Great article. The good news for Australian women is that Blokesworld was cancelled (although still may be put on elsewhere).

It was strange that media coverage of the event almost completely failed to challenge the men and the philosophies behind it, and instead took the opportunity to have a few heavily made-up "flirt models" on their shows.

Melinda Tankard and her sanctimonious narrow-minded fellow travellers miss the point. Blokesworld is harmless fun, and reflects the realities of (heterosexual) life. If you don't like it, dont watch it. Don't waste your time getting your knickers in a knot as there are more important issues to be concerned about.
For goodness sake Melinda, get a grip and get a life. I hope all people like Melinda who dislike Blokesworld, also equally oppose the same sort of material printed in Cleo, Comso and other women's magazines.

Blokesworld isn't nearly as insulting or dangerous to women as it is to men.

It stereotypes them in the worst possible way, as a bunch of neanderthal orcs who can only think with their genitals and their stomach.

I have long observed this about men's media, that it offers the men who read it an even more narrow and sterotypical range of behaviours and interests than traditional women's media.

I started to feel a bit sorry for boys when I first had my daughters, and noticed that while they could wear any colour and play with any toy, my friends who had sons couldn't possibly put them in pink or give them a doll. We restrict men's choices about who they are allowed to be right from the start.

Men should be up in arms about Blokesworld, women would be better served by ignoring it.

Having read the "viewers' letters" on the blokesworld site, I can only come to the conclusion that it was created by MORONS for MORONS. It certainly exploits women, and the brainless females featured seem happy to be exploited in the pursuit of "fame".

Some women who make fools of themselves at hens' nights only serve to reinforce the view of the blokesworld morons that women "ask for it". Whether they do or not, there is no excuse for rape, and it should be severely dealt with, not fobbed off with a feather some stupid Judges and Magistrates do.

Men who bash and terrorise women [and children] because they have no respect for them are NOT MEN AT ALL. They may be male, but they are not worthy to be called "men". It is largely a matter of having RESPECT, and sleazy shows like "blokesworld" undermine respect for women, and the tacky type of "hens' night" plays right into their hands.

enaj: Very well said (you too, big al). I’m offended by ‘Blokesworld’ not by the sexual content or misogynistic attitude, but because it’s so STUPID. I’m embarrassed on behalf of men by this sort of thing, because I look at these morons and think: damn, is this really how you identify yourself? The ‘a bit of fun’ defence is the same line used by those who justify watching dumbass sitcoms or reality shows, I don’t buy it. It’s entertainment for the uncreative, the unintelligent, and the very, very dull.

Scrabble is a bit of fun. A concert is a bit of fun. Real, decent porn is a bit of fun. A wet t-shirt contest isn’t fun, it’s pointless and lame. You could put it down to taste, but I think these guys really just don’t have the perspective or insight to realise how rewarding actual entertainment can be.

lisamaree: as a male I’m not ashamed to say I get a kick out of…shall we say, certain voyeuristic indulgencies. But perving isn’t the issue here. People who think that perving and beer defines manhood, that’s what the issue is.

So many of these desires are learned, not genetic. I feel for the closet homosexuals raised in conservative households, never able to come to terms with their own identity. I feel for the unfulfilled mothers who thought marriage and children would bring them happiness.

‘Blokesworld’ is just another in a long, long list of the celebration of mediocrity we call culture. It takes pride in repressing emotion and sexuality. It glorifies sexism. We are automatically handicapped by being born into a world that shuns creativity, expression, even intellectual pursuit.

“Awww moite, what arrya, a bloody smartass?”

Evidently.

I'm with Melinda Tanktop on this one Blokes world is both dangerous and dumb.

And I am concerned about Boaz D and his intimate knowledge of the going on at hens nights with what seems to be burnt in the brain pan images of pelvic thrusting, penis squeezing, ejaculate giving orgasms - I 've got to get out more - old BD mixes in some pretty wild circles. And did I read him wishing the worlds biggest blow job to beset Sydney by way of a hurricane?

The claim counter claim stuff saying the girls do it in Cleo, or Marie Claire is simply stupid; as does the nonsense about women walking around "stimulating" men while all the poor bloke is tryringto do is buy a sandwich - how helpless is that duffer.

The social context of the crap served up in womens magazines is that of a still patriarchial society - its what the blokes want - its what the chicks who want to get ahead (or some of them )think the blokes want.

You wonder why the muslims think we're a bit stupid - go to blokes world or one of manifestations; read the crap in womens magazines;

If there is a right way for the sexes to treat each other we have not found it yet. Blokesworld or for that matter Shielas World is a an example of really how dumb we are.