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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist &#187; objectification</title>
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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>Boys, Babes and Balls: Hooters mascots for U16 boys footy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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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		<title>You look so good in blood! Violence is, like, so hot right now</title>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>Equal opportunity objectification</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/equal-opportunity-objectification/</link>
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		<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>Existing beauty standards will not be compromised – even if Mr Airbrush takes a day off</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/existing-beauty-standards-will-not-be-compromised-%e2%80%93-even-if-mr-airbrush-takes-a-day-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[French-Marie Claire goes sans air brushing, but not sans camera tricks, makeup, lighting and models already near ‘perfect’.
French actress Louise Bourgoin graces the cover of this month’s edition of French Marie Claire &#8211; hailed as the “totally non-airbrushed April issue”. Leaving aside the fact that it’s not totally non-airbrused because the women in the ads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Ellis sends mixed messages with Grazia photo shoot</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/kate-ellis-sends-mixed-messages-with-simmering-grazia-photo-shoot/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/kate-ellis-sends-mixed-messages-with-simmering-grazia-photo-shoot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Youth Minister Kate Ellis wrote a terrific endorsement for my book Getting Real: challenging the sexualisation of girls. I was – and am &#8211; very grateful to her for doing so. Ms Ellis wrote:
Young women and girls today face extraordinary pressures to meet body image expectations that are unhealthy, unhelpful and unrealistic. The contributors to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If this is PG then what&#8217;s not?: Ke$sha gets down and dirty on &#8220;family friendly&#8221; dance show</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/if-this-is-pg-then-whats-not-kesha-gets-down-and-dirty-on-family-friendly-dance-show/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/if-this-is-pg-then-whats-not-kesha-gets-down-and-dirty-on-family-friendly-dance-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dannielle Miller from Enlighten Education, who I&#8217;ve run here before, has blogged on Channel 10 and its allegedly PG-rated show &#8216;So you think you can dance&#8217;. It brought to mind a clip I saw last week of Pamela Anderson on &#8216;Dancing With the Stars&#8217;. The male judge , totally beside himself, shouted: &#8220;All I could think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/living-dolls-the-return-of-sexism/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/living-dolls-the-return-of-sexism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I was startled by what some young women were saying to me about their inability to access dissent; their inability to hear voices that were presenting an alternative” – Natasha Walter
I’m half way through Natasha Walter’s new book Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism. It is a compelling read, laying bare the forces of sexualisation, [...]]]></description>
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