Four months ago, live on 2DAY FM, breakfast radio’s out and proud bad boy Kyle Sandilands verbally attacked News Limited online journalist Alison Stephenson. For commenting on his new poorly rating television show A Night with the Stars, Sandilands let forth with: Fat slag, bitch, troll, ugly, piece of shit, not much titty. “Watch […]
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry (Spinifex Press, edited by Dr Abigail Bray and me) is now appearing on bookstore shelves in the UK and North America. Host and producer of The F Word radio show and the executive editor of feminisms.org, Meghan Murphy interviewed me recently. It was good […]
ACT committee misses opportunity to address harms: ‘normalises prostitution, cuts back on regulation, waters down health safeguards’ Caroline Norma The chair of a committee appointed to review the ACT’s Prostitution Act took the significant step last week of attaching a 9-page appendix to the committee’s final report outlining her ‘dissent’ to its findings. In this […]
A young man taking the lead Now and then I stumble on a brave man passionate about the issues taken up here on the MTR blog. Recently I’ve made the acquaintance of Matthew Holloway. Only 26, Matthew’s written some compelling pieces in recent months on pornography, prostitution and rape-permission giving in men’s magazines. I thought […]
‘Shine your light by taking a stand, not by taking part. It’s not too late’ US supergroup Switchfoot will be performing and signing posters at City Beach Queen Street store in Brisbane this afternoon. While band members are at it with the pen and the posters, we’d like them to sign our Change.org petition calling […]
Sign here See also: PETA pimps its ethics, MTR, Weekly Times
By Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne Since the publication of Rachael Hills’s article “Who’s Afraid of Melinda Tankard Reist” (and see her reflections two weeks later) at least ten on-line and print media articles have joined in a public dissection and commentary along the lines of, “she’s a conservative religious fundamentalist” and “she’s pro-life and […]
Why I took part in 16 days of activism against gendered violence against women By Kate Ravenscroft “How frequently women are hurt and violated by the people they love. How rarely those criminals are brought to justice. How devastating the consequences of rape and gendered violence are. How effectively and irreparably violence against women destroys […]
‘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, […]
Magazines aimed at teen boys condition them to pro offending attitudes Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same language? Far from being harmless or ironic fun, lads’ mags could be legitimising hostile sexist attitudes, according to new research. Psychologists from Middlesex University and the University of Surrey found that when presented with descriptions […]
Wet t.shirt comp, simulated sex, ‘best tits’: young women as sexual fodder at end of school celebrations Scarlett from Victoria, wrote to me about her experience of Schoolies. I thought what she wrote deserved a wider audience and asked if I could reprint her letter. She agreed. After meaning to read your book Getting Real […]
Kyle Sandilands to stay on According to a report in the Daily Telegraph today, Southern Cross Austereo has no plans to move Kyle Sandilands on from his slot with Jackie O on 2DAYFM. This is despite widespread condemnation of his recent on-air abuse of a female News Ltd journalist in which he threatened to hunt […]
