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#FlashbackFriday

An interview with Lisa Clarke of the successful @nomorepage3 campaign. Football, feminism, free speech, and more: http://bit.ly/1qp9ml0  (Photo via She’s On the Ball)

No time for modesty

No time for modesty http://wp.me/p1kePY-xW with thanks to @CarolineLucas and her support for @NoMorePage3

Yesterdays stunt by Caroline Lucas in drawing attention to the No More Page 3 campaign, one I am proud to support personally was a clear breach of House of Commons etiquette. The chair of the Westminster debate on sexism in the media, Labour MP for Lanark and Hamilton East, Jimmy Hood was quite right to challenge the MP for Brighton Pavilion and ask her to put her jacket on if she wanted to…

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RT @NoMorePage3: This is well worth a read. A lot of work that is done by politicians is not considered to be juicy clickbait... https://t.co/UFImigU81m

This is well worth a read. A lot of work that is done by politicians is not considered to be juicy clickbait... https://t.co/UFImigU81m

— NoMorePage3 (@NoMorePage3) June 8, 2017

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wasn't before

wasn’t before

I’ve been writing this specific blog in spits and spots for years but I could never quite corral the bits and pieces I’ve written into one stream. The tone had to be quite right for this blog, it seemed. It shouldn’t be ranting, to avoid the hysterical woman feedback. It shouldn’t be unnecessarily aggressive lest I am labelled a ball breaker. And yet as my own opinion, I wonder why I should feel…

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“Public property?” I hear you say. Well yes, actually. Look around you, and you’ll find for something so normal, we have one hell of a warped relationship with what should be one of the most basic features of the female body. Boobs are deemed taboo and almost unmentionable in some cases, yet perfectly acceptable in others. All too often, we act like a bunch of leering schoolboys, shamelessly gawping over a slight glimpse of cleavage rather than perceiving a pair of boobs as something females have had on their chest for well, pretty much all of eternity.

Take breast feeding, for example. Without aiming to stereotype all new mothers in a nice neat category, many women will tell they’re uncomfortable with breastfeeding their child in public. We’ve all heard of the stories where mothers have been asked to politely tuck their breasts away, because y’know, the natural female body is so unsightly it should be hidden away on all accounts. The irony that strikes me, though, is that whilst a woman sitting on a train or bus is prompted to cover her breasts away in their own natural right, in the newspaper sitting right across from her stands a fully topless young woman, openly baring her body but for a very small pair of pants.

- adelecouchman.wordpress.

(Excerpt etc. first posted on feimineach.com. Orig. attribution above.)

New Beginnings

We have something important to say today.

Amazing, extraordinary people, we have been here, many of us for almost two and a half years talking about the need for gender equality in the media and for an end to the sexism of ‘Page 3’!!

Before that, for forty two years, other women were here, some more prominent than others, but all of them important and all of their experiences valid. From Claire Short, to every single one of the women who wrote to her with their feelings and experiences, from Object and Turn your Back on Page 3 to every incidence of harassment shared on page3stories.org. Every voice of every one of over 241,000 individuals who have signed our petition has joined the voices of over sixty five organisations and charities and those of over one hundred and fifty nine MPs. You have been relentless and brave and very, very loud and we thank you all for your incredible commitment to this campaign.

Please take some time to open the blog to read the rest....

http://nomorepage3.org/news/new-beginnings/

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There is a failure to recognise that no key players in this debate are really criticising the models themselves or indeed the men who look at Page 3. This is because their actions are symptoms rather than causes where the issue is concerned. Let's pretend that are dealing with computer generated images of women with their breasts revealed rather than real people - there would still be the issue of the message it sends out to have those images splashed cover to cover in a mainstream family newspaper.

Josephine Tsui on the crux of the #NoMorePage3 campaign: Why should we fight to get rid of page 3? on The F-Word.

A Suggestion for The Sun Newspaper

Page 3, we’re told, is just a bit of fun

and the girls would have no work if it wasn’t for The Sun.

So maybe it would help the economy if The Sun employs

some shiny new glamour boys.

After page 3 we could have page phwoar

featuring a naked oiled up David Dinsmore.

Captioned ‘saucy Dave from Glasgow

gives his opinion on Charlie Hebdo’.

If nudity doesn't diminish the news

it might also be nice to read a naked man’s views!

There should be no censorship that is understood.

But just because you can print something does it mean you should?.

Some and other tits I was twelve On a bus Well brought up Didn’t make a fuss A guy sat next to me Don’t know his name When you’re twelve They all look the same Gave him a glance Like young girls do Did he look harmless Or should I move Seemed ok But all at once His eyes stared, fixed Like in a trance Took a look down What’s he looking at? Hot and blushing Felt a prat He grinned and stared Now at me I’d been looking At his Page 3 Was only a moment A glimpse in time His eyes turned from her breasts And looked at mine Didn’t he know How old I was? Small and scrawny In my school dress Forty minutes Through traffic and noise Another crowd loaded A school of boys Some look over his shoulder To drool Some poke at my chest Playing the fool And there I sat For that and other trips Too scared to move Next to all those tits I was twelve And they fucking leered at me Cos girls are just breasts Just look at Page 3

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