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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/if-you-really-want-to-help-the-sisters-keep-your-gear-on/ Next week New Idea will feature a half-naked George Calombaris on the cover. “I want to be a role model for all the short and stocky men out there,” he says. Meanwhile, Hugh Jackman reveals all on the cover of the Australian Women’s Weekly about how to stay fabulous in your 40s. “I’m doing it for all the insecure men out there,” he grunts between his 112th and 113th rep. “You too can look like this!” Of course, this is all happening in a parallel universe. Generally, men don’t feel the need to take off their clothes for the cover of a magazine. So why do some women? This wasn’t what the suffragettes had in mind when they fought for women’s emancipation all those years ago. Emmeline Pankhurst, speaking at the Women’s Franchise League in 1889 didn’t say: “One day, women will be able to remove their clothes in public and be judged on how hard they work out at the gym. What a glorious day that will be!” Let’s start with Deborah Hutton’s cover shot. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/if-you-really-want-to-help-the-sisters-keep-your-gear-on/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/if-you-really-want-to-help-the-sisters-keep-your-gear-on/#item7505 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/good-body-image-is-a-big-fat-myth-lets-change-it/ Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/good-body-image-is-a-big-fat-myth-lets-change-it/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/good-body-image-is-a-big-fat-myth-lets-change-it/#item7275 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-beautiful-people-should-be-made-to-suffer/ Today’s message to young women is: All girls are beautiful. But some are more beautiful than others. Oh, and frankly – you over there! – you don’t make the grade at all.  What the hell’s going on with those eyebrows? What is this? 2008? In a world awash with far too many beautiful girls (for the purposes of this article for ‘beautiful’ read ‘fully coiffed, immaculately made-up, grain-fed, and catwalk-ready) today we also have the announcement of the 2011 Girlfriend Rimmel Model Search winner.  You can meet the finalists here. UPDATE: The winner was 13-year-old Irish, Croatian and Pacific Islander and Sydneyite Chloe Glassie. And she has braces! feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-beautiful-people-should-be-made-to-suffer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-beautiful-people-should-be-made-to-suffer/#item7155 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bikini-rules-for-any-old-bum/ Wearing a bikini turns me into a woman I don’t want to be: neurotic, angsty and hyper-pervy of every female in sight. I’m a shocker at ‘compare and despair’, so all those holidays when I should be enjoying a good book or contemplating a surf are, instead, spent in a ridiculous silent dialogue with myself: “Are they looking at my thighs? She’s game to go the white; What’s that Miranda Kerr lookalike doing in Bermagui? Sod off back to Mauritius! Who’d have thought four triangles of Lycra could turn me into such a cow?” feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bikini-rules-for-any-old-bum/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Bikini-rules-for-any-old-bum/#item7075 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-youve-copped-a-lot-of-crap-but-please-forgive-me/ Dear body, I’m writing to say sorry. You’ve copped a right hammering over the years. Honestly, you could take yourself off to a home for battered bodies, on account of the physical and emotional abuse you’ve endured. Sure, I’ve never cut you, starved you or shoved heroin into you. But there’s something pretty ugly about constantly comparing you and always finding you wanting. Slimmer, more sculpted, wider-eyed, smaller-nosed, longer-limbed, more honey-toned, less freckly, less spotted, less wrinkled, less… just less, freakin’ less of you. Especially you, thighs – you’ve ruined my life. For a long time, I thought I was the only one haranguing you for your inadequacies. Turns out, we’re all at it. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-youve-copped-a-lot-of-crap-but-please-forgive-me/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/body-youve-copped-a-lot-of-crap-but-please-forgive-me/#item6735 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-PC-species-is-full-of-faeces/ There you have it!  After 40 years of feminists like Germaine Greer and the sisterhood telling men that it’s wrong to objectify womyn and that equality means treating them like blokes, a recent survey of Australian men proves that little, if anything, has changed. A recent survey of men’s attitudes, carried out by Derek Jones from D&M Research, concludes that men, primarily, look for sex appeal in a relationship and that what they most look for in a women are good breasts and a nice backside. According to Derek Jones, while political correctness is forcing men to act like new-age, sensitive guys, look below the surface and most men still prefer Megan Gale and Jennifer Hawkins. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-PC-species-is-full-of-faeces/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/The-PC-species-is-full-of-faeces/#item6683 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-judge-this-book-by-its-cover/ When you’re fourteen years old, chubbier than the rest of your friends and desperately unhappy about it, there’s nothing more precious than good self-esteem. It gives you confidence, improves how you relate to others and boosts your overall sense of happiness. It makes you a better human. Diets do not help build healthy self-esteem. Ergo, books about diets do not help engender healthy self-esteem. That’s probably why American author Paul Kramer has copped so much flak for his new but yet to be published book, Maggie Goes on A Diet. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-judge-this-book-by-its-cover/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-judge-this-book-by-its-cover/#item6592 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/eating-disorders-a-more-weighty-issue-than-you-think/ Repeat after me: Models do not cause eating disorders. Really, they don’t. The news which hit the headlines this week that nearly 100 children between the ages of five and seven had been diagnosed with eating disorders in the UK in recent years immediately prompted some stock-standard finger pointing (“It was the models wot done it!”), but it’s time to dispel a few myths about eating disorders. For years, the scrawny, malnourished-looking girls who haunt the runways of Paris, Milan and New York have been accused of shoving women the world over just that much closer to starving themselves or sticking their fingers down their throats. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/eating-disorders-a-more-weighty-issue-than-you-think/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/eating-disorders-a-more-weighty-issue-than-you-think/#item6422 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-invisible-woman/ Every woman hits a time in her life when she suddenly becomes invisible. I am at that age.  Except yesterday. I was walking down the street, not looking like a mum for a change, and a young guy wearing too much aftershave stopped talking to his mate as he watched me approach and pass him by.  It was sort of flattering: that I can still stop a conversation and even more flattering knowing that they weren’t drunk. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-invisible-woman/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-invisible-woman/#item6175 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-raise-a-defiant-finger-to-fashion/ “No fat chicks” is not just a Homer Simpson-esque T-shirt slogan. It’s also the bottom line of the fashion industry. And when I use the word “bottom” here, I’m not referring to a voluptuously padded Venus of Willendorf derriere but one of those pointy Paris Hilton numbers that look like they could deliver a nasty needle-stick injury. Cast an eye over shots from the big 2011 couture shows and you’ll see scores of emaciated young women limping down the runways with flesh-less knees, stringy necks and rib cages that make ET the extraterrestrial look like a fatty boomsticks. These human coat hangers are held up as exemplars of feminine beauty yet are eerily reminiscent of Sidney Nolan’s infamous photos of dead-but-alive-looking cow and horse carcasses from drought-stricken Queensland during the 1950s. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Antony McMullen) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-raise-a-defiant-finger-to-fashion/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/how-to-raise-a-defiant-finger-to-fashion/#item6140 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:12 +0000 Yesterday, Mission Australia released the results of their 10th National Survey of Young Australians. Among the most reported of their findings was evidence that more young girls than ever before have a problem with body image. “All the well-meaning efforts to combat the problem have failed,” said Mission Australia spokesperson, Eleri Morgan-Thomas. “More work needs to be done.” That should not come as a surprise to anybody. Good body image campaigns have failed because so very few people actually have it. Good body image is a myth.