Bravo to BBC3 for its documentary, I Never Said Yes, about the rape epidemic in the UK.
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: domestic violence, feminism, gender inequality, healthy relationships, male violence, porn, rape, rape victim support, sexism, sexual harrassment, sexual violence, teen relationship abuse, violence against women
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Sexual bullying in schools is so rife it is hardly noticed. Why, asks Rachel Bell, is it not taken seriously?
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: gender stereotypes, rape, sex education, sexism, sexual bullying, sexual harrassment, sexual violence, teen relationship abuse
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
One man taking violence against women out of the realm of ‘women’s issues’ and giving young boys and men a positive role model is Damian Carnell, from Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum (NDVF). Rachel Bell meets him and gets a male perspective on male violence.
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: domestic violence, gender inequality, healthy relationships, lad mags, Lapdancing, male violence, objectification, porn, rape, sex education, sex industry, sexism, sexual violence, teen relationship abuse, violence against women
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Everywhere you turn these days there are sexualised images of women’s bodies as porn becomes more and more mainstream. Rachel Bell investigates the growing protest movement against the normalisation of porn in everyday life.
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: feminism, gender inequality, gender stereotypes, healthy relationships, lad mags, Lapdancing, male violence, Object, objectification, page 3, pole-dancing, porn, rape, raunch culture, sex industry, sexism, sexual violence, teen relationship abuse, violence against women
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Here’s the right answer if you’re a man faced with the Page 3 debate at a dinner party. Thank you Damian Carnell. Oh and to have a clue about what your girlfriend thinks, read Clare Short’s book, Dear Clare..this is what women feel about Page 3, documenting 1000′s of letters Clare recieved from girls and women.
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: gender inequality, gender stereotypes, glamour models, healthy relationships, lad mags, male violence, objectification, page 3, porn, porn in the workplace, rape, sexism, teen relationship abuse, violence against women
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Some of the many letters, printed in The Guardian, responsding to my article, It’s porn innit?
- Leave your comment • Tagged as: feminism, gender stereotypes, glamour models, lad mags, porn, rape, raunch culture, sex education, sexual violence, students, teen relationship abuse, violence against women
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit