To ask you all to sign the "No More Page 3" petition?

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It's a bit of a no-brainer really. How are we ever supposed to show our kids that women are more than just sex objects when Page 3 exists? It's archaic and totally unnecessary. It's also an anachronism and offensive. Please sign if you believe that pictures of topless girls don't belong in a so-called family newspaper.

More info here and a facebook page here

Fantastically, the petition has gone from 2,000 signatures yesterday morning to over 16,000 today!

Feminism gone mad!

The only reason you feel like this is because you look for it!

Jesus not sure weather you are a feminist or just a sexist to men!

I honestly perve over men a lot and I will be perving soon when I see the gorgeous man in phones 4 u in his tight suit trousers

OP - a great big thank you, and the others, for making me realise I am not mad. YADNBU

I once watched Kat Slaters sister being interviewed by someone as she had been on page 3. She had also slept with some Japanese tourist for money. When the interviewer asked her why she had ended up sleeping with someone for money after being on page 3 she said that women dont earn enough regular money doing topless modelling on page 3 so had to supplement their earnings. She said it is the best kept secret in the business. Before anyone flames me she said that, not me.

I have no problem with nudity at all. My problem is the sexualised image of women is available to all ages. I must admit if I go on public transport and someone is reading it next to me and opens it on page 3 I politely ask them to put their soft porn away until they get home. I also have some cards that say 'You have just offended a woman, your prick will fall off in 1 minute!' It usually does the job. I have also asked many young men if they would put up with having half naked fit young blokes in their faces every time they go into a shop and all of them have said 'Yes I would object' They are lucky, they dont have to put up with it.

I really really hope that before I drop off the mortal coil, a large percentage of women will stop thinking that they have been put on this earth just to look nice and please men! I dont hold out much hope though.

OP - keep at it - dont be stopped by the loud mouthed minority. Women have put up with this for too long.

Sorry to go on.

Oh jolly good!

Also don't page 3 only use naturally-gifted ladies?

There! Striking a blow for the female form as nature intended. Hurrah!

"I also have some cards that say 'You have just offended a woman, your prick will fall off in 1 minute!' It usually does the job."

Well, as goldship said, this was all done on t'other thread so not sure why you started another one.
I did read the Oscar thread, there were rather a lot of women wanting to lick him all over and other vulgar remarks, which were totally objectifying that fine young man, and not mentioning his athletic performances at all
Disgusting..
There's also that pic of Terry Wogan that get's linked to sometimes, where everybody has a laugh. Maybe that should be banned too.

SPs - I really have to go do some work, much as I could 'bang on' about this all day. It's ridiculous for you to tell me I'm being 'sexist to men'. I'm happy to debate this endlessly when I have more time but if you can't be arsed to read this slaveofthepassions.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/no-more-page-3/ then there's not much point because you are clearly not remotely interested in understanding why so many of us feel so strongly. That's up to you but I have better things to do than continue to argue with someone who can't be bothered to engage.

When the interviewer asked her why she had ended up sleeping with someone for money after being on page 3 she said that women dont earn enough regular money doing topless modelling on page 3 so had to supplement their earnings. She said it is the best kept secret in the business.

She obviously spends beyond her means............i dont think her being a page 3 girl had anything to do the road she took, really dont think you can blame the sun newspaper for that. I mean, god forbid, if she had been say working in a shop on minimum wage how on earth do you think she would have supplemented her income then?? The mind boggles!

I know I wasnt put on this earth to look nice and please men and I personally dont know any women who think that at all. I like to look nice for me....I like to please me........I just dont sweat the little things.

-" dont be stopped by the loud mouthed minority."
ok so someone disagrees with you, insult them !!

surely the whole point of AIBU is that some people will say you are.

Caitlin Moran wrote on Twitter 'I would urge any strident feminists out there to follow the campaign @nomorepage3. Teenage tits aren't news OR a feature'

It's over 19000 signatures by now, btw :-)

Because in a world full of murder, war, torture, and ignominy, the sight of a pretty girl beaming at you with her knockers out and a mildly amusing caption quoting Aristotle raises a smile?

I'm not saying that's a justification. but it's possibly a reason.

When I read my partners heat magazine it is full of nearly naked men being listed over so if we ban page 3 we may aswell ban that too

Jodie, but why do we need to raise a smile in a newspaper?
Are the readers so dim, they cant take serious news for long, so need to oggle some boobs to make it all better for them?

JodieHarsh - doesn't make me smile. Makes me livid that they dare objectify women like this to sell their shitty rag, and then takes the piss out of the models for doing it. So the thought of a woman with her tits out actually having a brain cell - owwwww my aching sides!

markjohnson - seriously, at least read the page we're on first before posting. You'll find this has been addressed... People: IT'S. NOT. A. BAN.

Why not? There are loads of light-hearted and amusing bits and bobs in newspapers.

I just think the whole 'it's not news' thing is a bit of a red herring, that's all.

If you think naked breasts should not be on display, that should be argument alone. the fact that it's not news is neither here nor there.

(As it happens I think there is nothing wrong with naked breasts on display, and that this is far from new - see everything from unearthed fertility statuettes dating back to 3000 BC right up to the Pre-Raphaelite prints I used to have on my bedroom wall).

em well yes, and I see your point entirely, though I don't agree. If you don't want women to take their clothes off to be looked at, that is entirely up to you.

I'm just saying (see comment above) the fact that it's in a newspaper isn't really the point. Presumably you also disapprove of them diong it in FHM etc..

I was only about 14. My granny once slept in my room and requested they all be taken down!!

I think the fact it is a newspaper is entirely the point! I can't say I think it's great in FHM etc no, but at least they are on a separate shelf to the main news stands, and, as I have said, not read in the same way on a daily basis, not read in a family enviornment. It's not about not liking boobs, it's not about being ashamed of nudity/sexuality, it's about perpetuating the idea via the biggest-selling newspaper that this is what women are for - cheering up the lads. Never mind if one gets a gold medal at the Olympics - let's turn the page quick and look at the big pic of the random woman with her tits out. It just trivialises women's entire existence and says we can never achieve equality with men because they're too busy staring at our boobs and having a laugh about them with their mates.

I sort of wish I wholeheartedly agreed, because it'd be simpler, and would fit in with who I think I am, IYSWIM

I guess I don't see the two things (fancying women like mad and looking at their tits/thinking they're your equal etc. etc.) as being necessarily mutually exclusive.

Those women on MN who were frothing at the gusset over Tom Daly in his little knickers presumably respect the men they work with - even if they are young and handsome? One would hope so!

Anyway. Good luck with the campaign. I'm a fickle cow and will probably wake up tomorrow morning convinced I should sign - but not at the moment. Er, not that my support makes one jot of difference, but you know what I mean.

great idea, you start the campaign Mark, and i will sign it.

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Jodie - I wish I could persuade you but in the mean time I accept you have a right to your opinion and really appreciate you being nice about it rather than trying to belittle us as prudes etc.

whoops - was that a bit not-very-MN?