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Clodagh Finn: We need to talk about the male gaze

What’s the point of making strides in the 21st century if new technology is pulling us back into the 1950s?
Clodagh Finn: We need to talk about the male gaze

In what Nine News Melbourne called a ‘graphic error’, Georgie Purcell claimed a picture of her used by the network had been changed to give her 'enlarged boobs' and reveal her midriff.

It is hard to be a woman with a body in this crazy world. The truth of that has been all too evident in this deeply depressing week.

In Australia, the TV show Nine News digitally modified a photo of a female politician to give her bigger breasts and an exposed mid-riff. I can’t even get my head around the ‘why?’ of that, although the MP at the centre of it was the first to call it out.

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