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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist &#187; sexual assault</title>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<title>‘A violent soul destroying act’: one girl’s story.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ [Warning. May be triggering for survivors of sexual assault] 
Last week I commented on the case of a 12-year-old girl pimped then raped by 120 men over a six week period. The media reporting said the men had “had sex with” the girl. I questioned this language, believing it minimised what had actually been done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They didn&#8217;t &#8220;have sex&#8221; with the girl: they raped her</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, another example of  how rape is not named as rape.
The Australian reports today on a 51-year-old Hobart man found  guilty of  prostituting a 12-year-old girl. Men were charged $100 for half an hour, with $50 extra for &#8216;no condom&#8217;. One man used her to make pornography. The report states that 120 men were alleged  &#8220;to have had [...]]]></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>Facebook Slut Page Removed: but bullies still active</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
On the weekend &#8211; on the eve of International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; I wrote about a Facebook slut page, arguing it enabled cyber bullying, stalking and harassment. On the page, photos were posted of girls and women who were labelled &#8217;sluts&#8217;. One was 10-years-old. Another had been bashed (she deserved it, she was a slut). A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook’s New Slut Page: a monument to girl hatred</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/facebook%e2%80%99s-new-slut-page-a-monument-to-girl-hatred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since when did it become okay to hate women and girls so publicly and to judge them so mercilessly? 
There’s a new page on Facebook. It’s only two weeks old but already has more than a million members. I’m not going to post the link but of course it is easy to find. You don’t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for love on Valentine’s day? You won’t find it here</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/02/looking-for-love-on-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-you-won%e2%80%99t-find-it-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fancy some violence on Valentine’s Day?
Came across this, which is doing the rounds on some Facebook sites:
“I’ve got a Valentines poem that has never yet failed to get me into a girls knickers. . .  Here we go then . . .  Roses are red, Violets are blue, I&#8217;ve got a knife now get in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t let the bullies win: five things to do if you are bullied or sexually harassed at work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Following my blog posts on the death-by-bullying case of Brodie Panlock, I asked my friend and colleague Sarah McMahon, (above), a consultant psychologist and accredited mediator who has counseled many victims of workplace bullying, to provide advice to those who are subjected to bullyling at work.

Keep detailed notes of events- and keep these as matter-of-fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Government to strengthen child pornography laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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The Federal Government is moving to strengthen the nation&#8217;s child sex exploitation laws.
Until now it hasn&#8217;t been an offence to be a member of a child pornography network. If the bills are passed by Parliament that will change and the offence will attract a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail. &#62;more
About time. Will be [...]]]></description>
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