Lads' mags have 6 weeks to "cover up": your reaction, please!

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

You may already have seen/heard the news today that the Co-op has given "lads' mags" six weeks to cover up their front page with sealed "modesty bags" or be taken off sale in its stores.

The Co-op says it's responding to concerns by its members, customers and colleagues about images of scantily-clad women on magazine covers.

We're being asked what Mumsnetters think of this move by the Co-op. So we'd love you to let us know: please do post up your views on this thread.

I know why they object!

The cheapskates want to look at tits without paying ! I get it now

Perhaps it is as simple as that. I can understand that one better actually. We all like summat for free .

sgb you don't honestly think that images have that neutral effect on girls burgeoning self image and sexuality do you?

anyfucker - perhaps it's that but given googling 'free porn' will turn up a zillion sites with a zillion images and films surely it can't be that.

AF - yes, its about the only thing that makes sense. There must be plenty of free 'boobies' online - a nice pair for you

SGB - yes... would certainly be better if they'd scrap those horrible headlines. Put them on a contents page inside would possibly be an appropriate solution for those

I am just trying to get myself down to a level that I can identify with these people, saf

Free tits ! And I only need to shuffle to the corner shop in my underpants ! With the added bonus of making that snooty big knockered teenage girl who is no better than she thinks she is feel creeped out ! Marvelous!

I think I am getting there....

i have a drink in a proper spit and sawdust pub in the village now and then and do think there is an element of genuinely enjoying leering at page three loudly in front of the young barmaid or any woman who walks in.

I love those cute boobies, grimma Particularly the discreetly flirtatious toss

so you may be onto something.

i still think it's more the, 'bloody hell, listening to what these moaning fucking bitches want? what next? they'll be having us fucking castrated just cos we want to fuck 12 year old girls before you know it', vein of things.

you know they're even saying it's rape if she's unconscious now? fuck me, you won't even be able to stick it in them when they pass out in your taxi before you know it. who the fuck do they think they are, don't they know they're walking fuck holes and tits placed solely on this earth to entertain our penis'?

I can do you a nice pair of tits too.

(sorry, finding it hard to maintain seriousness after FPHs contribution.)

don't you mean boobies grimma?

We are getting closer to it, sad...

*saf

don't you mean boobies grimma?
no, those are tits. I did the boobies upthread.

Seenenoughtoknow

FPH - I have daughters and step-daughters who hate to see the lads magazines displayed on the shelves in the supermarkets, in the same way that they hate to see people on trains in cafe's reading the sun with the page 3 visible. Why should our daughters's (young teenagers and younger) opinions be pushed aside? The 'evidence' from my family is that it makes my children uncomfortable so I would prefer for the magazines (and page 3 of the sun for that matter) to be out of sight (at least). I'm sure if you have any children who can speak to you in an open manner (without being bullied into agreeing with your opinion) they will give you the same answers to the question of whether or not the magazine covers make them feel uncomfortable.

You - and they - don't have the right not to be offended by something. There seems to be a very distinct trend to assume that people have the right not to be offended by something. It's an intolerance of difference. I see stuff that offends me every day. But that doesn't mean that I demand it should be banned.

Nobody's pushing anyone's opinions aside. Just because someone doesn't accept your opinions it doesn't mean they're being pushed aside.

AnyFucker

One word in reply to you, FPH (it being all your ridiculous reply deserves)..... Context

It's been used a lot on this thread, and you don't wish to consider it, or don't appear to understand it, that much is clear

Your use of pejorative terms for campaigners does your limited view no favours either

These extremists aren't interested in context.

extremists

average mums who don't want demeaning pictures of half naked women shoved in their children's faces when buying a pint of milk. extremists right? virtually nazis really.

men who get downright angry about the idea of kids not being able to see half naked women whilst buying a pint of milk and outraged at the idea of someone putting a discrete cover on a soft porn mag? not extreme at ALL, perfectly normal rational defenders of human rights.

human rights? male rights perhaps.

come on ffs - read the women here - do they sound like extremists to you? does the fact they don't want sexualised images in their children's faces really make them extreme? hardcore? outrageous? the new threat to mankind? grow up and drop the hyperbole.

beware opinionated mothers - the new threat to democracy and human rights. i wonder what level terror alert a group of mum's asking for soft porn rags to be out of sight of children would create? people might be arming missiles right now!

forget al qaeda - they're softcore! it's those bloody extremist mothers you want to watch out for. shoot on sight!

oh dear oh dear i'm going to have humorous images of babywearing terrorist groups dressed in boden popping into my head all night.

Its amazing though, isn't it, to hear some of the crap men come up with when the status quo is threatened.

"swivelled eyed extremists" now, is it ?

have you been at the sherry, FlatPackHamster ?

I think you need a lie down in a darkened room

They are not all out to get you, you know < soothing >

You sound a bit silly, FPH. Did you realise that ?

Really, most (all?) men I know would prefer it if the most prominent role models for their daughters in the supermarket weren't women who were at the mercy of their partners/weight/tits/cellulite.

one of the better lines i heard during this 'debate' here, on tv, online etc (think this one was a tv interview) was a magazine editor saying, "the thing to remember is it is not consumers who want this but feminists".

cos feminists aren't consumers right? they live on a little lentil weaving island making their own stuff out of love and leaves?