Should we back the No More Page 3 campaign? Please let us know what you think...

I have. 12miles off shore in our yacht with one tanker barely visible on the horizon. Young son remarked 'Mummy! Someone might see you!'

Galen

It's the "someone" seeing me that puts me off !

In the middle of Lyme bay. They'd need very good binoculars!

Gillybob a newspaper is likely to be seen by children at home. Hopefully other dubious publications would be hidden away.

This is why it needs to be stopped. If gives little girls a false idea of the role of their bodies, and themselves, in life. And it can't help in teaching boys respect for women.

It's got nothing at all to do with whether or not it shocks us. That is totally unimportant.

Only if someone buys it and brings it in though jingle. That could be said of any publications no matter how pornographic it is.

I don't think little girls do get false ideas of the role of their bodies from Page 3. I think the TV and girls magagazines do that.

I agree with you up to a point jingle, I would indeed think it's possible that little girls could subliminally be given a very skewed and one dimensional idea of the role of the female body from page 3 of The Sun if they saw it often enough. Unfortunately, as gillybob stated, there is enough other pernicious material around that is probably more detrimental, and kids today are growing up in a time where sexualised images are everywhere Just take a look at some of the videos that are around to promote music with so called "twerking", or whatever it's called. Miley Cyrus and Rhianna will probably hold more sway with impressionable youngsters and both are worse role models than the air brushed and vacuous looking page 3 girl. Personally if I never see another picture of an uncovered butt projected outwards in a suggestive manner and the all too familiar lolling tongue hanging out of the side of a mouth I'd be very happy. It seems that most boys now all view the female sex through the prism of pornography. From everything I've read most have viewed awful material from an incredibly early age and it seems that it is changing their behaviour towards their female counterparts and not for the better. This is far more concerning, particularly the way some young girls, often under duress, text suggestive and sometimes obscene photos of themselves I can't imagine that wont affect them adversely further down the line. Sadly for them they seem to have far worse things to put up with now than being irritated, as I was many years ago with the advent of page 3. I certainly wouldn't want to be a teenager today, either with or without all their gadgets.

Yes, yes, please support the no more page three because boobs aren't news
Campaign. I will sign the petition now

Yes please do support this campaign Gransnet.

Only just found this discussion/petition and have signed. Of course GN should support the campaign. About time women of all ages stood up and shouted about what's appropriate and respectful and what's not. I wouldn't dream of buy this rag of a newspaper and I respect the people of Liverpool who by and large boycott it following the Hillsborough disaster. People power is all down to the power of one, and if enough get together and make their voice heard, things can change. Thanks GN for supporting this and offering the chance to sign.

I signed when it first started because I hate the thought of my grandchildren seeing images of naked breasts on display in shops.

I've been a supporter for some time. It's part of the feminist movement to release women from being treated as objects to be used by men.

Very pleased GN is supporting this. Obviously for many of the reasons already given but also have sad memories of censoring newspapers brought in to cover tables for painting classes when I taught in London. All those slavering Year 6 boys did not make a pretty picture!

Of course we must support this -i have been s campaigning feminist since the80 s and i cant believe we are still fighting this one -breasts are not news men need to get a grip

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Me too, rubbishnanny, and I signed up to the campaign immediately. I can remember when, many years ago and I was quite a little girl, page 3 first appeared, my first thought was "Don't they look silly?" and of course they still do. Unfortunately there are, even today, many men who only think of women as tits-on-legs, and we still live in a society which urges women to "get them out for the lads" but acts shocked if you get them out for the baby!

Yes and already signed

Yes to this campaign. I hate seeing "alluring" photos being used to sell muck peeping out at me from newsagents etc. I also take exception to Tshirts like the one I saw in local High Street this morning with the gist "while you're working out what this says, I'm checking over your tits". Sexist insults!

Yes, and also support the campaign to stop sex adverts in local and national papers - these women are often trafficked and forced into the sex trade

I have signed the petition. Page 3 is totally unnecessary in a newspaper and it is time to end it!

Yes - I support the ''No More Page 3 campaign''
I also support campaigns for the banning of the almost continuous depiction of violence and the glorification of the use of guns, shown in TV entertainment imported from that home of the modern day Death Cult = USA.

AAAHM - I don't believe it's helpful to tag the other issues you raise on to the debate about Page 3, and all that goes with it. The issues you identify are important, but quite separate from Page 3, which is important in its own right.

Yes of course we must support the campaign. No question!

Thank you Iam64 for the opportunity to expand on the issue. Is not one of the main planks of the campaign against ''P3'' that it objectifies women, reducing them from humans into commodities? Having done so, is it not one of the factors which enables some men to justify violence against this ''sub-species''? The glorification of gun violence as the salve for righting wrongs combines with this perspective resulting in the gun enabled, semi-detached slaughter of families by a father who is facing what he considers to be public shame and humiliation. This is a scenario which is reported in UK frequently, is it not?
I would therefore argue that you make the very same point as I, when you write '' ... the debate about Page 3, and all that goes with it.

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