Tag: Girls

Vogue’s smouldering photo shoot of tarted up little girls no parody

Not satirising the culture. It is the culture Critics of the December-January French Vogue photo spread featuring little girls as mini women decorated in gaudy make up, swathed in luxurious adult women’s clothing, assembled on beds, fawning on animal skin rugs, pouting bright red moist lips under a banner ‘Cadeaux’ – little presents to be unwrapped – […]

Little girls don’t need tips on how to pick up boys

Girls’ Mag Watch: More Stereotyped and Limiting Messages for Girls This is the second installment of my review of  magazines for girls and young women, published by  Generation Next. For many girls, the magazines they read are their lifestyle bibles. How should they look, dress, act and relate? What’s important in life? Who should they look up […]

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, 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 […]

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’ the children as adults It’s always a pleasure to publish the work of Dr Emma Rush. A lecturer in ethics at Charles Sturt University, Emma is lead author of two significant reports on the sexualisation […]

Bratz may have had a makeover but hot, thin, sassy values remain the same

Still strutting their stuff Bratz dolls have undergone a makeover. Apparently they are more ‘demurely’ dressed and have less makeup. While the dolls may be marginally less skankified in appearance (and it really is marginal), the values they project remain the same. As shown on the company’s website, the Bratz dolls are still presented as […]

Trouble in girl world: pressured sex, assault, porn pics, bullying

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 […]

Glamourising Suicide

And making fun of suffering: does Girlfriend want to be seen as a mean girl? [Self harm trigger warning. If you need help, contact Suicide Prevention Australia ] So, we’ve just marked World Suicide Prevention Day. World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September promotes worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides. On average, almost 3000 […]

Girlfriend: We’re still waiting for the revolution

GF’s ‘reality check’ needs a reality check Revolution: a: a sudden, radical, or complete change b: a fundamental change in political organization; especially: the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed c: activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation d: a […]

Ugly, jealous, desperate, old: The attempt to silence women who speak out

Abuse not Argument Today I reprint an important blog post from Dannielle Miller of Enlighten Education. Danni is passionate about helping girls and young women be all they can be and has received many awards for her innovative approach to girls’ education. Danni, like many of us who engage in the public square, has received […]

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