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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>
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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>But it’s not that violent: one teacher’s account of the impact of violence saturation on her students.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: Grand Theft auto gamer’s instruction video for best way to murder prostituted women
And Calvin Klein’s new men’s underwear ad: No, we don’t want to see your d—k.

Elizabeth at My Milk Spilt, whose piece on Facebook and violence against women I published here the other day, has now written about an experience she had in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitches, sluts, not marriageable, too pretty: Is any girl good enough?</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/bitches-sluts-not-marriageable-too-pretty-is-any-girl-good-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last piece on the cyberbullying taking place through Facebook, other sites targeting girls for their alleged flaws have been found.  One identifying young women not considered  “marriage material”.  Another naming and shaming ‘12-year-old sluts’.  Another for girls labelled “bitches”.  British girl Poppy Bracey recently took her life  as a result of a cyber bullying campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Sex Party caught out in attempt to hide reality of &#8216;teen porn&#8217; titles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable case of playing fast and loose with the truth &#8211; even by the standards of the Australian Sex Party (ASP).  Kids Free 2B Kids expose on &#8216;pseudo&#8217; child pornography flooding corner stores, milkbars and petrol stations (including 7-Eleven and McDonald’s-Fuelzone) was turned into a claim that Australia had banned small breasted women in pornography.
This attempt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/01/775/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Came across this on Girl w/ Pen.
These tips put the responsibility where it should be:
1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women blindfolded and gagged: the latest in men’s fashion from Roger David</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The try-hards at Roger David are promoting two new t-shirts for the boys, featuring women who are gagged, with strips across their eyes and semi-naked, as the latest fashion statement. 

The woman in the ‘Annie Hollywood’ t-shirt  (produced by ‘Blood Is The New Black’) looks as though she has been roughed up. She appears disheveled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting women on leashes and making trafficking sexy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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When we think of trafficking, we usually think of it as happening some-where-else, usually poor and desperate, and not in ‘enlightened’ Western countries. But that would be wrong: women and girls are traded everywhere. This forceful piece by Rachel Lloyd written for Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US, highlights mainstream corporate support for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh What a Feeling: my daughter is about to get a pounding</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2009/12/oh-what-a-feeling-my-daughter-is-about-to-get-a-pounding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the degradation of women, this was an ad with the lot.
Using lashings of sexual innuendo, the ad features a story line about a ‘horny’ boy’s quest to relieve a girl of her virginity in his new Toyota Yaris. He shares the details of his planned exploits …with the girl’s father.

The nudge-nudge [...]]]></description>
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