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Melinda TankardReist

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Melinda TankardReist

@MelTankardReist

Author/ed of 7 books, (no 8 on its way), speaker, media commentator, Collective Shout co-founder + Movement Director. Tweets my own.

Canberra

melindatankardreist.com

Joined August 2009

Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
‘Please ask the boys to stop making sexual moaning noises in class' 'Please ask the boys to stop telling us about the porn they watched last night' 'Please ask the boys to stop ranking us according to the bodies of porn stars' 1/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jul 21, 2023
Alison Pearson relays a conversation with a GP who described anal tearing from porn-inspired anal sex, increasingly happening to adolescent girls: "A GP, let's call her Sue, said: 'I'm afraid things are much worse than people suspect'...1/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
These are some of the messages girls I've met the last couple of months wanted conveyed to boys at their schools. The porn industry is grooming boys to behave in sexist, predatory ways. But the Federal Government is taking a hands-off approach, allowing the industry to
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jul 19, 2025
‘Hundreds of sexually violent online games that let players role-play rape, incest and the torture of women and children have been suddenly removed from the global gaming platform Steam 1/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
'Please ask the boys to stop making jokes about our bodies' 'Please ask the boys to stop rubbing up against us in the corridors' 'Please ask the boys to stop sending us dick pics' 2/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
'Please ask the boys to stop calling our mothers MILFS' 'Please ask the boys to stop threatening to rape us if we don't send nudes' (young women of colour, Yrs 7-8) 'Please ask the boys to stop calling us their dirty little sex slaves' 3/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
'Please ask the boys to stop telling us they are going to take us to their sex dungeon' 'Please ask the boys to stop airdropping porn on the school bus' (Lesbian girls) 'Please ask the boys to stop telling us they're going to rape us straight' 4/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jul 21, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
...not being coerced into violent sex by some kid who picked up his ideas about physical intimacy from porn." MTR 'Never Again: Addresing sexual violence must include pornography' @ABCreligion abc.net.au/religion/never… #welcometosex #VAW 7/7
Never Again? Addressing Sexual Violence Must Include Pornography - ABC Religion & Ethics
From abc.net.au
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Nov 29, 2019
Murdered woman found stuffed in freezer, 2 little boys without a mother, husband on run and @australian p 3 story today leads with neighbors saying she was a nagger. Really? That had to be your opener?
Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jan 18, 2024
@hm @hmaustralia what is your intention with this sponsored Facebook ad? Little schoolgirls generally don’t want to “turn heads”. The large numbers I engage with in schools want to be left alone to learn and have fun and not draw unwanted attention to their appearance 1/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Oct 2, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
@AlboMP @MRowland given the weight of evidence of the de-forming impact of porn on the developing sexual templates of our young people and the call from frontline women's safety + child protections orgs for urgent action, when will you respond? #pornharms #ageverification #VAW
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jul 21, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
"The girls presenting with incontinence were often under the age of consent and from loving, stable homes. Just the sort of kids who, two generations ago, would have been enjoying riding and ballet lessons, and still looking forward to their first kiss, 6/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jul 21, 2023
Replying to @MelTankardReist
In recent years, Sue had treated growing numbers of teenage girls with internal injuries caused by frequent anal sex; not, as Sue found out, because they wanted to, or because they enjoyed it, but because a boy expected them to. 2/
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Melinda TankardReist
@MelTankardReist
Jan 16, 2023
'Her male partner’s porn use hurts her like a betrayal. She feels sexually inadequate and unattractive. If she voices her distress about the man’s porn use to friends/family/therapists, she is told that “all men use porn,” it’s a normal thing, not a big deal, she’s overreacting1/
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