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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist &#187; Sexualisation</title>
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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>Equal opportunity objectification</title>
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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>Kate Ellis sends mixed messages with Grazia photo shoot</title>
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		<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>Making children vulnerable to sexual danger and harm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emma Rush, who co-wrote the Australia Institute reports Corporate Paedophilia: The sexualisation of children in Australia and Letting Children be Children: Stopping the sexualisation of children in Australia  and who I’ve published here before, wrote a response to a piece by Emma Tom in The Australian last weekend. It didn’t get published there, but it will get [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>It’s not just me: others question Gaga’s revelling in brutality</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/it%e2%80%99s-not-just-me-others-question-gaga%e2%80%99s-revelling-in-brutality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice to know I’m not the only one with a negative critique  (also published in On Line Opinion Friday)of the Lady Gaga machine. Here’s an extract from a piece by Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin titled ‘What’s Next From Lady Gaga: A snuff film?’  recently published on Huffington Post:
What if glitzy Lady Gaga is exactly what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Gaga over raunch dressed up as liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US pop juggernaut Lady Gaga is bursting on to Australian stages this week. The much hyped tour began in Sydney last night with the first of 13 all but sold-out concerts.
The 24-year-old New Yorker, christened Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, has sold eight million albums. While she&#8217;s here, we&#8217;ll hear all about how she&#8217;s avant-garde. Cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Slut Page Removed: but bullies still active</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/facebook-slut-page-removed-but-bullies-still-active/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Register This: CrazyDomainsissexist.com.au</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Just because it’s almost International Women’s Day, doesn’t mean a woman shouldn’t be reminded of her rightful place.
She may have overcome innumerable workplace obstacles to get where she is today. She may be allowed to join the boys in the boardroom. But that doesn’t mean her primary role has changed. She is still valued for [...]]]></description>
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