What would you think if MNHQ asked you to strip for a charadee calendar

[Ecclefechan]

Because that's what they're asking Gransnetters to do and I think it's utterly depressing.

Although I'm not a gran even though I'm old enough I like going on the GN site because they have some interesting discussions.

One of the members came up with the idea of posing for a calendar and HQ have taken up the idea and want volunteers to have their photos taken with pieces of technology covering their "bits". This is to dispel the image that older people, ie over 45, don't know how to use technology.

So would you strip for a MN calendar and how would you feel if HQ mooted the idea?

No ageist comments please.

[SteveBrucesNose]

Away from feminist issues etc relating to this...

My mother is 60 and is a gran. She had an iPhone before me, she had a smart tv before me, her and my dad know a lot more about how to use my home technology gadgets than I do (I buy them because I can and feel I should - they buy them and have time to learn them)

However her friends aren't like that at all. 2-3 years back I had to stifle laughter at her friend starting a new Microsoft word document because she'd got to the bottom of a page and need to start a new one.

[OwlCapone]

It will make Granset a laughing stock, much like penis beaker made MN a laughing stock.

Just like it made the original Calendar girls a laughing stock. Oh no, wait a minute...

Penis beaker was just a stupid story. Hardly the same thing.

[Bifauxnen]

Gabcat - well if you can't pose nekkid and pregnant (should you want to) for in the name of mn when can you?

[LoonvanBoon]

Novelty stripping calenders are surely one of the most overdone, mind addlingly boring things known to man.

^^ this! All they need to do now is get the Gransnetters to do their own version of Gangnam style on youtube & they'll have scraped the bottom of the cliche barrel.

[Viviennemary]

It would be better if they could come up with something new and not this tired old stunt.

[K8Middleton]

I am surprised. I can still remember the fuss and climb down when MNHQ suggested MNers might dress up as 50s housewives and pour tea at some shendig in the Houses of Parliament for International Women's Day a few years ago.

They weren't even getting undressed and there were apologies and all sorts.

Personally I cannot abide naked charity calendars. I think they are passé, cliched and a bit nasty.

[TheNewSchmoo]

It's all a bit tired and unoriginal now. I'd decline

[gabcat]

bifauxnen - my body confidence has plummeted since being pregnant :( can't wait to pop the sucker out and be back to the 'old me' !

[fluffyraggies]

Another FFS @ 'over 45 = old'



Jesus wept it's 21 years till i reach even minimum retirement age - i hardly think i fall into the 'struggling with technology' section of society yet ...

and certainly don't need to be photographed gamely getting my tits out behind a circuit board to prove it.

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

I'd think it was a dismal, tawdry idea which was demeaning to women and especially older women. MNHQ would go down rather sharply in my estimation.

If you want to dispel the idea that older people (45??! ) can't use technology, why don't you ask them to submit digital images they've taken, or graphics they've made with technology?

That's what we're doing at the 'charidee' I work for, but then we respect women and older people.

[Goblinchild]

I'm well over 45, they are right.
I should no longer be forced to learn about and use technology, from interactive whiteboards to ICT suites and DigiBlues.
I should be allowed to retire and drift happily in a fug of old books and lavender bags. Please.

[Goblinchild]

Do you think Justine will be stripping off for Ms October?

[SirChenjin]

It makes me wonder how they think we manage to use MN, what with it being on a website 'n all

[Minnieisthedevilmouse]

It's highly passé.

Agree with moomin otherwise. Quite a lot on here is she who shouts loudest is more right ....

[AugustaAdaByron]

What??!! I don't think this fits in at all with MN's support for No More Page 3. And yes I realise that in Gransnet they won't have their boobs on show.

But still is shows a stunning lack of thought about the objectification of women.

Yes I am a feminist. No I am not telling others what to do.

But I really don't think this fits with MN as a brand.

[Caitlin17]

Honestly the first Calendar girl calendar was amusing. And then the joke wore very thin.

[SirChenjin]

The first calendar girl was original and was set against the backdrop of a very poignant human story, which is why it was successful. Now the concept is just dull and uninspiring.

[126sticks]

mumsnet have changed their brand image I would assume.

[Nancy66]

really fucking tedious. naked charity calendars have been done to death. hard to believe nobody could think of anything more original

[tznett]

Overdone. When I hear of yet another calendar of this type I just think "Oh, not another one!"

Not great when the tabloids jump on it either.

[tznett]

As for over 45s not knowing how to use technology, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time!

[K8Middleton]

Has anyone checked this is actually true?

[126sticks]

I looked over at gransnet and it appears to be. It is on their site stuff over there and was started on Wed 2 April.