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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist</title>
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	<description>Challenging Popular Culture</description>
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		<title>Miley Cyrus conforming to sexualised coming-of-age music industry scripts</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/05/miley-cyrus-conforming-to-sexualised-coming-of-age-music-industry-scripts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know when a teenage girl singer is now all grown up?
What are the tell-tale signs that she has left  the foolishness of her immature girly days behind and become a real woman?
Her coming-of-age is easy to detect.
She will launch a sexy new look and a song that tells us how hot she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field of Women Live: support breast cancer fundraiser tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 22:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now a more positive and affirming story about breasts than the one before it.
 The Australian Breast Cancer Network&#8217;s Field of Women Live fundraiser event takes place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground tomorrow.
The event will see 14,000 women and men standing together in pink ponchos to form the Pink Lady silhouette on the MCG, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys, Babes and Balls: Hooters mascots for U16 boys footy</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/05/boys-babes-and-balls-hooters-mascots-for-u16-boys-footy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://melindatankardreist.com.au/?p=1554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hooters&#8221; is a euphemism for breasts in common parlance 

Hooters  is an American restaurant chain specialising in beer, wings and “beautiful girls”.
Beautiful girls with beautiful Hooters, of course.
In its latest move to further market its brand and help the “desperate” club,  Hooters has hooked up with an under 16 boys football team on the Gold [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>You look so good in blood! Violence is, like, so hot right now</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/05/you-look-so-good-in-blood-violence-is-like-so-hot-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/05/you-look-so-good-in-blood-violence-is-like-so-hot-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan goes with the (blood) flow

[Trigger warning. Images of violence, self-harm]
It seems nothing is off limits to be sexified for the purposes of grabbing attention and flogging stuff, whether it be a company’s products, a music video,  or reviving a celebrity’s flagging  career.
Glamourising violence against women as sexy is the latest trend. Blood has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex offender dad gets access to daughters: Why?</title>
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		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/sex-offender-dad-gets-access-to-daughters-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I briefly mentioned a Tasmanian case in which a father, a registered sex offender convicted of possessing child pornography, was given visitation right to his two daughters. I thought the story warranted a more in-depth examination, so I asked Caroline Norma to take a closer look. Caroline is a PhD candidate with the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Girl Slavery in America</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/girl-slavery-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/girl-slavery-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ‘Girl Slavery in America’, a recent post published on Huffington Post, Executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, Malika Saada Saar, highlights (like this earlier piece I published) that there is a marketplace for the bodies of girls in the West as well as other parts of the world.  She also makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Summers sees the light on hypersexualisation: but won&#8217;t go all the way</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/anne-summers-sees-the-light-on-hypersexualisation-but-wont-go-all-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/anne-summers-sees-the-light-on-hypersexualisation-but-wont-go-all-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Anne Summers review of Natasha Walter’s Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism was published in the Australian’s Review section on the weekend.

In the review, titled ‘The tyranny of self-perfection’, the long-time Australian feminist campaigner for women’s equality admits she had “no idea” about how bad things were for girls in a hypersexualised culture:
&#8230;This reviewer has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexualisation, sexism, unwanted sex, spectacular rape</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/sexualisation-sexism-unwanted-sex-spectacular-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/sexualisation-sexism-unwanted-sex-spectacular-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sexualisation, pressured sex, pornified music video clips, Kiely Williams PR campaign for the women-love-rape movement,  a little boy having his wish to go to a strip club granted, leg waxing for little girls, sexism in Christine Nixon reporting: a selection of articles from the last couple of weeks reflecting the status of women and girls. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Equal opportunity objectification</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/equal-opportunity-objectification/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/equal-opportunity-objectification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Women buying men for sex is not equality
Women, we&#8217;ve arrived. We&#8217;re equal now with men. The conditions for equality have been met. Am I talking about political, social and financial equality? No.
Access to maternity leave, child care, the opportunity to balance work and family life? No. The ability to live free from harassment and sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set up for a fall: why I pulled out of internet filtering debate</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/set-up-for-a-fall-why-i-pulled-out-of-internet-filtering-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/set-up-for-a-fall-why-i-pulled-out-of-internet-filtering-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                                                     
Earlier in the year I was asked to take part in the Intelligence Squared debate on internet filtering organised by the St James Ethics Centre. I agreed. I have since changed my mind. In this letter to the producer, I explain why.
 
 
 
Ms Deb Richards
St James Ethics Centre, Sydney
Dear Ms Richards,
After significant consideration, I am writing to [...]]]></description>
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