POSTS TAGGED OBJECT

“LADS” MAGS GOING TOP SHELF

Posted by Charlotte on February 25, 2010
Tags: hyperfemininity, Lads mags, masculisation, Object

That wooshing sound you can hear probably isn’t the wind, it might just be the collective exhaling of many grass-roots organizers and policy makers who have been fighting to push the ever more bare-chested ‘lad’s’ magazines out…

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IT'S HARD NOT TO HATE AMERICAN APPAREL

Posted by Charlotte on September 2, 2009
Tags: Advertising, News, Object

You know some bandwagons are all to easy to get on, and hating American Apparel and their increasingly skin crawling, porn lite, prepostorous adverts is one of those.

We all know Don Charney’s reputation for exploiting and sexually harassing…

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OH SISTER, I HAVEN'T MISJUDGED BEAUTY PAGEANTS OR WHY I DON'T AGREE WITH INDIA KNIGHT

Posted by Charlotte on July 26, 2009
Tags: Beauty Pageant, feminism, Object, Sport

Excuse the long rant, but…

I have a knee jerk reaction to columnists. Commenting on things is relatively easy, especially when you can frame everything by your own thoughts rather than research, rather than journalism. But before I get into…

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SATURDAY'S STOP PORN CULTURE FUN

Posted by Charlotte on June 14, 2009
Tags: Activism, Object, Porn, Violence Against Women

Rebecca Whisnant, prolific anti porn activist and author, lead an Object organised ‘Stop Porn Culture’ workshop on Saturday.

Rebecca flew all the way from the USA to lend us the combined experiences and information gathered over time…

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