POSTED BY IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Apr 17, 2014 | 0 comments
Turning the tables on media sexism
New video recasts the gender roles played by men and women in adverts. In the video ‘If Women’s Roles in Ads Were Played by Men’, BuzzFeed recreates ads, including those by GoDaddy, which were recently targeted by the Representation Project’s #NotBuyingIt app, and Doritos. While there’s sometimes nothing wrong with campaigns featuring a little sex and humour, BuzzFeed calls out companies for their repeated objectification of women. The spoofs, which are played alongside the...
POSTED BY IN Campaigns, Featured ON Mar 10, 2014 | 0 comments
Stop ignoring dead women
The Home Office has hidden the reality of men’s lethal violence against women and girls for too long. Karen Ingala Smith is petitioning Theresa May to stop ignoring dead women. This is why: On New Year’s Day, 2012, 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar got a text from her boyfriend Myles Williams: “Okay wer all gud now and my new yrs ressy is that I aint going to hit u again and I won’t hit u 4 this yr next yr the yr after that the next yr after that.” The next day he broke into her...
POSTED BY IN Featured, Society ON Mar 8, 2013 | 0 comments
The case for naming rape defendants
Other victims find the courage to speak out when they know that their rape was not an isolated incident. Head of the Bar Council, Maura McGowan QC, has said that alleged rapists should be given anonymity until they are convicted. Raising the debate again. Speaking on BBC Radio 5 recently, McGowan said that: “Until [defendants] have been proven to have done something as awful as this – I think there is a strong argument in cases of this sort, because they carry such a stigma with...
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