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		<title>Killjoys, Wowser and The P-rn Wars</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2012/01/killjoys-wowser-and-the-p-rn-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this piece by Dr Helen Pringle, &#8216;Killjoys, Wowser and The P-rn Wars&#8217; in New Matilda so inspiring. I hope my fellow women&#8217;s activists will draw strength and renew their commitment to our cause, after reading it. &#8220;Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas.&#8221; &#8211; Mary Richardson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klein and Hawthorne on feminism and MTR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Renate Klein and  Susan Hawthorne Since the publication of Rachael Hills&#8217;s article &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Melinda Tankard Reist&#8221; (and see her reflections two weeks later) at least ten on-line and print media articles have joined in a public dissection and commentary along the lines of, &#8220;she&#8217;s a conservative religious fundamentalist&#8221; and &#8220;she&#8217;s pro-life and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media a free-fire zone for cyber hate</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2012/01/social-media-a-free-fire-zone-for-cyber-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com/2012/01/social-media-a-free-fire-zone-for-cyber-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published in the Canberra Times Jan 22, 2012 Most days when I turn on my computer I am offered wisdom on what would make me less angry about the treatment of women and girls, the issue I most care about. This can be summarised as ‘MTR really needs a good f**k’. And that’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s to another year: Thanks for your amazing support</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/here%e2%80%99s-to-another-year-thanks-for-your-amazing-support/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/here%e2%80%99s-to-another-year-thanks-for-your-amazing-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My publishers, Spinifex Press, made this Christmas decoration for their Christmas mailout. I bet you’ve never quite seen one like that before. I confess to some cognitive dissonance when I first saw the image. I don’t really picture Big Porn Inc under the Christmas tree, or as something ones true love would give you on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pussy Energy Drink: Sexism in a can</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/pussy-energy-drink-sexism-in-a-can/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/pussy-energy-drink-sexism-in-a-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Pussy is great by itself, but you know sharing with friends, it’s nice to experiment and I would recommend sharing pussy with friends…” Where did I find these quotes? Comments posted on a porn site? Men discussing their sexual preferences perhaps? No, they’re found in this promotion for an energy drink called Pussy. These words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gail Dines: Exposing the Myth of Free Porn</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/gail-dines-exposing-the-myth-of-free-porn/</link>
		<comments>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/gail-dines-exposing-the-myth-of-free-porn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read Jennifer Wilson&#8217;s article, I couldn&#8217;t help thinking that the pro-porn crowd must be producing a list of talking points that they endlessly circulate among themselves. They trot out the same old arguments without a shred of empirical evidence to back them up, and then they suggest that it is the anti-porn feminists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Puangthong Simaplee: a life prostituted and ended at 27</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/remembering-puangthong-simaplee-a-life-prostituted-and-ended-at-27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What passing bells for those who die as cattle? By Dr Helen Pringle Ten years ago, Puangthong Simaplee died at the age of 27. She had been picked up in a police raid on a Surry Hills brothel on 23 September 2001, and was sent to Villawood Detention Centre. Three days later, she died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I was so ignorant of the epidemic of violence against women until it happened to me: rape survivor tells</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/i-was-so-ignorant-of-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-until-it-happened-to-me-rape-survivor-tells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why I took part in 16 days of activism against gendered violence against women By Kate Ravenscroft “How frequently women are hurt and violated by the people they love. How rarely those criminals are brought to justice. How devastating the consequences of rape and gendered violence are. How effectively and irreparably violence against women destroys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would the world be like if men rejected violence? Male anti-violence worker issues a challenge to men at the end of &#8217;16 days of activism&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/what-would-the-world-be-like-if-men-rejected-violence-male-anti-violence-worker-issues-a-challenge-to-men-at-the-end-of-16-days-of-activism-to-end-gender-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;We have made huge gains in becoming aware of the realities of many women’s and girl’s lives, and have a greater understanding of what can be done to call men to account and invite them to change&#8217; As readers would know, I’m always encouraged when men decide to speak out against the objectification of women, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How City Beach conditions boys to porn: one dad’s plea for something better for our boys</title>
		<link>http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/12/how-city-beach-conditions-boys-to-porn-one-dad%e2%80%99s-plea-for-something-better-for-our-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If sexual images are inappropriate in the workplace, they are inappropriate at school Simon Kennedy I have spent the last two years working at a multi-billion mega-project construction worksite in regional Western Australia. Every day I walk amongst a bunch of men that resemble a merry band of desert vikings who are building prosperity for [...]]]></description>
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