‘We have made huge gains in becoming aware of the realities of many women’s and girl’s lives, and have a greater understanding of what can be done to call men to account and invite them to change’ As readers would know, I’m always encouraged when men decide to speak out against the objectification of women, […]
Sandilands: offensive, and more Helen Pringle in On Line Opinion Kyle Sandilands has received a trouncing over the last few days for being rude and offensive. But criticisms of his behaviour on the grounds of offensiveness miss the mark in regard to the latest incident involving him and his chef de claque. Sandilands certainly takes […]
Promoting violence for White Ribbon day This week radio host Karl Sandilands called a female journalist who had written a piece about his poorly rating TV show a ‘fat slag’, ‘piece of shit’, with ‘not enough titty’ who should ‘watch her mouth’ or he would ‘hunt her down’. The words are distressing enough to read. […]
If policewomen have the same ‘power, confidence and authority’ as policemen, why can’t they be dressed like them? This is a sculpture that Melbourne artist Frank Malerba wants The City of Port Phillip to install outside a hotel in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.The sculptural pieces are each 2.4 metres high and depict three policewomen. Titled […]
Immigration Minister called on to investigate My friend and colleague Nicole Jamison has launched a petition through Change.org calling on the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen to investigate Prospective Spouse Visas for underage girls. The petition reads: More than 200 17-year-old girls have been granted Prospective Spouse visas over the past five years. […]
‘ Women are supposed to be sexual objects, we’re still not supposed to be thinking, feeling, complex human beings. It is due to the continual representation of women as just beauties, the attempt to reduce women to a surface on which we project sexuality. So we’re not real people’. The electronic vilification of Australian women […]
Sydney escort agency trading in a woman’s vulnerability The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday that a Sydney escort agency, My Out Call, was auctioning the virginity of a 19-year-old female Chinese student on line. According to the report, the student was in debt. There were already a number of rival bidders offering up to $15,000 to use […]
The anti-rape pact we really need By Alison Grundy I am infuriated by the continued and deliberate misrepresentation of the crime of rape by the media and various ‘experts’, such as NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione. As a clinical psychologist, manager and supervisor in the field of sexual assault for 21 years I have been […]
Heather Horne and Helen Pringle on porn discrimination in the workplace Last week, Tony Abbott was photographed at a manufacturing company beneath a pornographic calendar image. In a piece titled ‘Naked truth: Factory life laid bare for Tony Abbott’ News.com concealed part of the woman-on-woman porn image with “Oops”. The reporter characterised it as an issue […]
‘The central issue about pornography for a woman on the left like me is sexual subordination and how to end it’ Opponents of pornography are prudes, moralisers, hung up about sex and want to put all women in burqas . Right? Not exactly. Dr Helen Pringle tackles these weary and predictable stereotypes in a piece […]
“A decisive narrowing of media representations of women” A new study by Erin Hatton, PhD, and Mary Nell Trautner, PhD, assistant professors in the Department of Sociology, Buffalo University, has found sexualised imagery of women has increased a massive 89 percent from the 1960s to the present. The authors of ‘Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization […]
An “ironic patriotic comment on capitalist recruitment and identity” says Roger David. In January last year I wrote about how Roger David’s menswear store was expanding from daggy men’s cardies into the violence and abuse t.shirt genre, I wanted to know why the men’s brand thought it acceptable to pimp porn-industry inspired messages about what women […]
