Dad ogling pg 3 girls in playground

[anotherglass]

Strolled into school this morning with DS1 (6) to find a dad "reading" pg 3 of the Sun ( norks were in full view of the Year 2 line up ).

I thought this a tad inappropriate and asked him to turn the page, but he was really put out and huffed and puffed at me.

Tell me I was not being unreasonable.

Wouldn´t bother me tbh.

Was your son distressed by it?

Love the word "norks".

He was being unreasonable for reading a tabloid.

Peasant.

And exactly how many of the Y2 line-up were taking any notice?

I'm sure I'll be in a minority, but yes, I think you are BU.

This bloke bought a perfectly legal daily newspaper, and was browsing it in a public place.
I assume he wasn't drooling, masturbating or drawing childrens attention to the page? He happened to be turned to that page.

And exactly what harm is it going to do to a child, seeing a picture of norks? They are normal, every woman I know has them. I tend to walk about the house in the morning naked. DS sees mine most days. I don't think it does him any harm.

In your shoes, I would have minded my own business, and given my attention to my own child instead.
Not surprised the bloke was grumpy

If he had been spanking his monkey whilst 'reading' it I would say he was being inappropriate Otherwise I think you were being abit oversensitive I bet none of the kids noticed anyway (or their Dads read the Sun) Sorry but YABU

Wouldn't bother me either if I was in a pub and he was sitting in the corner with his paper but in the school yard? Son wasn't distressed but I was slightly affronted.

precisely what clumsymum said

How many woman walk about with their norks on display?

Your choice to show your norks in your house but I have a choice not to see them in the school yard, hence I asked him to turn the page.

yabu

yabu

It's not just 'norks' though - it's not like a nice breast-feeding woman.

It's an image designed to titillate and sexually excite.

So shouldn't be in a playground as it 'normalises' breasts for titillation rather than lunch in a newspaper

Presumeably at least 50% of the Yr 2s were breast fed and have seen breast before?

Good grief in Europe they have TV adverts on in the day with full frontal norkage - we are such bloody prudes here.

Yabu. Unless, as others have said, he was 'spanking his monkey' Sorry domesticdiva, borrowed your description 'cos I loved it

I was on a coach trip to a safari park with my DD once, and we were looking at magazines, minding our own business, when a woman leaned over and said to me " d'you mind putting that away, my nephew can see it and he's underage"
It was Reveal ffs!
Not a classy mag, true, but?
And 'under age nephew' was about 14 and had been peering round his seat at us the whole time. My eyes and DDs eyes were minding their own business

Life would be much simpler if people just wound their necks in sometimes!

YANBU that would annoy me too! I can't help but wonder why people read that sort of trash!! I hate my kids having to see that kind of thing...am far from a prude but hate the objectifying of women, why do some people (not on here) accept this kind of thing but object to breastfeeding etc, ludicrous!

over use of business minding going on in my post.
Did I happen to mention that we were minding our own business?

The dad must have been receiving some sexual gratification from the picture (albeit low level) otherwise why would he have been staring at it for so long. Of course it made me uncomfortable.
If he was enjoying his paper in an adult venue, ie a pub, no big deal but in a infants school yard I was not wrong to feel uncomfortable.

YABU.

Anyway, how do you know he wasn't reading page 2 and that page 3 just happened to be opposite?

"The dad must have been receiving some sexual gratification from the picture (albeit low level) otherwise why would he have been staring at it for so long."

Erm - hes a man? Thats the way men work - basically.

YABU mind your own business.

or bashing the bishop...

the Sun is a bit gross and all these boobs everywhere all the time are not good for young impressionable girls, surely, as one can't help but make comparisons. Also, I love sexy images, but sexiness is so rare these days cos airbrushed tits are just everywhere so there is NO titilation just blatant over-sexualisation. That said, YABU for minding a poor bloke just having a gander and minding his own beeswax, as I'm sure he wasn't showing his kids the pic...don't get why it's a problem.

dirty bugga

"I can't help but wonder why people read that sort of trash"

Well I don't buy the paper, but it seems that over 3 milloin folk do according to the trade.

They are generally ordinary folk, who read that sort of trash because they want to, apparently they enjoy it.

You may feel it is the objectifying of women, but my guess is that the girls who are pictured in the mainstream british press are doing it of their own free will, because they a) need to make a living in some way, and b) are quite proud of the attributes god - or a plastic surgeon- gave them, and are happy to show them off.

And it only harms children if people go on about it, making it seem like our bodies are dirty things no one should ever look at.

YANBU

shows how many idiots there are in the uk then