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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)

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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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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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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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Still here...

As most of you probably already know, the fight is back on. It turned out that The Sun only removed the bare boobs from Page 3 for a single day - and then reinstated it the next. A number of supporters met outside Sun HQ for the Never Gonna Keep Us Down protest a few days later, but unfortunately Page 3 is still here.

Let's still hope that 2015 will be the year things change!

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And that's the point. It's one thing for us to knowingly consent to be objectified in a transient way but quite another to have the nuances of our arguments stripped away so that we can fit more easily into rigidly pre-defined boxes.

Holly Combe: The F-Word.

Plenty of other feminists have expressed opposition to or at least ambivalence towards campaigns against Page 3. It is also hardly ludicrous to point out that candid shots (celebrities being photographed on the beach etc without clear consent) and patronising blurb along the lines of News in Briefs (which thankfully ended in 2013) are far more problematic than including a topless picture that a model openly posed for.

The bemusement I observed seems to sit alongside the dismissive reaction that former Playboy bunny Samantha Rea got from her boss when it became apparent she was against Page 3. (I'm not really down with the quickfire 'family newspaper' angle per se, as I personally think it tends to lead to a blurring of the distinction between suggesting children should not be repeatedly exposed to limiting gender stereotypes and implying they are actually harmed if they happen to see partially nude images designed to mildly titillate adults.) I firmly believe there is nothing incongruous about a woman who has worked as a Playboy Bunny suggesting that pictures of topless models are out of context in a newspaper. And, regardless of whether I entirely support Samantha's arguments, I'd say it's pretty outrageous for her boss to be telling her what she should think.

Full piece: The F-Word.

(Orig. posted on feimineach.com)

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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?.