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‘Management should starve girls like this to make them perform’: men who buy women for sex

How come the sex industry never has anything to say about the johns and punters – the kind of men,...

50 Shades of Grey damages young men too: and other great commentary by men

I wonder if men like Jackson Katz and Jonah Mix and Chris Hedges (mentioned in this piece by Meghan Murphy...

There’s nothing ‘safe’ about silencing dissent

Pathologizing disagreement is an intellectually dishonest way to cope with challenging arguments. The MTR blog is fast becoming something of...

Disempowered men, lynch mobs and breast binding advice for girls

Two of my favourite women writers were published in ABC Religion and Ethics on the same day this week. Dr...

Baby Gammy, donor conceived offspring, donor conception, IVF, reproductive tourism, RUdonorconceived.org, sperm donors, Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, surrogacy, trafficking

22 Mar 2015

‘My parents didn’t just bring me home from the hospital, they bought me from the hospital’: a donor conceived woman speaks out against surrogacy

Don’t repeat what happened to us On March 5 the Senate Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs held...

ADOPT NORDIC, Australian Government, brothels, human rights, Nordic model, NORMAC, prostitution, Scarlet Alliance, sex industry, sexual slavery, trafficking, violence against women

19 Mar 2015

The Scarlet Alliance says trafficking is a myth. It opposes penalties for brothels selling trafficked women and exit programs for women who want out. So why are we funding them?

I wrote earlier how the sex industry went into overdrive over some fair questioning on ABC Lateline last week. The...

ABC Q&A, feminism, liberal feminism, P*rnography, prostitution, Sexting, status of women, trafficking, women's rights

18 Mar 2015

On how feminism has been reduced to questions of lipstick, heels and aprons

Are you a good feminist? Bad feminist? Is it really about you? Laura McNally Today the downturn of women’s...

ABC Lateline, ADOPT NORDIC, brothels, human rights, NORMAC, Project Respect, prostitution, sex industry, status of women, Swedish Model, trafficking, violence against women

15 Mar 2015

Lateline exposes harms of ‘sex work’: sex industry goes nuts

The sex industry’s reaction to even mild questioning of its position demonstrates how any discussion about prostitution is shut down...

12 Mar 2015

Caitlin Roper: My experience of online violence

Collective Shout activist writes on experience of virtual misogyny Caitlin Roper, Campaigns Manager at Collective Shout, was asked to...

equality, international women's day, medical profession, objectification, sexism, sexual harassment

9 Mar 2015

Should women have to submit to sexual demands to advance careers? MTR on Sunrise

Women should not have to make sexual concessions to have a seat in the boys club. This morning I appeared...

lisa hunt-wotton, Sexualisation, sunday everyday

4 Mar 2015

Lisa Hunt Wotton interviews MTR

#fatisnotafeeling, anorexia, body image, body shaming, bulimia, Change.org, Eating Disorders, Endangered Bodies, facebook, fat shaming, mental health, teens, thin ideal, thinspiration, weight loss

25 Feb 2015

Fat is not a feeling: Why I’m pressuring Facebook to remove body-shaming ‘I feel fat’ status

Fat talk perpetuates and normalises body shame Rebecca Guzelian How does it make you feel when someone close to you...