Herald Sun – Page 41 – Melinda Tankard Reist

Abigail Bray, incest, Melinda Tankard Reist, Metapsychology, objectification, P*rnography, porn culture, porn harms, porn industry, rape, rape culture, Sexualisation, Spinifex Press, status of women, violence against women

7 Feb 2013

‘What the book does so well is to capture, discuss, analyze and provide evidence for the many ways that pornography is harmful to women and children’: Metapsychology reviews Big Porn Inc

‘The pornification of culture and the normalization of (increasingly violent) porn is contributing to a society where pornography, even the...

Bookworld, Burning Down the House, child sexual abuse, Classification Board, Condom Kingdom, incest, RTR fm

6 Feb 2013

Bookworld forced to withdraw incest titles

How Bookworld profited from intra-familial child sexual abuse *Trigger warning – child sexual abuse, incest* We’ve just campaigned against Condom...

beauty, body image, Dolly, Eating Disorders, fashion, Generation Next, sexism, teens

3 Feb 2013

Good advice on standing against sexist stereotypes, teen marriage, budgeting and managing internet – but why so much on scoring a boyfriend?

Girl Mag Watch: Dolly January 2013 In its first edition for the year, Dolly brings readers some important content to...

beauty, body image, fashion, Generation Next, Girlfriend, relationships, sexuality

3 Feb 2013

Girl Mag Watch: Girlfriend – from mindfulness to masturbation

From Mindfulness to Masturbation: Girlfriend’s January issue ‘Switched on: Sorting out the small things’ provides readers with 10 things they...

bullying, cyber stalking, GoDaddy, Revenge porn, sexual harassment, Texxxan.com

31 Jan 2013

Revenge Porn: Women stalked, bullied, lost jobs, forced to relocate, change their name and died

Legal moves to hold perpetrators to account A revenge porn website can be described as a platform for scorned lovers...

anxiety, body image, depression, Eating Disorders, Finch Publishing, mentoring, mothering, parenting, Raising Girls, resilience, rites of passage, Steve Biddulph

28 Jan 2013

Stop selling-out our daughter’s potential: Steve Biddulph on raising girls

After writing the multi-million best-selling Raising Boys in 2003, psychologist Steve Biddulph thought his life work was done. But the...

collective shout, Condom Kingdom, Federal Election, Gordon Brown, Huffington Post, Lads' mags, protest, Royal Commission into Institution Responses to Child Sexual Assault, sexploitation, SEXUAL ABUSE, violence against women, zoo magazine

25 Jan 2013

The time for politeness is over: in this election year let’s harness a new wave of anger for real action for women and girls

Girl Rising: From Demure to Defiant I am affected today by the final paragraph in this piece by former UK...

body image, Dr Caroline Heldman, miss representation, Sexual objectification, Sexualisation, The Sexy Lie

25 Jan 2013

Watch: sexual objectification explained

Dr Caroline Heldman at TedxYouth@SanDiego What is sexual objectification? Is it empowering? Watch and learn. Chair of the politics department...

Condom Kingdom, SEXUAL ABUSE

23 Jan 2013

Condom Kingdom eroticises sex with underage girls

*Trigger Warning* This article will be distressing for some. It was recently brought to our attention that Condom Kingdom, an...

advertising standards board, Coles, misogyny, mumbrella, status of women, violence against women, Woolworths, Zoo weekly

21 Jan 2013

Zoo turns back on ruling, continues its women-hating ways

More misogyny from Zoo as Ad Standards Board ruling ignored We’ve helped bring down Zoo weekly’s ‘hottest asylum seeker’ competition,...

assisted conception, assisted reproductive technology, birth, birth defects, fertility, genetics, infertility, IVF, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, pregnancy, reproduction

15 Jan 2013

Don’t underestimate the hardship of IVF: one couple’s story

Our finances were crippled, our mental health shattered As I wrote in my Sunday Herald Sun piece on the weekend,...

assisted conception, assisted reproductive technology, birth, birth defects, fertility, genetics, infertility, IVF, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, pregnancy, reproduction

14 Jan 2013

Big business of IVF has a human cost

MTR in Sunday Herald Sun I DON’T want to discuss the personal IVF journey of Tony Abbott’s staffer Peta Credlin....