My first column with Fairfax As a teenage girl growing up in country Victoria, I was an avid reader of The Age. It inspired in me a passion for journalism. I did work experience on the local paper and went on to study journalism at RMIT. I scored a cadetship and began my life as […]
Your taxes at work: harassment and intimidation treated with indifference – why I went public There’s a feature piece in The Australian today by Chris Kenny. ‘The Unkindness of Strangers’, subtitled: ‘When an ugly post goes viral via social media, victims find there is very little they can do about it.’ Sexism, pornography, social media, […]
Girl Mag Watch: Dolly January 2013 In its first edition for the year, Dolly brings readers some important content to help them launch into 2013. ‘Sexism: what’s it all about?’ examines how gender-based prejudice and discrimination is alive and well. Women continue to be paid less than men and hold a tiny proportion of board […]
Spectrum Daiquiri Bar in Brisbane has been the target of an online backlash for naming its cocktails “Winey Bitch” and “Red Headed Slut.” Hundreds have posted comments on Spectrum’s Facebook page in response to a post asking for general feedback about the venue. Spectrum’s management responded to criticism saying that they will take it […]
Nena and Pasadena encouraged jokes about raping women with their reply, ‘Keep em coming guys – this is very entertaining!’ The Australian Football League proudly partners with the White Ribbon Campaign to stop violence against women. According to the White Ribbon website : The AFL (Australian Football League) is committed to tackling the issues of […]
Encouraged, once again, by a man who cares about the (mis) treatment of women and girls in our world. I’ve published Melbourne writer Guy Sigley before, here he is again, in a perfect follow up to the previously published piece on ‘Hollaback!’, the new campaign against sexual harassment. Dear universe, can we have some more men […]
‘There was no discussion of the pressure girls like Amanda experience to measure their worth through their sexual desirability’ By Meghan Murphy The tragic story of Amanda Todd has been covered widely by the media and has impacted people across the continent. Todd was only fifteen years old when she killed herself last Wednesday after […]
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 BY GUY SIGLEY WARNING: This post contains the kind of offensive, misogynistic and sexually explicit material you are likely to encounter going about your daily life as a citizen of Planet Earth. Well, in The West anyway. With an Internet connection. And a radio. You get the idea. Dean takes a deep […]
“When a woman believes that a man is focusing on her body, she narrows her presence by spending less time talking” This post is two years old, but as nothing has changed, I thought I’d bring it to my reader’s attention. Posted by Ed Yong on January 12, 2010 For something intangible, a glance […]
Lad’s mag pretends to apologise a·pol·o·gy noun, plural a·pol·o·gies. a written or spoken expression of one’s regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another I find myself pondering the question: do the editors at Zoo Weekly Magazine understand what an apology is? This week a Change.org petition, initiated by Collective Shout […]
