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martin dufresne
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posted 23 September 2008 07:57 PM

Can you imagine Maclean’s Magazine requesting a meeting with a senior minister of the Harper government and demanding that Status of Women Canada be shut down, then airing this line of argument in two successive hostile editorials and on its editor’s personal blog, all in the name of men’s rights and the notion that sexism is a thing of the past and that « prissy feminists » shouldn’t be criticizing the advertising of media such as Maclean's?
Awesome, no? Yet, this is precisely what Chatelaine Magazine did a few weeks back in Quebec, reviving a long-standing antifeminist strategy of the Angry Men’s movement – bringing down anti-sexism instruments such as the Quebec Status of Women.
Chatelaine Editor Lise Ravary seems to have done this in part to drum up interest in a « new improved » image for Chatelaine, one that pushes female columnists to the back pages but prominently features a Mark Steyn-type shock jock columnist who – coincidentally – is also a long-standing foe of the QSW.
The issue has generated a number of reactions from Quebec’s francophone leading and grassroots feminists, many of which point out that Rogers Communication – Chatelaine’s publisher – had a huge stake in the sexist/hypersexualized advertising conveyed by Chatelaine and other women’s mags.
Indeed, Ravary’s opening salvo against the QSW took issue with one of its Notices entitled «Le sexe dans les médias – obstacle aux rapports égalitaires», a vigorous analysis of the growing sexualization of girls and women in the media. She is being taken to task about that by readers on her blog.

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remind
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posted 23 September 2008 09:40 PM

Body and Soul?

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martin dufresne
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posted 23 September 2008 09:45 PM

I could have posted it under media or feminism or canadian politics, but given that this is mostly about sexualization of women's and youths' bodies and feelings by big business and its attempts to suppress any critique of that, "body and soul" seemed appropriate. I am cool with transfer wherever.

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remind
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posted 23 September 2008 10:10 PM

Well personally, I believe that threatening/asking for, the closure of the PQ Status of Women, should be in feminism, and particularily so when it pertains to the exploitation and sexualize of girls and women, by corporate interests wanting to protect their right to do that.

Not trying to be picky Martin, just we had pretty much decided a year ago now that these types of things need to be discussed in the feminist forum. This was because, it always ended up being discussed, not from a feminist or even a woman's, view and indeed every thread not in the feminist forum, came equiped with males asserting their entrenched notion of their own privilege and belief that they know what is best for women.

So many discussions and actions have ended this way, it becomes difficult to even want to enter into discussions or post thoughts, as it is a wasted effort, in any area outside the feminist forum. Personally, I have just stopped caring, and just try to give at least 1 woman's perspective on some issues we discuss, as if not, then men on the left will just continue to believe all us left women are out there, are bobbing and nodding our heads in silent approval, and agreement, that they do indeed know it all and what's best. Given that, I supposed it matters not.

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RevolutionPlease
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posted 23 September 2008 10:22 PM

You rock remind!

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martin dufresne
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posted 24 September 2008 06:16 AM

quote:
Well personally, I believe that threatening/asking for, the closure of the PQ Status of Women, should be in feminism, and particularily so when it pertains to the exploitation and sexualize of girls and women, by corporate interests wanting to protect their right to do that.
Not trying to be picky Martin, just we had pretty much decided a year ago now that these types of things need to be discussed in the feminist forum. This was because, it always ended up being discussed, not from a feminist or even a woman's, view and indeed every thread not in the feminist forum, came equiped with males asserting their entrenched notion of their own privilege and belief that they know what is best for women.

That is fine with me, remind, and I am taking the post over to feminism. This is definitely a feminist issue, indeed one that deserves attention for MSM if they at all bother. I was under the impression that it was best for me not to open too many posts in the Feminism forum and that posting this in another forum could leave feminist space to women. Thanks for clarifying.

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