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The End Of Page Three???
The sad demise of a harmless British tradition, brought low by a phalanx of hairy feminists and liberal yoghurt knitters?
Or the welcome eradication of a blatantly sexist anachronism in what purports to be a family newspaper?
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You might assume from my inclusion of the words 'phalanx', 'anachronism' and 'purports' in the above questions, that I am one of the aforementioned liberal yoghurt-knitter, but personally I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the future of Page Three...
...other than it might make room for more stories about Kim Kardashian...which I think we can all agree is a very bad thing indeed.
Your thoughts?
Or the welcome eradication of a blatantly sexist anachronism in what purports to be a family newspaper?
http://
You might assume from my inclusion of the words 'phalanx', 'anachronism' and 'purports' in the above questions, that I am one of the aforementioned liberal yoghurt-knitter, but personally I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the future of Page Three...
...other than it might make room for more stories about Kim Kardashian...which I think we can all agree is a very bad thing indeed.
Your thoughts?
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It's just one more little chip away at our freedom.
You newspaper will only contain things of which I approve.
And we are charmingly, but amusingly naive if we think it will stop at Page 3.
Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip ... it will never ... ever ... stop ...
... until we all think the same, look the same, dress the same, until ...
Oh, what the heck, let's just surrender to the insidious powers who want to crush us all into little models of themselves.
Next thing, they'll be telling us we can't smoke in pubs.
You newspaper will only contain things of which I approve.
And we are charmingly, but amusingly naive if we think it will stop at Page 3.
Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip ... it will never ... ever ... stop ...
... until we all think the same, look the same, dress the same, until ...
Oh, what the heck, let's just surrender to the insidious powers who want to crush us all into little models of themselves.
Next thing, they'll be telling us we can't smoke in pubs.
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Now this is interesting...the most common response hasn't been:
It's sexist
or
It's just a bit of fun
but
It's outdated.
As someone who is pretty ambivalent (the last time I bought The Sun, Michael Jackson was black and Madonna didn't look like a Iggy Pop), this is quite enlightening.
wolf63 - you wrote:
"I can't remember seeing the male models in any of the papers."
Actually, for a brief period, The Sun used to do 'Page Seven Fellas'.
It was (if I remember correctly) every Tuesday.
To this day, I have no idea who the hell that page was supposed to appeal to, because no-one really wants to see Trevor Brooking in a thong.*
(*Yes, that really did happen).
It's sexist
or
It's just a bit of fun
but
It's outdated.
As someone who is pretty ambivalent (the last time I bought The Sun, Michael Jackson was black and Madonna didn't look like a Iggy Pop), this is quite enlightening.
wolf63 - you wrote:
"I can't remember seeing the male models in any of the papers."
Actually, for a brief period, The Sun used to do 'Page Seven Fellas'.
It was (if I remember correctly) every Tuesday.
To this day, I have no idea who the hell that page was supposed to appeal to, because no-one really wants to see Trevor Brooking in a thong.*
(*Yes, that really did happen).
sigh..that old chestnut -any women with a modicum of dignity who objects to nudity in a daily newspaper must look like the back of a bus -what utter rubbish . If men want to go look at boobies go buy a magazine -I find the girls hilarious, stood with their knockers out, giving their opinions on current affairs. I never buy the Sun but get a lot of papers donated to wrap up things to ship from my shop and I have to go through the Sun taking out the page 3 so as not to offend my USA clients.
