What are we teaching boys about women when soccer clubs fundraise like this?
The Para Hills West Soccer Club in Adelaide seems to have missed the memo. By Coralie Alison With a new focus on objectification of women, abuse, violence, sexism and misogyny, Para Hills West decides not only to host a ‘Men’s Night’ fundraiser – but advertise it at the club for all the junior boys to […]
‘I just became an object’: the porn driven experiment on young people’s sexuality
Over exposure is making teens pawns to porn A 15-year-old boy confided in me after I addressed his class at a Sydney school last year. He cried as he told me he had been using porn since the age of nine. He didn’t have a social life, had few friends, had never had a girlfriend. […]
Petition launched to stop US child beauty pageants in Australia
Calling on Federal Minister Peter Garrett and Victoria counterpart Wendy Lovell to intervene Collective Shout has initiated a petition in response to the news that a US pageant company plans to import its child beauty competitions to Australia. You can find the petition on the Care2 petition site . Please sign and circulate it through […]
Death, sex, sport: all dad needs for father’s day
Men are stereotyped too Came across this father’s day ad in The Weekend Australia magazine. Right here we have a snapshot of the stereotypes that limit men and contribute to socialising them into standard – and often harmful – ways of behaving. The ad spruiks six SBS DVDs for dad. The first is ‘The Killing’, the second […]