A new game offered through the Google and iTunes stores has been slammed after its release last week. The free app is called ‘Plastic Surgery & Plastic Doctor & Plastic Hospital Office for Barbie Version.’ The simulation, for players nine and up, allows its users to perform liposuction on an‘unfortunate,’ larger woman. The game description…
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In a truly bizarre twist of events, a before and after shot of Cameron Diaz is now doing the rounds of Internet outrage. Contrary to what magazines usually do when they Photoshop a celebrity – tighten and tone everything to make them look smaller – these shots of Diaz show the opposite. The actress, who…
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A recent study has found that, despite what some anti-choice campaigners believe, receiving an ultrasound is not guaranteed to change a woman’s mind about having the baby aborted. Conservative anti-abortion campaigner, Rebecca Campos-Duffy, last year stated that, upon having an ultrasound, ‘upwards of 90 percent of [the women] decide not to have an abortion.’…
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Continuing on her path to becoming the Modern Day Saint of All Things Awesome, Beyoncé has penned a letter on the myth of gender equality. Over the weekend, Maria Shriver, along with the Center for American Progress released The Shriver Report, a national research paper on the status of American women. The report includes research…
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Victoria will become the first state to erase the criminal record of men who were previously convicted of having gay sex before homosexuality was decriminalised in the state in 1981. The state government announced the policy on Sunday at the launch of Midsumma, the state’s annual gay and lesbian event, to a crowd of over…
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Like many other people my age (read: twentysomething ladies), I’m totally excited about the return of highly successful HBO series, Girls, by Lena Dunham (writer & lead actor). If you’ve seen it, you’ve probably noticed how often Dunham is in the nude on the series and the media/blogosphere backlash against it. From sex scenes to…
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You may not have known that, until this week, in Italy, children of married couples were required by law to take their father’s surname. Required. By. Law. None of this ‘aww it’d be a nice nod to tradition for the kids to have his name’/ ‘his name sounds all sexy and Germanic and we’d obvs…
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Information regarding female asylum seekers’ conditions in Australian detention centres has recently come to public knowledge. In some of these centres, the women are forced to approach SERCO officers to ask for tampons or pads during their menstruation cycles, only to be given one or two at a time. Living in Australia and seeing Australian…
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In Fort Worth, Texas a Mrs. Munoz, brain-dead for the past few months, has been kept on life support despite her request to her husband that she did not want to be kept alive in such an instance. Why? Because she is pregnant. That’s why. Just before Thanksgiving in 2013 (that’s near the end of…
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Collecting clean water in India will soon become an easier process as the WaterWheel is set to be made available to citizens of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat states. The 50 litre rolling plastic drum manufactured by US social venture Wello will mainly help women – who traditionally collect water for their families – navigate…
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Iran is ditching free condoms and government-backed vasectomies in an effort to address the country’s aging population and low birth rates. For two decades the nation has successfully lowered their birth rate. But larger families are now being preached in an effort to promote a baby boom. The Iranian government are even offering gold coins…
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US women’s magazine, Elle has come under fire for its cover-selecting decisions after featuring a monochromatic close-up of The Office actress, Mindy Kaling. The image is starkly contrasted with its sister covers printed in a series on female television actresses: full body, colour shots of Zooey Deschanel, Allison Williams and Amy Poehler. The cover, which…
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In his new book The Conservative Revolution, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has made some provocative, outrageous claims in relation to abortion, step-families and industrial relations laws. These claims have caused the Federal Opposition to call upon Prime Minister Tony Abbott to completely dissociate from Bernardi’s ‘extraordinary reactionary agenda.’ Bernadi has accused women of using abortion…
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Actress Cameron Diaz has published her first ever book entitled The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, The Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body, in which there is a section entitled ‘In Praise of Pubes’. In an excerpt that is currently making its rounds around the Internet, Diaz encourages women…
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