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	<title>Melinda Tankard Reist &#187; women</title>
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		<title>Would you like some popcorn with your extreme violence sweetheart?</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/would-you-like-some-popcorn-with-your-extreme-violence-sweetheart/</link>
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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>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>
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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>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/living-dolls-the-return-of-sexism/</link>
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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>John Mayer Loves Himself</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/your-body-is-john-mayers-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self Love
In an interview in this month&#8217;s Playboy, John Mayer says he can&#8217;t keep his hands off himself. Giving new meaning to narcissism, Mayer says he prefers an intimate night in with his computer to a night out with a real live woman.
Even when he&#8217;s with a real woman, Mayer confesses he is just using her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A special IWD treat from the Australian Archives: The case against female trade commissioners</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/03/a-special-iwd-treat-from-the-australian-archives-the-case-against-female-trade-commissioners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<title>UK Home Office just released Sexualisation of Young People Review by Dr Linda Papadopoulos.</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/02/uk-home-office-just-released-sexualisation-of-young-people-review-by-dr-linda-papadopoulos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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The UK Home Office just released the Sexualisation of Young People: Review by Dr Linda Papadopoulos. It is a compelling, thorough and strongly evidence-based paper which should be read by anyone concerned about the impacts of the pornification of culture on girls and boys. Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls is cited a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTR in the media this week</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com.au/2010/02/mtr-in-the-media-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Transcript of ABC&#8217;s Q&#38;A in which precious minutes are wasted as I try to explain the term &#8217;skanky hos&#8217;
Melinda Tankard Reist: What would have been controversial would have been if Tony Abbott had said: “I want my daughters to be skanky hos.” Then you might have had a controversy.
Satyajit Das: Sorry, what is a “scanty [...]]]></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>But Wait, There’s More: Why Does Supre Treat Little Girls This Way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I was really hoping to focus on something other than anti-women t-shirts this week  and blog on a topic which might hopefully maintain the interest of the 13,000 people who visited this site in the past four days in response to global coverage of objectifying items of apparel.
But just as I was tossing [...]]]></description>
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