Category Archives: misogyny

Eating disorders

October 12, 2010 – 4:33 pm

This article: ‘Shocking figures reveal one in three hospital admissions for eating disorders are children’ is currently buried at the bottom of the Mail website. To the right of it are the normal too fat / too thin / too old / too ugly stories that form the staple diet of the Mail website. Needless [...]

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The abnormal fatty, not once but twice

August 25, 2010 – 8:17 pm

I had never heard of Nikki Blonsky before her name and picture popped up on the Mail website the other day*: For the Daily Mail wearing a bikini is news, particularly if you are female and have what they consider: A, a great figure; B, are too skinny or C, are too fat. In this [...]

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Juxtaposition

August 24, 2010 – 3:04 pm

The Daily Mail sensitively covers the story that Whitney Thompson ‘wants women to love their bodies’ and ‘beat eating disorders’ by placing the story directly above an article thanking (‘That’s better, Sadie!’) Sadie Frost for being less fat and pale then she was two years ago: As well as concern over Mariah Carey’s ‘ever-fuller figure’. [...]

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Daily Mail readers sexually inadequate

June 24, 2010 – 11:00 pm

It is something that might explain the mixture of partial nudity and anger on the Daily Mail website: ‘Seven minutes ‘is the optimum length for sex”. Currently the worst-rated comment on this article seems to reveal a lot about the sexual expectations of Mail readers: Whilst the best-rated comment says just as much:

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Features and Distortions in the Daily Mail

June 12, 2010 – 9:17 am

In 2007 Susan George was held hostage, violently raped twice and was hours away from what police described as ‘certain death’. However, her determination and mental strength allowed her to beg her attacker for over half an hour to drive her to a 24-hour garage in the early hours of the morning for one last [...]

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