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thefinerthingsinlife · 11/01/2011 16:46

"Page 3: a daily reminder of our status in society and what women exist for. To be ogled, scrutinised, mocked, put down, humiliated, harassed, beaten and killed. Every day we hear of heinous (sexual) crimes and injustices against women but every day Page 3 remains a celebrated iconic image in our culture. Is this some sort of joke? No, it's just patriarchy"

I've just seen this and thought it summed it up rather well

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sethstarkaddersmum · 11/01/2011 17:02

the trouble with the libertarian argument that page 3 shouldn't be banned is that by exercising their right to look at it in a public place men are undermining our right to have it in our faces.

what came out for me on previous page 3 threads on MN (the one about the man looking at it in the school playground at pick-up time was an eye-opener) was that by having it in a newspaper you are redefining it as acceptable so blokes feel they can openly display it in playgrounds or on buses because it's only a newspaper.

I would not try to stop the Sun from printing page 3 but I would put pressure on newsagents to display it with lads' mags rather than newspapers and while we're at it ban soft porn including the Sun from public transport, until the editors saw sense and dropped it and the Sun could go back to being socially acceptable again.

FlamingoBingo · 11/01/2011 17:00

But is it page 3 you (we) object to? Or the culture that makes it relevant? SHould it be 'turn your back on a culture that thinks that page 3 is appropriate'?

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thefinerthingsinlife · 11/01/2011 16:57

www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Turn-Your-Back-On-Page-3/154011691309895

That's exactly it; if you dislike page 3 it's because you're jealous, and like you said it is everywhere

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FlamingoBingo · 11/01/2011 16:54

I hate that 'page 3' exists, but as a libertarian-leaning feminist, I would hate to see it banned...waht is the answer?

Keep plugging away at destorying hte patriarchy so men no longer have any interest in something like 'page 3'?

TheButterflyEffect · 11/01/2011 16:50

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