Comments on: UPDATED: The woman behind the campaign to sack Kyle Sandilands

By: Surprised

Surprised — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:26:19 +0000

There was a petition to get Kyle sandilands off air? I would have signed that if I’d known!

By: Billie-jean

Billie-jean — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:57:12 +0000

I don’t worry too much about what Kyle says. Sure he gets carried away & makes mistakes sometimes but he’s always man enough to admit it & apologise. In fact, he makes me laugh EVERY DAY & if he can do that, in this sad, unsustainable & cruel world, then he gets my vote of confidence. Don’t change, Kyle!

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:51:53 +0000

Is Catherine Deveney not the woman who lost her job for a comment she made about a little girl’s looks?

By: Bel

Bel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:06:48 +0000

Well done Emily. A huge congratulations for putting sponsors of this vile radio show under pressure. Finally Holden have withdrawn their support and even though they reacted slowly the right decision of public ally announcing their future support was a good outcome.. As a mother, woman abd public figure she has a lot to answer for and is just as vile as Mr Sandilands, the radio station who hasn’t fired them both, the companies sponsoring anything to do with either of them and their supporters who have remained loyal to these pathetic people. Well done Holden.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:57:27 +0000

The problem with just “turning off” is that other, violent, people ARE listening. And these people are encouraged in their violence towards women by seeing it displayed so openly and approvingly in public. These violent people see this as permission to harm women. And anyone else seen as a good bully target. So it IS my business what he does on his show.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:52:52 +0000

Although I’m not saying to change it back, philosophically I can actually see a point in “woman behind the campaign to send Kyle Sandilands broke” Because it is pointing to a real and powerful purpose and real world outcome. Maybe nice people, especially women have to get nastier to get anywhere. The alternative headline smacks of simply complaining and has no outcome stated. It’s “nice” Women are always required to be nice as a way of disempowering them. Be nasty sometimes I say. And have a powerful follow through goal beyond just complaining and being dissatisfied. Which is all women mostly ever do.

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:30:56 +0000

What you’re doing is so great! I think a big problem is the total lack of diversity of women depicted in the media. That some are thin and looks obsessed and their whole lives revolve around men in some capacity is not a problem.

That ALL are this way is the problem. One size fits all. And any women who do not fit into this image are usually not seen. But what’s worse is that when they are seen they are often hated, vilified, attacked. They are miserable loses that bad things happen to. Or else criminals of some kind. If they cross gender boundaries and do “male” things then they are scary monsters. And they NEVER have positive female friends that don’t spend their whole lives talking about men. They never really criticize or stand up to men.

The message is clear. Be a good woman as directed or be punished. I think the solution is partly to create awareness among all people of these hateful limitations. But we also must get more women into positions of control in the media. A study in the US found 97% of powerful positions in the media were occupied by men. It’s hard to have better representations when the entire media simply represents some repressed male fantasy of the world.

By: Jodie Hunter

Jodie Hunter — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:08:24 +0000

Why not get someone like http://www.fashionhayley.com to contribute to your website by doing street style photos? That way, you can show a diverse range of stylish women, regardless of age, body shape, race, disability and show that Hollywood/fashion industry are the ones with limitations, not the fabulous women in the real world.

By: Elle O'Connor

Elle O'Connor — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:11:23 +0000

“I think there will always be women who believe they are not influenced by the way the media represents women.”

You phrase it in a way that implies that you think this is a false belief. Do you genuinely think there are no women who genuinely believe they are not influenced by representations of women?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:47:28 +0000

Well done Emily in coordinating the survey and an excellent article.

Vilekyle needs to be off the air permanently.

However MamaMia needs to rephrase its headline and respect the nature of social media.

Emily is not the leader of a campaign, she is one of the conveners, a focal point for a large group of like minded people.

A leader shapes views, gets out in front of the crowd and directs them to specific channels and behaviours to create change.

In this case, as in many other social media initiatives, the behaviour change and channel were already there, Emily’s role was to facilitate the expression through one particular act.

Many others took other acts – not always visible online but equally as important to the overall movement.

Sure it’s easier for the media to focus on a single leader for a single issue, but that’s not always what happens and this case, and that of the Occupy movement, Anonymous, the Arab Spring and other recent campaigns and emergent groups, there is not a single leader or a single act of leadership which causes or ‘leads’ the movement.

So all kudos to Emily for her single act of decency – and to all those others not recognized by MamaMia for their own acts.

Together we have convened and led, changed the nature of the discussion and created a different and better future.