He’s sexist and we know it: Collective Shout campaign called on Foo to be dumped Collective Shout’s Jas Swilks launched a campaign through Change.org late last year calling on Channel 7 to drop singerand X-Factor judge Red Foo, for his appalling rape culture fuelling song ‘Literally I Can’t’. The Change petition read in part: RedFoo […]
This isn’t an issue of personal taste but taking responsibility for harm done to real women News.com reports last tonight that Redfoo has ‘apologised’ to his fans after the backlash to his new track Literally I can’t (also see here). The message was posted on his Facebook page this yesterday afternoon. The message was for his […]
Read this. It is a thing of great beauty. Reprinted with permission See also: He’s sexist and we know it: Calling on X Factor to cut ties with Redfoo and make a stand against rape culture Redfoo threatens to sue Melbourne blogger
Sign the petition, tell Channel 7’s X Factor there’s no place on their show for men who promote rape culture and to cut ties with Redfoo Jas Swilks/Collective Shout “You’re an annoying slut cos you’re talking” – Red Foo RedFoo has just released his new collaboration with Lil Jon, Play-N-Skillz and Enertia McFly ‘; named […]
Why I want to stop Snoop Dog from visiting Australia I am a 24 year old activist with grassroots organisation Collective Shout. You may know me from my anti-violence campaign against US rapper, Tyler the Creator who verbally abused me at his all ages Sydney show last year. Just before Christmas I learned that Snoop […]
Give me Adele any day I should probably declare an interest before I post these two articles which I’ve wanted to share with you for awhile. I love Adele. I only discovered her recently. Her song ‘Someone like you’ did me in. Have a listen. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY[/youtube] And her cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel […]
New song by Delta’s man feeds rape myth Can someone please tell Brian McFadden that ‘taking advantage’ of a woman when she’s drunk is sexual assault and against the law? Because he seems to have missed the announcement. The Irish singer-songwriter and ‘honorary’ Australian on account of his four-year engagement to songstress Delta Goodrem, McFadden […]
How convenient to caricature someone whose work you oppose by reducing them to a cartoon parody. Like I haven’t had enough Helen Lovejoy clichés to last a lifetime? Oh, and look, another media studies academic watching The Simpsons. Are we impressed yet? Where Stephen Harrington sees “a graphic critique of post-feminist female sexuality”, I see […]
How do you know when a teenage girl singer is now all grown up? What are the tell-tale signs that she has left the foolishness of her immature girly days behind and become a real woman? Her coming-of-age is easy to detect. She will launch a sexy new look and a song that tells us […]
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Nice to know I’m not the only one with a negative critique (also published in On Line Opinion Friday)of the Lady Gaga machine. Here’s an extract from a piece by Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin titled ‘What’s Next From Lady Gaga: A snuff film?’ recently published on Huffington Post: What if glitzy Lady Gaga is exactly […]
Self Love In an interview in this month’s Playboy, John Mayer says he can’t keep his hands off himself. Giving new meaning to narcissism, Mayer says he prefers an intimate night in with his computer to a night out with a real live woman. Even when he’s with a real woman, Mayer confesses he is just […]
