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Pages tagged "#MeToo"


Why is Frank Body asking young girls for naked selfies?

Posted on News by Melinda Tankard Reist · June 14, 2018 12:53 PM

Free from ‘toxic chemicals.’ Not free from toxic messages

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Miss America pageant drops swimsuit competition

Posted on News · June 11, 2018 7:00 PM

Organisers of the Miss America pageant have announced they will scrap both the swimsuit and evening gown portion of the competition.

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Leaving Blokesworld: Why You Can't Have Your Porn and #MeToo

Posted on News · March 12, 2018 12:28 PM

For #MeToo to truly be a reckoning for male sexual entitlement and cultural norms of sexual harassment, abuse and assault, we need to talk about porn.

In fact, it seems rather extraordinary that pornography hasn't figured much in the current #MeToo moment. We've heard a lot about how pop culture shapes harmful sexual scripts, but ignoring the role of porn in shaping pop culture is faintly ridiculous.

Pornography is ubiquitous. While more than three-quarters of Australian men report having watched pornography in the last year, younger cohorts are even more likely to consume pornographic material and use it habitually - on either a daily or weekly basis.

The increasing accessibility and acceptability of pornography have been mutually reinforcing.

A smart phone is now the dominant way in which (mostly male) consumers access online porn, thus moving pornographic content from the private realm of the home to virtually anywhere in the public sphere - including workplaces.

The workplace connection is more than mere speculation. Many online porn sites show their traffic is highest during standard working hours, suggesting access to pornography while at the office is relatively unremarkable. Which reminds me of an aside made by a sports journalist, some years ago, about a fellow colleague in the press box:

"tabbing between his match report and a constant stream of hardcore pornography ... The thing that initially staggered me was the sheer audacity of it, that the presence of both female and male colleagues, who were sitting metres away with clear views of his screen, hadn't been enough to deter him and that he felt perfectly comfortable doing it in full view. Welcome to Blokesworld."

The #MeToo movement has shown that we are quite capable of understanding the way movies, music and the mainstream media are implicated in shaping social norms of sex and sexuality. If we can manage this, then surely we can understand that the material most men masturbate to also deserves scrutiny.

So, for all the men who have been asking what they can do in light of #MeToo, here's a place start: stop linking your sexual arousal to women's sexual subordination. Stop watching porn.

Read the full article here.


"Times have changed": No more decorative women at car show

Posted on News · March 09, 2018 11:40 AM

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, a range of businesses and industries have been forced to re-examine their business practices. 

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“That feels like a sexual assault”: Men try to guess if scenarios are porn or #MeToo stories

Posted on News by Collective Shout · January 08, 2018 12:00 PM

Trigger warning: sexual abuse.

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