Calling Out Maccas on sexualized vids: like some soft porn with your fries kid?
Sign our petition! Maccas wants to be seen as a family-friendly restaurant and claims to care about the communities in which its global restaurant chains do business. But is that true when these are among some of the images playing on a music video loop in stores throughout Australia? Why do our kids have to […]
Objectification of women no problem for the Advertising Standards Board
More comedy gold from the ASB: except we’re not laughing [UPDATED] It’s no secret that the advertising industry’s preferred model of regulation, self-regulation, has failed. Despite various government inquiries exploring the many flaws in the current system, as well as condemnation from child health professionals and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) the advertising industry has been […]
Boobs are not news
No More Page 3 Campaign Poem by Sabrina Malouz Love this. And the voice! David Dinsmore: Take The Bare Boobs Out Of The Sun #nomorepage3 Petition by Lucy Holmes Hove, United Kingdom We are asking David Dinsmore to drop the bare boobs from The Sun newspaper. We are asking very nicely. Please, David. No More Page 3. […]
Single mothers are the heroines, not the villains
Melinda Tankard Reist Rosie became pregnant at 17 last year. She was labelled a slut. Melissa, 14, ran away from home so her parents couldn’t force her to have an abortion. Jackie, 33, had a violent partner who didn’t want their baby. There was no public housing available and refuges were full. She […]
The best defence of breastfeeding in public ever
Hollie McNish rejects public shaming for breastfeeding her daughter I have breastfed four babies. I’m a big fan. I know all the arguments to support it. But I’ve never heard anything quite like this. Listen to Hollie McNish, a published UK poet and spoken word artist, expose what it is like to be publicly shamed […]