12 y.o ‘Reader of the month’, 13 y.o model finalists… Girl Mag Watch October 2012 Reading the October issue (yes, I know, just scraping this review in in time) of Girlfriend, I found myself checking the front cover to make sure I’d picked up Girlfriend and not Dolly. I’m wondering if perhaps Girlfriend is moving […]
MTR on 2GB with Ben Fordham Radio host Ben Fordham interviewed me today about a Barbie Webcam he’d found in an electronics store. I argue that a webcam marketed to little girls is one more weapon in the corporate arsenal to groom girls for a lifetime of seeing themselves as on display in a culture […]
‘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 […]
Friday 19 October, 2012 • 9am-5pm: Sydney NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney The erosion of childhood is becoming a social and cultural trend of great concern to child development experts as well as the broader community. Commercialisation, sexualisation, body image dissatisfaction and over exposure to violent imagery are some of the key factors. […]
Men of the Year are dressed. Woman of the Year is not. Upmarket British men’s magazine GQ has declared for ‘Men of the Year’. Starring in the ’15th Annual Men of the Year Awards Special Issue’ is English rapper of Nigerian decent, Tinie Tempah; English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams (not just any old man of the […]
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 […]
‘A safe haven from the commercialisation and sexualisation of girlhood, a place full of gifts that inspire and enable girls to reach for the stars. A venue that will motivate and support artists, independent producers and businesses to innovate and to explore new products that have the potential to change the world’ One of the […]
‘How dare the elite media and privileged individuals who think themselves superior to the average mother, deride mothers and imply they’re not eligible for a view on how society should be improved?’ Caroline Norma The articles last week in New Matilda (Trixie Wellington), Crikey (Helen Razer) and ABC Unleashed (Lauren Rosewarne) were so nasty and […]
As published in the Sunday Herald Sun Aug 19 2012
Target has drawn fire from campaigners against the sexualisation of children for selling clothes considered sexually inappropriate for young girls Click on image to watch interview on ABC’s Lateline (just as an aside, I don’t ‘run’ Collective Shout. I am part of a founding board which takes responsibility for the organisation. The day to […]
Guest post by Guy Sigley, originally published at The World Tells Me Today’s post begins with an actual account of the meeting that took place when the Lynx ‘Clean your balls’ campaign was born.* It’s late on a Friday afternoon. Lynx executives sit side-by-side with the most brilliant minds in the advertising industry. They’re ready […]
“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 […]
