24 Jan 2011

Is Kanye West’s Monster the sickest video clip ever?

Pushing the women-hating envelope so far as to reduce women to just flesh By Daniela Elser, Entertainment Editor IS this...

Nina Funnell on the sexualising of dead women

Nina Funnell, who I’m happy to say is become a regular contributor here on the MTR blog, has written a...

20 Jan 2011

Childified woman, adultified child: Jennifer Aniston and a pageant girl

Turning women into little girls and little girls into women Here’s actress Jennifer Aniston in a photo shoot for Allure’s...

The birth mother not the gestational carrier gave Nic and Keith a baby

Cold term cannot disappear central experience of pregnancy and birth Gestational carrier is an ugly term THE objectification of women’s...

Monster video: a rape scenario set to a soundtrack

What’s entertaining about women in lingerie hanging by their necks on chains? What’s artful about images of drugged, unconscious women...

So decapitated women are fine with you Kanye West?

I’ll take mine dead, thanks. Horror porn is not ironic. [Trigger warning for victims of violence] When you look at...

Congratulations: You’ve been raped!

Etsy’s sadistic greeting card for rape survivors I was just about to post this blog when I got news through...

Can pornography be ethical? The dolphin-free-tuna solution

Pornography will always be exploitative I recall a few years ago being interviewed (read ‘debated’) by two young men on...

Playboy makes me feel like a piece of flesh: a young woman speaks

“These pictures make me feel worthless” Late last night (12:07am to be precise) I received this comment from 18-year-old Bellatrix...

Dymocks Bookshop: Porn Merchants?

If Playboy isn’t porn what is? Today a guest blog post by Clive Hamilton, Australian author, Professor of Public Ethics...

Act to prevent release of Kanye West’s monstrous women hating music video

Sign petition – say no to eroticised violence against women On December 10, I wrote an opinion piece titled ‘Who...

Vogue’s smouldering photo shoot of tarted up little girls no parody

Not satirising the culture. It is the culture Critics of the December-January French Vogue photo spread featuring little girls as...