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Lads' mags - what do we think?

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Sel Mon 03-Jun-13 16:26:13

Magazines carried by major retailers are surely tame stuff. The real worry is online porn which is hardcore, corrupting and easily accessed by young children. UK Feminista should re-direct their attentions to that.

whenim64 Mon 03-Jun-13 16:00:07

Agree wholeheartedly! Men who buy these magazines have a double standard about women, and reiniforce the view that it is ok to sexually objectify women. I cringe if I go into a home where these mags are lay around for children to see. They give children a warped view of adult women, and contribute to the premature deviant sexualisation of girls.

Canvas any treatment group of domestic violence perpetrators r child molesters and you can guarantee that they have a stash of these mags, which are a gateway to pornography. It's not about being narrow-minded. It's about having respect for women as thinking, feeling humans who are not there to be used abused by men.

Idiots like Helen Flanagan, who posed 'sexily' with a gun for photos recently, encourage naive girls to get involved in 'glamour' modelling for easy money. She'd be violently sick if she saw how many child abusers and domestic violence peretrators had used that image as masturbatory material.

Lilygran Mon 03-Jun-13 15:48:39

What do they mean by "lad's mags" ? If it's FHM it's just rather silly. If it's "top shelf" stuff, yes, take them off display and out of the shops. I would ban some magazines aimed at women and girls as well, though!

merlotgran Mon 03-Jun-13 15:35:48

Calling them lads mags gives them a kind of 'nudge nudge, wink wink' rite of passage reputation but it's the thought of creepy older men reading them that makes me shudder.

I would like to see them removed from top shelves of magazine displays.

FlicketyB Mon 03-Jun-13 15:35:23

Make them mail order or from Sex shops only so that they are not on display in ordinary newsagents.

j08 Mon 03-Jun-13 15:19:29

Oh yes!! I found one of those down the side of DS' s bed after he moved out!

Ban 'em! #dirtybuggers

GeraldineGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 03-Jun-13 15:12:17

We've been asked to support a campaign called "lose the lads' mags" which is being run by UK Feminista and Object and is calling on retailers to stop displaying and selling lads' mags.

So we wanted to canvass views...

The campaigners argue these magazines encourage the idea that women are objects and so help to create an atmosphere in which sexual violence becomes acceptable. A group of discrimination lawyers claims that the display of these images amounts to discrimination against women and breaches equality legislation.

So what do we think?