwear brand Lovable says...

Saving boobies or saving women?

The sexualisation of breast cancer campaigns ‘Help The Hooters’, ‘Save The Jugs’, ‘Don’t Let Cancer Steal Second Base’, ‘Cop a...

Death, sex, sport: all dad needs for father’s day

Men are stereotyped too Came across this father’s day ad in The Weekend Australia magazine. Right here we have a...

When the price of beauty is death: cosmetic surgery can kill

Or leave you permanently disfigured “It’s an industry that has developed in health care which has nothing to do with...

Women tell Microsoft objectification is not OK

Company forced to apologise for meter maid stunt Nice to be able to end the week on a good note....

Gucci: Because silent female corpses are so hot right now

The latest in eroticised violence in advertising There’s no shortage of material documenting the mind numbing levels of violence against...

Girlfriend: We’re still waiting for the revolution

GF’s ‘reality check’ needs a reality check Revolution: a: a sudden, radical, or complete change b: a fundamental change in...

I hope my bikini doesn’t fall off while I’m bringing about world peace

The Miss Universe competition shows us just how far we haven’t come Miss Universe has come round again. The swimsuit...

‘They kill her baby and they make her suffer’: horror stories from China

Suffering unlimited Recently, Xinran, the Chinese-English journalist and author of Messages from an Unknown Chinese Mother: the lives of women...

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Rape: A Civil War Against Women

Visions of hell from Africa Two recent and deeply disturbing ABC Four Corners documentaries have me thinking about how much...

Sexual imagery contributing to rise of child-on-child sexual assault

Crime Commission report reveals failure to act Three alarming reports in News Ltd papers about child on child sexual abuse....

Sexual Harassment isn’t a joke

But Alannah Hill acts like it is When a woman makes a joke about sexual harassment and claims she wishes...