Take Action – Page 67 – Melinda Tankard Reist

Advertising, collective shout, degradation, Girls, marketing, objectification, P*rnography, Sexualisation, violence

24 Nov 2010

Collective Shout: marking a year of speaking out against objectification

How we started. Where we’re heading It was a comment about my book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls,...

Bonds, calvin klein, collective shout, Erica Bartle, Julie Gale, Lynx, objectification, Sexualisation, Woolworths

19 Nov 2010

Objecting to objectification: Collective Shout celebrates a year of wins

Media Release Objecting to objectification: Collective Shout celebrates a year of wins Collective Shout, a dynamic grassroots campaigning movement against...

collective shout

17 Nov 2010

Collective Shout’s 1st Birthday Party!

#Amazonfail, Amazon, child abuse, child pornography, child sexual assault images, child sexual sexual abuse material, Generation Next, pedophilia, Sexualisation, The Morning Show

17 Nov 2010

Amazon continues to trade in children’s bodies

Amazon Scandal Deepens: More questionable material unearthed There’s more damning evidence against Amazon. Naked and semi-naked images of pre-pubescent girls,...

Amazon, child abuse, pedophilia

15 Nov 2010

Peddling pedophilia: zero tolerance

Say no to profiting from harm to children Today a guest post from Melissa Atkins Wardy. My own piece on...

Why is Amazon promoting sexual abuse of children?

Latest child abuse book removed but others remain [trigger warning for survivors of child sexual assault] After a global protest...

11 Nov 2010

Whose needs are served by turning kids into mini-me fashionistas?

Children targeted by high-end designers: style over substance Top end designers are expanding into the children’s wear market. Here’s what...

degradation, objectification, rogerdavid, sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence, yale

8 Nov 2010

The men of Yale: keeping alive the belief that ‘No’ means ‘Yes’

Ritualised aggression designed to keep women in their place Listen to this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLh0RMpit1k[/youtube] Does it send shivers up your spine?...

Alexsandro Palombos, anorexia nervosa. body image, art, celebrity, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders Foundation Victoria, fashion, mental illness, The Morning Show

5 Nov 2010

Anorexia Kills Girls: don’t say you love it

The disease destroys the lives of too many girls: don’t mock it on a t.shirt [Trigger warning for eating disorder...

adultification, Advertising, australia institute, body image, children, emma rush, fashion, Girls, marketing, objectification, Sexualisation, Witchery

3 Nov 2010

Children are not miniature adults or fashion accessories: Emma Rush

Nothing about the Witchery images recognises that children are anything other than miniaturised adults. The images invite you to ‘read’...

Advertising, Axe, Best&Less, body image, BodyMatters Australasia, Bonds, calvin klein, collective shout, Dolce & Gabanna, Eating Disorders, jennifer hawkins, Lovable, Lynx, marketing, plus-size models, Ralph, sexism, Supre, Toyota, Unilever, Vogue, Witchery

1 Nov 2010

Women’s bodies are not sex aids

The backlash against corporate exploitation of women “Women are frequently positioned very differently to men in media. Often shown as...

How pornography hijacks our sexuality

Gail Dines and MTR on Phillip Adams Late Night Live Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How porn has hijacked out...