Attempt to silence critics fails: trends on twitter So there I was relaxing on the couch under two blankets wearing two pairs of socks and my puffy jacket, with a block of chocolate and LSD* beside me, unwinding to the Chaser’s Election Desk on ABC TV Wednesday night. Suddenly, I see what looks like classic […]
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 […]
Governments and regulatory bodies continue to ignore the culture drivers fueling sexist attitudes and behaviours This week we’ve had big name global clothing companies General Pants, Calvin Klein and Queensland fast food eatery, Burger Urge, in our sights. GP and CK are repeat offenders. It’s the first time this slimy burger chain has come to […]
Suit supply ad campaign uses larger-than-life-sexual objectification of women As published at Collective Shout But the male CEO of the fashion label suggests the ads are sexist towards men – we’re #notbuyingit Fashion label Suit Supply has a history of using sexist and objectifying images of women to promotes its menswear range. In an article published at […]
As published at Collective Shout Earlier this year UltraTune launched its new series of television commercials which attracted substantial criticism from the broader community. UltraTune opted to screen their ads during the Australian Open while families were watching the tennis. You can read about them in our earlier blog post here. We encouraged people to lodge a complaint with the […]
Melinda Tankard Reist Yesterday, American “pick-up” artist and “executive dating coach” Jeff (Jeffy) Allen had his Australian visa revoked by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. Allen’s tour – part of a Real Social Dynamics (RSD) global roadshow – was billed as “Meet Jeffy.” Those concerned about rising rates of violence against women and the callous mistreatment […]
Julien Blanc was deported. Why are his mates allowed in? Remember the time in 2014 we combined to get U.S ‘pick-up’ artist Julien Blanc booted out of Australia for promoting violence against women? We’d succeeded in persuading venues who had booked him to cancel. He then sneakily tried to hold his nasty little seminar on a […]
No, Chris Gayle, We Won’t ‘Move On’ from your Nationally Televised Sexism Melinda Tankard Reist – 5 Jan 2016 To sporting news now, and West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle has found closure from an incident this week in which he propositioned a female sports reporter live on air. After making a pass at Channel Ten […]
Last week I was one of 12 panelists on the ABC2 program ‘Australians on Porn’. I’d had my hesitations about participating, the producers assured me of fair treatment and a serious discussion how porn was shaping sexual attitudes and behaviours. What transpired was a wank fest and sex industry promotion. We saw and heard from […]
See also: “Zoo’s everyday sexism: Laura Pintur and MTR in media today” – MTR “23 year old Melbourne woman calls on Coles and Woolworths to stop selling sexist Zoo magazine” MTR “Why are Coles and Woolworths promoting rape culture?” MTR SIGN PETITION
Feminism is a movement not a self-help book On Wednesday at Readings bookstore in Carlton, Melbourne, I’ll be emceeing the launch and Q&A for Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism (Connor Court publishing) a collected of 20 authors edited by writer and law tutor Miranda Kiraly and writer and RMIT research fellow Meagan Tyler. […]
Collective Shout new recruit Laura Pintur, 23, has her first ever published piece: ‘Why I’m calling on Coles and Woolworths to dump Zoo magazine’ in Daily Life today. As signatures build to close to 10,000, Her campaign is being picked up all over the place. I also did a few radio interviews. This is just […]
