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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist &#187; violence</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>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/04/sex-offender-dad-gets-access-to-daughters-why/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/%e2%80%98a-violent-soul-destroying-act%e2%80%99-one-girl%e2%80%99s-story/</link>
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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>Would you like some popcorn with your extreme violence sweetheart?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article in the Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend about Kick-Ass, a school holidays film starring an 11-year-old girl who shoots a man in the face, impales another and says things like:
“OK, you c&#8212;s, let’s see what you can do now.” The film is described as containing  “scenes of carnage and massacre played for laughs.” Read [...]]]></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>Dads&#8217; “rights” gone mad: girls ordered to have overnight stays with child porn dad</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/dad%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-gone-mad-girls-ordered-to-have-overnight-stays-with-child-porn-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Overington writes in The Australian today that the Family Court has ordered two girls aged 8 and 10 to have sleepovers with their child sex offender father. As long as there’s a lock on the bedroom door. This man has filmed child pornography and created links to child porn sites. He also previously invited [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/bitches-sluts-not-marriageable-too-pretty-is-any-girl-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Facebook’s New Slut Page: a monument to girl hatred</title>
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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>After feminism: what are girls supposed to do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Abbi Marper is too shy to speak above a whisper, but she wants to be a policewoman or a nurse. Her friend Becky Billing is studying to be a plumber. Charlotte Wilson, the most chatty of the group, is having a problem narrowing her options. &#8220;I want to be a firefighter, but I also want [...]]]></description>
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