'Magazine' is loaded to open fire

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I never ever thought I would agree with a women's group.

Style with substance: The cover of Faking It, a new research paper in a glossy magazine style, on the side-effects of sexualised messages on women and girls.

The mock magazine-style publication, Faking It, will be launched next month in Melbourne.

The forum's founding director, Melinda Tankard Reist, said the 18-month-old organisation, set up to enhance the dignity, rights and wellbeing of women, said the issue of sexualised women and girls had encouraged more women to join.

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The research paper introduction says magazines:

â– Portray women as sexual objects.

â– Encourage women and girls to reject traditional roles in favour of independence, but still tell them to sexually satisfy a man.

â– Say women have never-ending sexual appetites and must be continually available.

â– Tell teenage girls how to make themselves desirable to get a boyfriend.

â– Portray life as a struggle for survival, with risky and unstable relationships.

â– Present the same ideas about sex as Playboy and Cosmopolitan â۠that women exist as decorative bodies to look good and sexually satisfy men.

Girls and women can be affected by these messages, the research paper says, and this can contribute to reduced self-esteem, lower abilities at intellectual tasks, less physically active lives, self-harm, depression, eating disorders and sexual disorder.

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With SAM FREESTONE

IN SEARCH OF A BETTER IMAGE

MELINDA TANKARD REIST"I feel the way things are heading is that we are teaching little girls to 'turn tricks'. I saw a seven-year-old swinging around a pole in a train, like kids do, and she said to her dad: 'Look at me, Daddy, I'm a pole dancer'. How does this little girl even know what a pole dancer is? It just reinforced for me how imbedded this sexual messaging is in the culture."

Author and writer on women's health issues

SELENA EWING"Feeling fat and ugly has become normal for young women. They need to know that their value is not how they look or how 'sexy' they are, or whether or not they have a boyfriend. I'd love women's magazines to take on the issue of sexual objectification and really promote women's dignity and worth just for who they are, without needing to look a certain way …"

Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, SA

KAREN ROBINSON"These messages pigeonhole women into specific roles in our culture and undermine the nature of their true value and contribution in all spheres of life. I want my boys to grow up with a healthy value and perspective that appreciates women as equals, not as objects."

Mango Leadership Group director

â– Mango Leadership group is a training organisation that assists women in business.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/mag...ge#contentSwap1

Edited July 21, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sounds like liberal femi-nazi propaganda to me.

[Ban Hammer 14,300]

Sounds like liberal femi-nazi propaganda to me.

then we have steven's magazine

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Charles, did you renew your prescription?

[almaty 19]

Charles, did you renew your prescription?

hey, i did brother charles, save some $$$, i send you my slightly soiled used copies to you...

Edited July 23, 2007 by almaty

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Sounds like liberal femi-nazi propaganda to me.

then we have steven's magazine