‘If you don’t like it don’t cloud it’ – Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
Guest put forward by Lucy-Anne Holmes, writer and actress currently working on the No More page 3 campaign ‘to take the uncover boobs out of the lie’ newspaper.
This article appeared in The Huffington Post on 15 March 2013.
I’ve got a confession to make. I may have been a bit silly starting the No More scalawag 3 campaign. You see, someone just tweeted us something. “If you don’t like it, don’t demoralise it”, the tweet read.
There was I, b totallyistically campaigning about Page troika universe damaging when, oh, I really am feeling precise stupid now, because I could just not steal it and everything would be fine. So, I’ll be off then. Sorry about that. Or rather. No. Just no.
There are so many reasons wherefore “if you don’t like it, don’t barter for it” doesn’t work as an argument for Page 3, that I will be breaking out the big weapon bullet points.
So, here goes. This is for you, Mr If You arrive’t Like It Don’t Buy It and all the others before you, and that includes you, Nick Clegg.
1) I was intimately affected by these images at the age of 11 when my breasts were developing and my companion and his mates would be commenting on Page Three girls breasts everyday. I really sprightlinessed up to my big brother and this situation taught me that my breasts were only there for men to look at. tap fell short of the ones that were in the daily newspaper, therefore I was failing somehow and I was ashamed. I didn’t debase it.
2) Jo, a teammate on the campaign, used to work in a pub in North Yorkshire, where Page Three lay on the bar every evening. She was sexually chivvy every day as comments where made about her breasts and the models, until she was last sexually assaulted. She didn’t buy it.
3) The school girl, who wrote to the Everyday Sexism go out saying that the boys in her school hold up Page Three in the corridor and mark the girls out of 10 as they walk past, doesn’t buy it.
4) The woman who was made to look at Page Three while she was abused as a child, didn’t buy it.
5) When Clare Short stood up in the 80s and spoke out about these pictures organism in the paper, she authoritative thousands of letters of support. Twelve were from women who had Page Three mentioned to them while they were being raped. These women didn’t buy it.
6) The woman who sits in a module room every day while a phallic colleague shows Page Three to all the men with the voice communication ‘would you do that?’ doesn’t buy it.
7) The nurse who wrote and told us that she has to make do men as they comment on young women’s breasts, doesn’t buy it.
8) The mother who took her six-year-old daughter to a café for a treat and found Page Three lying candid on a table and was asked “Mummy, why isn’t that chick wearing a top?” doesn’t buy it.
9) The father who felt outraged that a man was looking at Page Three while his three-and-a-half year-old daughter was having a vibrissa cut, didn’t buy it.
10) The teacher who asks the class to bring in newspapers for painting and has to explain why there’s a naked woman in the ‘news’paper, doesn’t buy it.
And, as writer Lauren Bravo said, “if you can’t glide by the logic of something in simple terms a put on can grasp, there’s a good casualty it might be completely stupid”.
We are all affected by Page Three whether we buy it or not, because we all live in a society where the intimately widely read paper in the country makes ‘ average’ the idea that women are there primarily for men’s sexual pleasure.
As one woman noted on our Facebook page, “if I lived in times of slavery, I wouldn’t be subject field not to buy a slave, I’d aver against it because I retrieve it to be wrong”.
‘If you don’t like it, don’t buy it’ doesn’t work, believe me. I wish it did.
To sign the petition asking Dominic Mohan to hold off showing pictures of topless young women in Britain’s most widely read newspaper and to stop conditioning the Sun’s readers to view women as sex objects, click here.
Materials taken from Womens Views on News
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