Recently, some cast members of Fox TV show, Glee have posed for racy photographs for GQ magazine. For the assumedly very few who don’t know, Glee is a comedy/drama set in an American high school. The characters in the ‘glee club’ are often unpopular so they use the club to find friends, and presumably find…
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Recently, my university residential hall has established a men’s officer. Reading through blogs and opinion news sites, I feel conflicted about what role an officer supporting men has to play in this setting. For a very long time we’ve had a women’s officer whose role was never really clear in the first place. Once a…
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Recently, the French government has banned all religious veils that covers the face. So, while the hijab is still fine, other modes of covering up one’s body such as the burqa is not allowed. In the midst of debate as to whether certain cover-ups common in the Islamic world oppress women, is this an empowering…
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Female circumcision or female genital cutting (FGC) seems to be quite a grisly business. It’s often categorised alongside the many different acts of violence against women, made all the worse by the fact that, in some cultures, it’s ritualised. It is the unnecessary cutting or removal of female genitalia that is medically unnecessary – done…
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Whenever I talk to someone from the US education system, or hear about it on TV, I feel lucky to have gone through the Australian system. While we were taught about STDs and how to say ‘no’ to sex, we also learned about many different types of contraception, and the stupidity of the rhythm method…
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Following is a link to a great article on an abstinence club at Harvard. I’m posting this not only because of the subject but because I think it is an example of excellent journalism. Randall, the journalist, makes his own subtle argument throughout the article by the order in which he chooses to relate parts…
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I have always been annoyed at the predominance of the objectification of the female form in art. Even today. Not because it is condescending to women but because it is not socially acceptable for the male form to be treated in the same way. People walk down the street with Kate Moss on their shirt…
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International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialised world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.Annually on 8 March, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. While there are many…
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Dear dedicated and awesome readers of lip; Today I have a topic for you that has been in the media for a long time; the slimline differences that there can be between feminism and crossing the line to the exploitation of women. I realise that there hasn’t been much in the media lately to spark…
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It has taken me a very long time to learn to like Canberra. Being born in Sydney and having spent a fair amount of time there throughout my life, I find it hard to like Canberra’s seemingly lack of pace and quietness. However, it has grown on me and I find that I am increasingly…
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– by Belle Gleeson I am the girl in the bubble. Not literally of course, but I am the type of girl who manages to hurt herself daily from even the most mundane of tasks and is on a first name basis with almost every doctor in Canberra. So last week, I hobbled into my…
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Want an opportunity to get your design work seen by women Victoria-wide and help ensure abortion rights? lip is helping out a coalition of VIC and national reproductive rights organisations to ensure the best outcome for abortion law reform in Victoria. Abortion will be taken out of the Crimes Act and what is lawful and…
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Considering our recent discussions about lad’s mags, I found this article in The Guardian particularly interesting. “…It is no wonder a lot of men now genuinely believe that women want to be treated as sex objects. Who could blame them when so many of us have internalised an exhibitionistic ideal of our own objectification?” –…
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I commented recently about the issue of consent around the submission and publication of photos of women’s cleavage in Zoo’s competition. It appears lad mags like Zoo and FHM have little regard for this concept, but maybe this will change after courts yesterday found FHM guilty of publishing a photo of a topless 14-year-old without…
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