Despite the lazy characterisations of much mainstream media, misogyny is not created by new technologies and it will take much more than an “abuse button” to resolve.
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned the “Va Va Voom” advert for the Renault Clio, ruling that it “objectifies women”, but with men similarly scantily clad in the advert what’s the difference?
The television advert for Scotland’s favourite soft drink Irn Bru with a mother in a push-up bra caused 176 people to complain to the Advertising Standard Agency (ASA).
After years of negotiations, the general tide of public conscience being progressive and pro-equality, and the support from Rowan Williams,…