Lads Mags

[Boto]

Have just heard on the news there is a campaign to get rid of lads' mags. There is a call for retailers to remove them or risk being open to legal action. What do you think - are they sexist, pornographic, do they offend you?

[ummmm]

No, I don't think they are sexist. Everyone has a choice.

No, I don't think they are pornographic. Real pornmags are pornographic.

No, they don't offend me. I don't even notice them.

[emmie]

more porn on the internet that can be accessed by children, i am not offended if blokes want to ogle women in these mags, but i am offended by web sites that young children can look at hard core porn.

[ummmm]

Surely that is down to the parents to block over 18 sites on computers their young children use.

[emmie]

how do you stop them if they use a computer out of the house, any type of tablet, mobile phone that can access the internet. I mentioned this before, i came across a porn site just by accident, sounds funny, it wasn't, i typed in something i was looking up and there were these vile pictures of a girl, i wouldn't have put her age more than twelve, she could have been older, but if i can do this by accident, so could a child or if a bit older by design, they are far more proficient and know what to look for.

[Boto]

Ummmm, I agree with you. I don't even notice them either. There are far more important problems in this country than this.

[hammerman]

Absolutely pathetic. Who is actually calling for them to be banned ? probably some tiny group who have nothing better to do.

this kid of thing really gets my goat up....if you don't like them, don't buy them. They don't bother or offend me and ive never bought one !!!

[albaqwerty]

There's more important things for the law-makers to attend to than this.

No, not sexist, pornographic and don't offend me either.

[ummmm]

Em, what do you mean by 'young' children then?

I don't know any 'young' children that has tablets and fancy mobile phones, or spends too much time staying at other peoples houses.

[vodkancoke]

They are not sexist in my opinion. These girls have a choice to be photographed the way they are. I don't think they can be classed as pornographic either. They don't offend me and I don't notice them really. I'm too busy looking for my trashy 'sleb mags with Peter Andre on the front of them!

[emmie]

i consider a ten year old a child, and they do stop overs at friends, and have more access to information from the internet than anything, they are far more savvy than their parents, it is after all the age of the internet, cyberspace. I don't care for any mags, newspapers or internet that shows women as sluts, and looking like prostitutes, if the women choose to do it it's up to them, i don't have to like it. I always wondered why they had page 3 in the Sun, what other newspaper would do this.

[albaqwerty]

The Daily Record stopped their page 3 some years ago.

[emmie]

don't read lads mags, or the sun, not sure whether they still do page 3, but i don't care to see women portrayed in demeaning ways, as i said if they want to do it, get paid, it's up to them. Banning it will be pointless, they do have more access to the internet,

[ummmm]

Do you think a woman demeans herself if she goes topless on a beach?

[naomi24]

I can think of things that offend me more.

[LochNessMonster]

I think there will be stiff opposition to this campaign ?

[daffy654]

I find most lads mags laughable, I am not offended by them at all. I am more offended by the women's and girl's mags that tell us how society expects us to look, what our body shape should be like and all that stuff.

[Kromovaracun]

I think they are distasteful, yes. But that's really not a reason to have them banned.

Something I really do detest about British politics is the feeling I get sometimes that people believe the government is the solution to every problem. Every disagreement, every issue - let's pass a law, let's ban something. There always seems to be someone proposing some regulation or another on our behaviour - and in this case out of their own sense of moral superiority.

Personally, I do dislike the kind of culture that "lads mags" stem from. But I don't think it's the govt's problem.

[jomifl]

I think the Daily Mail is more offensive in the long term.

[bibblebub]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/27/supermarkets-harassment-lads-mags-lawyers?CMP=twt_fd

This story is about a group of equality lawyers who are saying that retailers are vulnerable to legal challenges under sexual discrimination law. So why don't they go ahead and sue a retailer to prove this? Or do they realise that they don't have a chance if it went to court?

Personally, I'm not bothered one way or the other.

[daisya]

Not bothered. Far worse things on the Internet available to all incl children IMO.