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Advertising, Bonds, children, collective shout, marketing, Sexualisation

30 Sep 2010

Win! Bonds withdraws little girls bras

Bonds withdraws all ‘bra like’ products in girls sizes 6 and 8 A Victory for people power. Only three days...

Anti-women attitudes thriving: MTR in The Drum

Published today on Sexism: alive and well in Australia Virginia Haussegger is right to lament the status of women in...

Advertising, Axe, body image, collective shout, degradation, Dove, feminism, Lynx, Lynx Lodge, marketing, objectification, P*rnography, playboy, sexual harassment, Sexualisation, Sydney City Council, Unilever, Woolworths

27 Sep 2010

Lynx 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...

Advertising, bratz dolls, Girls, jennifer hawkins, online opinion, Sexualisation

24 Sep 2010

Bratz may have had a makeover but hot, thin, sassy values remain the same

Still strutting their stuff Bratz dolls have undergone a makeover. Apparently they are more ‘demurely’ dressed and have less makeup....

prostitution, rape, sex trafficking, sexual assault, violence

23 Sep 2010

Punched, beaten, kicked, burned, bitten: The life of a prostituted woman

Whether it hurts the woman or not, the men don’t care The sex industry done well at spinning prostitution as...

21 Sep 2010

I’m going to resist the pressure of a sexualised world: 15-year-old girl

It’s letters like this that keep you going. Below is the letter, reprinted with permission, from a 15-year-old girl at...

Trouble 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...

Advertising, anorexia nervosa, collective shout, Eating Disorders, FHM, jennifer hawkins, Lovable, marketing, objectification, sexulisation, womens magazines

17 Sep 2010

Lovable irresponsible: recovering anorexia sufferer

“I won’t be buying Lovable underwear again” Melissa is another to write to Lovable to complain about its current Jennifer...

Advertising, body image, Eating Disorders, fashion, jennifer hawkins, Lovable, marketing, objectification, P*rnography, Sexualisation, thin ideal

16 Sep 2010

Lovable update from couch, slobbing around and stuffing my face with junk food

Mainstream media takes up the issue The Lovable/Jen Hawkins/body image issue has now gone well beyond these humble blog pages....

Abbey Lee Kershaw, Advertising, cyber bullying, Frockwriter, Generation Next, Girlfriend, Girls, Jezebel, South Korea, suicide, suicide prevention australia, World Suicide Prevention Day

13 Sep 2010

Glamourising Suicide

And making fun of suffering: does Girlfriend want to be seen as a mean girl? [Self harm trigger warning. If...

Advertising, body image, Eating Disorders, jennifer hawkins, Lovable, National Body Image Awareness Week, thin ideal, womens magazines

10 Sep 2010

“You are communicating to me a completely unrealistic view of women”: a man takes on Lovable

Damaging the things I hold dear Yesterday, Sydney man David Ould wrote to Australian underwear company Lovable. He’d read my...

Advertising, body image, Eating Disorders, fashion, jennifer hawkins, Lovable, marketing, National Body Image Awareness Week, objectification, Sexualisation, thin ideal

9 Sep 2010

“This ad tears at my self-esteem”: Lovable please read this

Dear Lovable, Yesterday I wrote about your ad campaign featuring Jennifer Hawkins. I hope you read the piece. If you...