The fact that most people think feminists are man-haters is just incredulous when male-dominated culture spews women-hating narratives in our faces everyday. In collective women’s raped, tortured, butchered, abused, oppressed, stalked, harassed, shamed and blamed faces, everyday. Misogyny steals our lives and hurts so deep that dying becomes preferable to living. It hurts even more … Continue reading Stalking as sexy? Adam Levine pushes Robin Thicke off top spot as pop hero for misogynists
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Why a pole dancing display at a primary school fete is wrong
As well as being a devastatingly crap experience for many women working in the clubs, lap dancing and pole dancing clubs promote all women as sex objects.
Instead of What would you like to be? it’s Which Disney Princess would you like to be?
Cinderella and her princess pals have been taking over girlhood for a while but now it really is time to desist. There is no alternative for little girls to dress up as, no alternative for little girls in the role play castle at school, no superheroine, no female space detective, no astronaut, firefighter or pirate. … Continue reading Instead of What would you like to be? it’s Which Disney Princess would you like to be?
The end of cool: Who’s up for a Playboy party?
Pictures in the press of Kate Moss being all matey with Cooper Hefner following her first shoot for Playboy, signals the end of cool. Lending your name, and body parts, to Playboy is lending them to corporate misogyny.
Evening Standard sits back as model condones domestic violence
This week the Evening Standard gave Russian model Katia Elizarova the power to say something extremely damaging – to normalise male violence against women.
Remember Reeva
It's one month since Reeva Steenkamp was killed by a man who got famous. Coverage of her death has largely made that man more famous. Historically, men who kill women become anti-heroes or legends. I say let's remember Reeva.
Simon Cowell’s thumbs up to the sex industry as kids’ entertainment
ITV brought the sex industry to the kids again last night, with Simon Cowell giving a massive approval to the stripper who performed on Britain's Got Talent at 8pm, sending the message that stripping is fun for all the family and will get you places.
BBC3 tells the truth about rape
Bravo to BBC3 for its documentary, I Never Said Yes, about the rape epidemic in the UK.
CBeebies celebrates 10 years and a new show, Tree Fu Tom. Why not Tree Fu Tina?
In CBeebies, the females appear to be locked indoors. Is the controller on a quest to wipe out the female species from public view? OK, I’m exaggerating, but they’re not there much at all and if they do make an appearance, they are all too often pink and giddy.
While Object take on Girls Gone Wild, Madonna usefully poses in bra
The Daily Mail reports that a man called Joe Francis has been in a dispute with Madonna over her choice of track title, which originally had the same name as his company Girls Gone Wild.
Betty Bandit 