One suicide is a tragedy. But what happens when a community is rocked by a series of suicides, one after another, all of them young people? Do the families mourn in private, fearful that expressing their grief publicly could result in more deaths? Or does the community come together, so that individual families can tell […]
‘How dare the elite media and privileged individuals who think themselves superior to the average mother, deride mothers and imply they’re not eligible for a view on how society should be improved?’ Caroline Norma The articles last week in New Matilda (Trixie Wellington), Crikey (Helen Razer) and ABC Unleashed (Lauren Rosewarne) were so nasty and […]
As published in the Sunday Herald Sun Aug 19 2012
Target has drawn fire from campaigners against the sexualisation of children for selling clothes considered sexually inappropriate for young girls Click on image to watch interview on ABC’s Lateline (just as an aside, I don’t ‘run’ Collective Shout. I am part of a founding board which takes responsibility for the organisation. The day to […]
I hope you are encouraged by this clip from the CBC Early Show about the campaign to remove a T-shirt marketed to young girls with the logo ‘”I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” It was great to see how quickly this took off, after one woman, […]
A number of Facebook pages have attracted media attention recently for offering an opportunity to rank a partner’s sexual ‘performance’. I have argued that the sites provide more opportunity for revenge and bullying through social networking pages (as if there isn’t enough of that already). Porn-inspired descriptions of various body parts appear to make up […]
The fetishisation of the female backside reached royal heights this week with the global worship of Pippa Middleton’s bum. The frenzied prostration before the bottom of HRH Catherine Middleton’s younger sister and bridesmaid highlights anew the objectification of women deeply entrenched in our culture. This in the Daily Mail: Many women admired her dress, but […]
And not insist on airbrushing disclosure for her own photo shoots? Recently I have had cause to ask Sarah Murdoch a few questions. They were picked up in the media the past couple of days, by NineMSN and the SMH. Sarah is co-host and executive producer of Australia’s Next Top Model. She also sits on the Government […]
Since when did it become okay to hate women and girls so publicly and to judge them so mercilessly? There’s a new page on Facebook. It’s only two weeks old but already has more than a million members. I’m not going to post the link but of course it is easy to find. You don’t […]
Fancy some violence on Valentine’s Day? Came across this, which is doing the rounds on some Facebook sites: “I’ve got a Valentines poem that has never yet failed to get me into a girls knickers. . . Here we go then . . . Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve got a knife now […]
