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Last week, Melinda Tankard Reist argued right here on The Punch that the “Pippa Middleton Arse Appreciation Society” set up on Facebook constitutes “virtual sexual harassment”.
She re-published some of the more hideous comments people had placed on the fan page, and claimed this is part of a trend that stems from our increasingly “pornified” culture:
When Karl Stefanovic let all the men present know in his Logie acceptance speech that his wife had “the best arse”, frequent comments were made that if a woman had made the same comments about a man, no one would mind. But a woman making a comment about a man’s backside does not carry the same weight or intent as the reverse. We don’t hear men being told to “shake that arse”. We do not hear of a man’s backside referred to as “booty”.
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If India was hoping to strike gold by hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games, it now looks more like it landed a lead balloon.
A week before the opening ceremony and there has been more controversy off the field than in any of the scheduled competition events at the Games.
As athletes start to arrive in Delhi this week, the loudest chatter on online news sites in recent days has been not on our gold medal hopes, but on the poor standard of accommodation, health risks and terrorism fears.
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marley says:
Oh for heavens’ sakes. I lived in Delhi for a couple of years, back in the 90s. Sure there were problems - don’t drink the water, be careful with the food, be prepared to deal with insanitary conditions and infrastructure that isn’t all that it should be. And there were… Read more »
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Jugger says:
There’s a name for all this hype, and its called a moral panic. Delhi will be the safest city in the Commonwealth for the period of The Games, because the Indian Government will want to show the world that India is a safe place to visit, therefore security will be… Read more »
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