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Take 2.
I have big boobs. I found them a curse as a young teen. Page 3 was often referred to, flaunted at me and comparisons made. I never did read it or buy it. Just suffered at the hands of those who did. So just because YOU didn't, it still doesn't make it right. To me it was the equivalent of cyber bullying, but harder to prove. I felt humiliated growing up in an age where it was deemed perfectly acceptable for older men, who I felt should be fatherly figures, to shout out things like 'show us yer tits love!' and then laugh raucously as if they had said something clever and hilarious. I used to go miles out of my way every day on the way to school as I had to avoid building sites. I would have thought school uniform made me immune - I was after all only 11 when the waving of page 3 in my face started.
I hadn't realised how happy I was about Page 3 closing until - it didn't. I am a confident and outgoing person, but thanks to Page 3, I nearly wasn't. Once I was tall enough to see what was on the covers of magazines, I stopped going into newsagents. I had papers delivered when I left home. My mother admitted to turning magazines over when she had the chance, yet she was no prude. I have no objections whatsoever to the human body being seen naked, but it has to be an equal showing with those of males, and not in public for titillation purposes. Which Page 3 most certainly is.
Many of you are a generation older than me. maybe men were more chivalrous when you were young, I don't know. Maybe the swinging sixties did my generation no favours. But The Sun figured hugely in many distasteful episodes.
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