sexualised violence

The @BBC remain incapable of correctly identifying child rape.

October 24, 2016, Admin Media Complaints,

This is the brief complaint we have submitted to the BBC over an article entitled: “Outrage over 60-day jail term for sex with young daughter”. The BBC limits the number of characters that can be used in a complaint. The title of your article is “Outrage over 60-day jail term for sex with young daughter”. […]

BBC, male violence, national union of journalists, rape culture, sexualised violence

How to talk to a woman wearing headphones – on toxic masculinity and rape culture.

August 30, 2016, Admin Media Complaints,

Male entitlement to women’s time and attention is rape cutlture.

harassment, hyper-masculinity, male entitlement, rape culture, sexualised violence, Stalking

Dani Mathers and the reality of intimate images shared without consent

July 20, 2016, Admin EVB Analysis,

By now, everyone will have heard of the incident in which model Dani Mathers took an image of a naked woman in a gym without permission and posted it on her SnapChat with the caption “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either”. The media went with the headline ‘body shaming” when they first started covering the […]

celebrity culture, Revenge Porn, sexual violence, sexualised violence

#PredatoryPeacekeepers – the importance of naming the problem (content note)

May 29, 2016, Admin Media Complaints,

We were very pleased to see Cathy Newman cover the sexual abuse of vulnerable children perpetrated by UN peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic and elsewhere: ….There were no fewer than 99 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by the “blue helmets” – as UN military personnel are nicknamed – last year, and there […]

#predatorypeacekeepers, child sexual abuse, male violence, rape culture, sexualised violence