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The Sun Drops Page 3
Albino Bunny
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So hey, news I can post about. British news in particular:
The Sun (UK's tacky, tabloid style paper) has dropped it's 40 year long tradition of page 3 featuring female models in various (usually topless) states of undress. The feature was initially brought in less than a year after Rupert Murdoch brought the paper in 1970. However in recent times the feature faced growing criticism from groups accusing it of being objectifying to women and not in line with modern times. Notably one called No More Page 3 attracted 215,000 signatures in 2012. Other opposition includes thirty universities not selling the Sun on campus until it drops the feature.
Though admittedly in this case the drop hasn't yet being formally announced (with editors apparently in the past having said they understand the issues with Page 3 but struggle to drop it due to it's popularity). Plus the current Page 3 hasn't had too radical a shift:
Basically just sticking the tops back on their models. To top it all off the Sun's online site dedicated to Page 3 (obviously not safe for work). Is still running at full steam. So whether this is just them shaking up the articles, a testing toe dipped into the waters or the Sun purposefully courting controversy is yet to be really seen.
But for the mean time, one teeny, tiny step for feminism I guess?
The Sun (UK's tacky, tabloid style paper) has dropped it's 40 year long tradition of page 3 featuring female models in various (usually topless) states of undress. The feature was initially brought in less than a year after Rupert Murdoch brought the paper in 1970. However in recent times the feature faced growing criticism from groups accusing it of being objectifying to women and not in line with modern times. Notably one called No More Page 3 attracted 215,000 signatures in 2012. Other opposition includes thirty universities not selling the Sun on campus until it drops the feature.
Though admittedly in this case the drop hasn't yet being formally announced (with editors apparently in the past having said they understand the issues with Page 3 but struggle to drop it due to it's popularity). Plus the current Page 3 hasn't had too radical a shift:
Basically just sticking the tops back on their models. To top it all off the Sun's online site dedicated to Page 3 (obviously not safe for work). Is still running at full steam. So whether this is just them shaking up the articles, a testing toe dipped into the waters or the Sun purposefully courting controversy is yet to be really seen.
But for the mean time, one teeny, tiny step for feminism I guess?
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