So there are to be no more tits on page three.
Shame about the rest of the paper though, it is full of them.
Don't get me wrong, I see this as a victory for women despite the likes of Jodie Marsh not getting it.
She has been tweeting that she was paid well, felt in control and was mainly dealing with women so it is ok.
No. No it isn't.
What she couldn't control is how the men viewing the images on page 3 saw women. What she couldn't control is how that contributes to how men treat women. What she couldn't control was the objectification of women. In fact she contributed to it. She contributed to the attitudes of men who tell us to smile in the street then call us bitches when we don't. She contributed to lad culture and women thinking they are no more than their bodies.
Do I blame her? Not in the slightest. Am I about to send her a load of angry tweets about it? No. Life is too short and I don't have time to be dealing with trolls and idiots today.
So back to the main point.
It IS a victory for campaigning and for women that Page 3 is to be no more but this is no time to rest on our laurels. It is one battle. We haven't won the war yet.
There is still much to do and none of that includes forgiving the sun for the lies it told about Liverpool fans. None of it includes excusing it for the lies it tells, the hatred it stirs up and it's continued objectification of women.
None of it includes buying the Sun.
Not now. Not ever.
The tits.
are you suggesting that jodie marsh (and her fellow glamour models) should alter her chosen behaviour because of how others perceive her as a result?
ReplyDeletesorry, but that smacks of 'she shouldn't have gone out wearing that' or 'it's her own fault for being drunk.' it's saying 'women can do what they like, but only if other women agree with them.' i believe that this entire campaign missed the point entirely. where does it go next - ban nude art? ban health and fitness magazines? ban lingerie catalogues? i personally take more issue with the daily mail's gossip body-shaming column approach to women than with something that at least celebrates women's appearance.
fact is, pictures of topless men and women are popular - hence why they're on the covers of magazines, in music videos, and so on. sex sells, as the saying goes.
don't like page 3? don't buy the paper. personally, i think there are many, many more important reasons not to buy that particular paper (especially speaking as an everton supporter born in liverpool and directly affected by the lies printed by that paper). but page 3 was never one of them.
Nope, not in the slightest. I did specifically say that I didn't blame her in the slightest. In fact if she was making money exploiting the sad sacks that buy the Sun then good on her! My point is that art actually celebrates the female form while The Sun puts images in that conform to standard beauty ideals to sell papers and that contributes to the very blame culture that you outlined above. Topless pictures are popular but they are not news. I am suggesting that Jodie Marsh and her fellow glamour models get work that is outside of a 'family newspaper' and is in a magazine and such.
ReplyDeleteSorry, this isn't the full answer I wanted to give as I am still in the office.