You can’t have it both ways — if you want people to be feminists, and engage in active political protest, you can’t then police the way they choose to do it, writes Karen Pickering.
Sexualisation
The day Lady Gaga made it into Australian parliament
Last week, NSW Labor MP Greg Donnelly remarked that singers like Beyonce and Lady Gaga are encouraging sexual violence against women with their raunchy attitudes. Um, that’s not quite how rape occurs, writes lauredhel.
That icky little thing called sex
Oh no, our children are wearing “shag bands”?! Further proof of child sexualisation. Except… those bands have been popular for generations. Rachel Hills writes on teenage sex hysteria.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Crikey readers get fiesty about The Chaser (a week and counting…), child sexualisation and Australia’s relationship with Israel.
You don’t have to be Humbert Humbert to see child sexualisation
The uncovering of hard evidence that David Jones set out to sexualise children in its advertising makes monkeys out of the small band of media academics who leapt to the defence of the retailer.
Disney’s favourite daughter is a normal teenager shock
Like Britney Spears before her, Miley Cyrus has been deliberately marketed as a Lolita: both innocent and knowing, sexy but not s-xual. Which has now led to inevitable controversy, writes Jeff Sparrow.
