This is why the demise of Page 3 Girls is so important“None of us live in a vacuum, and ou

This is why the demise of Page 3 Girls is so important“None of us live in a vacuum, and our individual choices - although deserving of respect provided they cause no harm to others - are necessarily informed by the world we live in. If society didn’t tell us that body hair was unnatural and disgusting, would women be compelled to shave our legs? If women weren’t instructed to measure our most important contribution to the world in consort with the degree of pleasure men take in looking at us, would we waste so much time worrying about what they thought of our tits, our legs, our asses and our stomachs? I highly doubt it.So colour me completely f***ing unsurprised that a culture which is so strictly mired in class warfare and which has languished in regards to real gender equality has also - for almost half a century - been successful in turning such a banal and entitled celebration of the male gaze into an aspirational career move for young women. All so that one incredibly rich man can keep earning more money at the expense of women’s rights to dignity, humanity and even their very safety.”Clementine Ford on the end of The Sun’s Page 3 ‘girls’.Read the full piece here -- source link

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