More Reasons to Hate Lad’s Mags: Zoo advises spurned lover to slash ex girlfriend’s face I’ve written before about lad’s magazines which thrive on the objectification of women and act as porn training wheels for boys. Now Zoo has run an advice column by British hardman actor Danny Dyer urging a heartbroken reader to “cut his […]
Lindsay Lohan goes with the (blood) flow [Trigger warning. Images of violence, self-harm] It seems nothing is off limits to be sexified for the purposes of grabbing attention and flogging stuff, whether it be a company’s products, a music video, or reviving a celebrity’s flagging career. Glamourising violence against women as sexy is the latest […]
Last month I briefly mentioned a Tasmanian case in which a father, a registered sex offender convicted of possessing child pornography, was given visitation right to his two daughters. I thought the story warranted a more in-depth examination, so I asked Caroline Norma to take a closer look. Caroline is a PhD candidate with the […]
[Warning. May be triggering for survivors of sexual assault] Last week I commented on the case of a 12-year-old girl pimped then raped by 120 men over a six week period. The media reporting said the men had “had sex with” the girl. I questioned this language, believing it minimised what had actually been done […]
Today, another example of how rape is not named as rape. The Australian reports today on a 51-year-old Hobart man found guilty of prostituting a 12-year-old girl. Men were charged $100 for half an hour, with $50 extra for ‘no condom’. One man used her to make pornography. The report states that 120 men were alleged “to have […]
Plus: Grand Theft auto gamer’s instruction video for best way to murder prostituted women And Calvin Klein’s new men’s underwear ad: No, we don’t want to see your d—k. Elizabeth at My Milk Spilt, whose piece on Facebook and violence against women I published here the other day, has now written about an experience she had […]
On the weekend – on the eve of International Women’s Day – I wrote about a Facebook slut page, arguing it enabled cyber bullying, stalking and harassment. On the page, photos were posted of girls and women who were labelled ‘sluts’. One was 10-years-old. Another had been bashed (she deserved it, she was a slut). A […]
Since when did it become okay to hate women and girls so publicly and to judge them so mercilessly? There’s a new page on Facebook. It’s only two weeks old but already has more than a million members. I’m not going to post the link but of course it is easy to find. You don’t […]
Fancy some violence on Valentine’s Day? Came across this, which is doing the rounds on some Facebook sites: “I’ve got a Valentines poem that has never yet failed to get me into a girls knickers. . . Here we go then . . . Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve got a knife now […]
Following my blog posts on the death-by-bullying case of Brodie Panlock, I asked my friend and colleague Sarah McMahon, (above), a consultant psychologist and accredited mediator who has counseled many victims of workplace bullying, to provide advice to those who are subjected to bullyling at work. Keep detailed notes of events- and keep these as […]
The Federal Government is moving to strengthen the nation’s child sex exploitation laws. Until now it hasn’t been an offence to be a member of a child pornography network. If the bills are passed by Parliament that will change and the offence will attract a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail. >more About time. […]
A young woman known as Amy is seeking payment from consumers of pornographic videos and pictures that depicted her abuse. >more I hope she -and others like her – extract millions from the men who fuel the demand for the creation of child sexual assault images.
