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LESS AIRBRUSHING, MORE REALITY
Posted by Laura on August 5, 2009
Tags: Blogs, Body Image, Fat Politics, News
A short one…
Jo Swinson and the Liberal Democrat’s proposals for improving the media’s portrayl of women at Comment is Free.
Laura
LESSONS ON FORMING NONVIOLENT RELATIONSHIPS REALLY AS EASY AS ABC?
Posted by Laura on August 5, 2009
Tags: Articles, Children, Domestic Violence, Education, Fat Politics, News, Violence Against Women, Youth
Today’s The Daily Mail reported on Harriet Harman’s initiative to tackle domestic violence through compulsory lessons on forming healthy relationships for children five and upwards. Before I explain my views on Harman’s proposals, I just want to comment…
LIVE DEBATE: WHEN DID FEMINISM LOSE THE PLOT?
Posted by Charlotte on August 4, 2009
Tags: feminism, News
Point A. When you posit a question like ‘when did feminism lose the plot?’ what you’re saying it ‘feminism has lost the plot’ but you should be saying is ‘when did the mainstream media co-opt feminism as a buzz word…
"JAILBIRDS"
Posted by Charlotte on August 3, 2009
Tags: Prison, TV, Women and Crime
So. I’m not in the country at the moment (sorry, should have asked you to sit down first!) but I have sparked a little interest in something on the BBC and I was wondering if anyone had seen it, or…
BREAST OF BOTH WORLDS?
Posted by Charlotte on August 3, 2009
Tags: Body Politics, Breasts, News, Rant
When the first story based around the bare breasted backlash in France I grimaced at the fact the once again feminist thought and action are being only reported if they’re based entirely around our female forms – do we…
A MORAL LESSON FROM THE DAILY MAIL : YOU WHORES WILL PROBABLY GET WHAT'S COMING TO YOU
Posted by Charlotte on August 1, 2009
Tags: Daily Fail, Domestic Violence, News, Rant, Raunch Culture
The Daily Mail is a newspaper that can only be described as offensive to the feminist sensibilities, it is an odious rag that peddles dirty gender stereotypes, xenaphobia, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogony. But, it is a dirty rag that a…
