The side-by-side photos featured what Knowlton called a male “subject” surfing waves and a female “object” posed seductively in a bikini on the beach. “Man as subject, shredding waves. Woman as object ...

OPINION: In a recent online advertisement for the surf fashion brand Billabong, a man and a woman enjoy very different days at the beach. In the first image, a man is suspended mid-air, clutching his ...

Blogger Karen Knowlton was shopping online, as you do. Being a keen surfer, she was browsing through Billabong's website when she noticed that clothes for men and women were being marketed very ...