Anne Summers, in her new online magazine Anne Summers Reports, is very proud to have conducted Julia Gillard’s last major interview and clearly still very angry over how appallingly our recently ousted Prime Minister was treated by ‘so many in this country’. But before I come to the content of the interview, I will say […]
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All sexism is offensive but not all that is offensive is sexism.
June 18, 2013 
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You will often hear uttered, from women who don’t subscribe to the whole feminism package but who nevertheless wish to add their voice to the gender equality debate, that well known phrase ‘I’m not a feminist, but…’ You are less likely to hear, however, the phrase ‘I am a feminist, but…’ This is because the […]
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July 28, 2011 Comments Off on MEN SOLD FOR FOOLS
VB’s ‘Real Men’ campaign It is often said that media reflects and influences the cultural attitudes of the day. To date, there has been much talk about how women are portrayed in the media. Much analysis of the media has been influenced by the second wave of feminism, or the ‘women’s liberation’ movement, which came […]
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The Bowditch Pitch 
Does this ad make you LOL?
Have you checked out the latest Lynx ad yet? Have a peek here and see what you think: Yeah, I get the joke. They’re not really talking about sports balls, right? Clever? No. Funny? Not really. I find it pretty childish. And I have to ask myself: why does so much of our popular culture […]
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