Lad’s mag pretends to apologise a·pol·o·gy noun, plural a·pol·o·gies. a written or spoken expression of one’s regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another I find myself pondering the question: do the editors at Zoo Weekly Magazine understand what an apology is? This week a Change.org petition, initiated by Collective Shout […]
Nina Funnell, who I’m happy to say is become a regular contributor here on the MTR blog, has written a thoughtful analysis of the dead-women-are-sexy Monster video clip soon to be officially released by rapper Kanye West. It has been encouraging to see the issue attracting global coverage. Here’s Nina’s piece. Sex, death and Kanye […]
How we started. Where we’re heading It was a comment about my book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, which sparked the birth of Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation. A contributor, Melbourne writer and blogger Tania Andrusiak (author of Adproofing Your Kids: Raising critical thinkers in a media-saturated world ) described […]
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? Make you feel chilled? That’s what it did to me. The chanting pack, the ‘No means Yes’ mantra, the threatening insistent tone, the sense of ritualised aggression. It felt like something the Klu Klux Klan […]
Why would Woolworths associate itself with the objectification of women? It’s not news that Lynx’s revels in degrading representations of women to promote its body spray. I’ve talked about the company’s ‘Spray More Get More’ campaign which features women transforming into out-of-control-sex-maniacs the second they smell Lynx on a man. Collective Shout has also exposed the sexism […]
The brutalisation of girls In the past couple of weeks I’ve met or heard from young girls whose experiences give further disturbing insight into just how bad things are for girls right now. A 12-year-old girl approached me after I addressed the question ‘Are girls being treeated as sex objects?’ before an audience in Sydney’s […]
More Reasons to Hate Lad’s Mags: Zoo advises spurned lover to slash ex girlfriend’s face I’ve written before about lad’s magazines which thrive on the objectification of women and act as porn training wheels for boys. Now Zoo has run an advice column by British hardman actor Danny Dyer urging a heartbroken reader to “cut his […]
Lindsay Lohan goes with the (blood) flow [Trigger warning. Images of violence, self-harm] It seems nothing is off limits to be sexified for the purposes of grabbing attention and flogging stuff, whether it be a company’s products, a music video, or reviving a celebrity’s flagging career. Glamourising violence against women as sexy is the latest […]
Plus: Grand Theft auto gamer’s instruction video for best way to murder prostituted women And Calvin Klein’s new men’s underwear ad: No, we don’t want to see your d—k. Elizabeth at My Milk Spilt, whose piece on Facebook and violence against women I published here the other day, has now written about an experience she had […]
Since my last piece on the cyberbullying taking place through Facebook, other sites targeting girls for their alleged flaws have been found. One identifying young women not considered “marriage material”. Another naming and shaming ‘12-year-old sluts’. Another for girls labelled “bitches”. British girl Poppy Bracey recently took her life as a result of a cyber bullying campaign […]
It was a remarkable case of playing fast and loose with the truth – even by the standards of the Australian Sex Party (ASP). Kids Free 2B Kids expose on ‘pseudo’ child pornography flooding corner stores, milkbars and petrol stations (including 7-Eleven and McDonald’s-Fuelzone) was turned into a claim that Australia had banned small breasted women in pornography. This […]
Came across this on Girl w/ Pen. These tips put the responsibility where it should be: 1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior. 2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone! 3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault […]
