Grown up girls take responsibility

No brains, only tits, bums and legs

On Tankard Reist's website there is also a post titled Surrounded by a culture in which girls are all body and only body.

Here MTR sets out her objections to Lea Michele, star of the US hit TV series Glee appearing on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine wearing a dress that reveals cleavage. Because Michele (in her mid twenties) plays a teenager in the show, the argument is that she has a responsibility to appear modestly dressed even when she's not in character, otherwise she's setting a bad example of "sexification" for the teenagers who watch the show.

A hark back to old Hollywood morality, when a racy private life could get a film star fired.

Cleavage shots and the like, the campaigners claim, teach girls that the only thing that matters is their appearance, and that looking sexy should be their primary goal. Who they are and what they do is subjugated to the cultural imperative to cultivate and flaunt their sexual power.

If this is the culture Reist and Funnell want to jam, then they're going to have to close down all media everywhere. Even that ad for shampoo where a young woman lets her dress slip off as she steps into a city fountain to wash her hair – there's a breast outlined and she's taking off her clothes in a very sexy manner – will have to go.

They aren't talking about raunch here, or soft porn, though even that is in the eye of the beholder. The dress is unremarkable for the times, the pose hardly offensive. She shows about as much breast as they did in Georgian times, when nipples were barely covered and swelling, uplifted cleavage was perfectly acceptable.

Just say No to Victoria's Secret

Then there's the campaign to stopUSunderwear manufacturer Victoria's Secret from operating in Australia. The garments they produce are "pornified" according to MTR, and "falsely empower women."

Women who model these garments, and women who buy them, are adult women responsible for the choices they make. But try that argument, and you'll be told that they don't know they're being exploited. In other words, as well as nurturing perverted ambitions to look like porn stars, apparently millions of ordinary women who buy from Victoria's Secret haven't got any brains either.

But don't worry! The covered crusaders are here to protect them from themselves and they will pull out all stops to prevent that naughty porny underwear from being sold in Australia!

The battle for control over the representation of female sexuality