A threat to women. A disgrace to his profession This extract, quoting the mother of Grace Bellavue (Pippa O’Sullivan) is taken from ‘Sex Worker. Writer. Activist. Social Media Star. Who was the real Grace Bellavue?’ by Caroline Overington (writing in The Weekend Australian, September 10-11, and in the online version ‘Who was the real Grace […]
‘ 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 […]
Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has included Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry in a cover essay in the latest edition of The Monthly. Fine writes: “The men in porn are little more than scaffolding for their erections but it is the women who are the product, and who […]
War of Words Christine Jackman, The Weekend Australian, June 04, 2011 THIS much Nina Funnell knows about the man who held a box-cutter blade to her throat on an autumn’s evening in May 2007. She knows he had an olive complexion. She knows he had bushy eyebrows and a five o’clock shadow. She knows – […]
“Muffin-tops turn it on for Oprah”: mocking her female fan base Why say this: “Thousands of women, aged between 30 to 70, gathered in Federation Square to welcome Oprah Winfrey to Australia”. When you can say this: “…30-to 70-something women…crammed their muffin-tops into Federation Square”. And turn it into a heading that says this: “Muffin-tops […]
