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Page three

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clemetteattlee · 12/10/2012 22:05

So, I have signed the petition to lobby the Sun into finally getting rid of page 3 girls and posted a link to the petition on my Facebook page. Given that I post links to various different political and women's rights sites you'd think they wouldn't be surprised, but I have had someone accuse me of "being like the Taliban!"
For me this is a no-brainer and should be a small and obvious skirmish in the wider campaign for equality and respect yet I am amazed at how many people are keen to defend page three in the name of "freedom of speech."
Does anyone have any thoughts?

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clemetteattlee · 13/10/2012 00:10

Although the heavy object is tempting what I need is a killer, irrefutable argument to be understood by the deliberately obtuse.

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KarlosKKrinkelbeim · 12/10/2012 23:38

I have a thought. Get a large, heavy object. go round to the house of the person who said that wanting to ban page 3 made you like the taliban, and hit them with it really really hard until they stop talking. You'll be doing them a favour, trust me. Being that stupid is no fun at all.
Note to the literal-minded - the above is an attempt at humour, not a serious incitement to physical violence

CelticPromise · 12/10/2012 23:31

It was linked on an FB site for local mums and I was Shock at how many people defended page 3. Clueless.

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clemetteattlee · 12/10/2012 23:29

De-friend a few I think. The response from my female Tory MP when asked she would sign it: "it can do you and your daughter no harm if you don't buy the paper..."

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KRITIQ · 12/10/2012 23:25

Time to de-friend someone, methinks.

The arguments for preserving Page 3 really do demonstrate the ridiculous lengths some people will go to fight even a small challenge to male privilege and the entitlement to objectify women.

But then again, the campaign got alot of signatures and lots of support in a relatively short space of time, so that's good.

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clemetteattlee · 12/10/2012 23:03

I am amazed at the hostility the suggestion that Page 3 might be problematic has caused...

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ecclesvet · 12/10/2012 22:39

Don't you know that if you shut down Page 3, the nation would lose a vital source of opinion and ideas? Why, think of the economic, political, philosophical and religious ideas that have been communicated over the years! Truly, shutting down Page 3 would be the death knell of freedom of speech. Hmm