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If you're not with us then you're against us' is a pretty dangerous attitude. A major new campaign calls on the social networking site to put an end to misogyny on its pages – including graphic videos and images that make light of violence against women. Facebook currently allows pages on its site called “Fly Kicking Sluts in the Uterus,” “Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs,” “This is why Indian girls are raped,” and “Punching your girlfriend in the face cuz you’re Chris Brown.” The social media site also permits pictures of battered women who are bleeding, bruised, tied up, or drugged alongside captions like “This bitch didn’t know when to shut up.” Women, Action & the Media has collected several additional graphic examples here (trigger warning).
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Dear Facebook, It's really simple. Either you think verbal, visual, cultural and social violence against women is great, or you think it's bad. Delete the scoop?
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Hundreds of French Facebook users bared all this week in a protest against the social media site’s strict censorship of nude photos. But the “Day of Nude” protest was cut short early when Facebook's photo police took swift action.
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Porn directors are planning to use Google Glass eyewear for X-rated films to explore the 'full potential' of the technology. The adult film industry is said to be interested in using the specs for point-of-view shots in a 'truly hands-free fashion' as opposed to having one hand on the camera.
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Google Glass has caused concern because it has a camera next to the wearer's eye which can take photos or record video without a red light or a shutter sound to tell others that it is working Casinos said they could help cheaters to win unfairly and cinemas said that they could be used to illegally record films and sell pirate copies. Parks departments and banks across America are also waiting to see how the new technology is used before deciding whether or not to ban them. Delete the scoop?
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Save your breath all of you well meaning critics of this Body Disfigurement! Young AND older Women will still want to have a Body that someday will look ridiculous
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Oh Dear! what a mess they have made of their faces! They may have given up on cosmetic surgery, but for every one that stops there will be ten wannabees to take their place under the knife. Delete the scoop?
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A lively internet campaign to get rid of Page 3 has collected more than 100,000 signatures and received the support of the Girl Guides. Another campaign, The Women's Room, is encouraging women to add their names to a database of female experts to counter male bias in the media. And the pioneering feminist magazine Spare Ribis being relaunched in both paper and online editions
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A woman has discovered that her husband is addicted to gay porn and that it has led him to experiment with other men. If he's gay, is there any way forward for their marital relationship?.
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He is sexually attracted to men, he has had sex with men. He is gay or bisexual. It's that simple. People should stop trying to dodge the issue. Delete the scoop?
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Dudley Sharp is a victims' rights activist and a death penalty expert.
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The sex was rated shocking by some, and not all by others. The violence was generally agreed to be disturbing and harder to handle than reading it in a book. Kathy (former writer for GeekDad and GeekMom, btw) wondered what the demographic of readership was. Men to women? Were typical comic book readers, aka geeky white men, fans of Saga? We don’t know.
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Don't you think fat middle aged women with huge feet does not make a good image But since ditching the booze, it seems that Denise Welch has left with a food addiction that is threatening to take over her life. She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. It is indeed a tragedy that anyone would feel compelled to expose themselves to a tabloid in an effort to keep their name in the news. I just hope that she never develops piles....... Delete the scoop?
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Hannah Montana fans are blushing FORMER Disney child star exposes her rear and boobs in raunchy magazine photoshoot The 20-year-old singer poses for a series of racy shots for the May issue of V magazine and opens up about split rumors with fiancé Liam Hemsworth and her struggle to have the the time to balance career and personal life. Delete the scoop?
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Fanatic's ex: He said I was 'pure' and he took my virginity. I loved him but he slapped me and tried to brainwash me to hate US like he did
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Tamerlan, 26, who with 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar killed three people and injured 260 when they exploded two bombs at the Boston marathon, started dating Nadine in 2006 when she was 17. During their three-year relationship she watched him change from a cannabis-smoking, party-loving teenager into a violent extremist. Delete the scoop?
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A WOMAN has told of her torment after a botched boob job left her with lopsided breasts. Debbie, from Los Angeles, had her breasts enlarged 15 years ago when she worked in the adult entertainment industry, increasing her chest size five times to a J cup
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Poor woman- But she has´nt been out for 15 years why is she a nudist? I mean clothing will cover that up -it only looks freaky in the flesh. maybe dye your hair again. Delete the scoop?
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I must admit, in the beginning, I thought I would hate Sexy Feminism. With the subhead “A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style,” the cover words are superimposed over a close-up photo of glossy, sultry, slightly-parted lips.
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It’s true, this book is not for queers. It is not for trans* people, it is not for Women’s Studies majors writing their theses on Simone de Beauvoir and it is not for Pussy Riot, Femen, Amina Tyler or Malala Yousafzai. Delete the scoop?
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Women should forget everything they've been told about bras. According to a new French study, published on Wednesday, wearing a bra does nothing to reduce back
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Still on the fence about whether American Apparel's advertisement is misogynist or not? Maybe this sideshow will convince you. They say a picture is worth a million words. In this case it's worth a million feminist male gaze theory-gasms. After discovering some vast differences between the way the company was advertising its unisex clothing to women and men, a Swedish fashion blogger, Michaela Forni, decided to take matters in her own hands. Via Paula Maria Tinoco Trindade
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Now the annual poll from the American Academy of Facial and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) reports that social media activity may be driving an uptick in plastic surgery requests
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Whoa! That’s especially concerning since the survey also found that while social media is influencing patients’ decisions to get surgery, it’s not serving as a resource for identifying and vetting surgeons or procedures. Comments from previous patients and advice about recovery can be valuable, if supplemented with objective assessments, for patients shopping for a doctor or wanting to learn more about a procedure, but in 2012, only 7% of patients used social media to research doctors and surgical options, a drop from the 35% who did so in 2011. Delete the scoop?
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A run-of-the-mill LinkedIn user agreement update has revealed that the professional networking site has been an unwilling host to the world’s oldest profession. This is news to Dennis Hof, owner of several legal Nevada brothels, including the infamous Moonlite Bunny Ranch, and LinkedIn member since 2012. “What’s the problem? We have a license to do this,” said Hof, whose employees also have LinkedIn accounts. “Our business is as legal as theirs. We’re the good guys. We have no reason to be knocked off.
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Probably not the best business for the site, someone was obviously 'networking' and found this tidbit of information. If you ask me which is immoral: floating people payday loans or credit cards at interest rates people can't pay back OR becoming an escort, I would tell you I have a lot more respect for the escort, period. Yet the CEO of a payday loan company can float a profile on LinkedIn and a legal escort can't. Delete the scoop?
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A lesson on what NOT to do with advertising. Radio Shack butchers the Beats Pill and Boom Movement beats off. Via Paula Maria Tinoco Trindade
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There are 2 familiar sayings in each newrooms acroos the country 1- Sex sells 2- If it bleeds, it leads
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May 13, 1:03 PM
Just shows how they still sell to men - forgetting to market to women. This sort of sex sells ad just turns me off, annoying actually.
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Jodie O'Donohoe is still receiving treatment for burns six years onMother Nichola says lice shampoo Proderm may have contributed to fireShe has set up a Facebook campaign called Justice for Jodie
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The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Via Gracie Passette
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The administrator has spent life dreaming of having children of her ownNow her mother, Linda, has offered to be surrogate mother to her babyLinda's friends think she's mad but she says she didn't have to think twice
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Already in my heart, and yours in my uterus. Controversial, but surrogacy is not all evil Delete the scoop?
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They may be just a few days old, but these babies have already mastered their perfect pose for the camera. The newborns appear to be far from camera-shy as they happily stare into the lens or curl up for a nap just days after being born. And looking snug as they sleep in giant blankets, the stars of these photos are guaranteed to make your heart melt.
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Oh My WORD!!!!!!! How blinking adorable are they???? Makes all thats bad in the world seem ok. Bless their little hearts...World is your oyster little ones, don't throw it away. Delete the scoop?
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A model decided to surprise her fellow commuters by joining their trek to work completely in the nude. The brunette woman only wore her glasses and shoes for the journey, and, in place of her clothes, she decided to brazenly place words describing the pieces of attire that they would expect to see on her skin.
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This entire ordeal is part of a project by Milo Moire, the Swiss artist. It is entitled, The Script System, and has been designed to shake up the “ordinary.” Moire remarked that the models’ walk around the vehicle in the nude was supposed to make people think outside the box on their daily commute to work.
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Talia Joy Castellano, from Orlando, Florida, was first diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma cancer on Valentine's Day in 2007.
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While I can admire this brave young girl's positive attitude and desire to make the best of a terrible situation, she is being used to promote subtle propaganda. The population is being taught to celebrate disease and passively accept--and even glorify death, instead of being encouraged to question WHY are more and more people being afflicted with cancer Delete the scoop?
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A woman got the shock of her life when she saw intimate photos of herself on the internet that had been posted without her permission. She says the timing of when they appeared, right after her breakup with her boyfriend, is no coincidence.
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