The end of page 3?

[BrilloPad]

Leveson inquiry: newspapers 'should abide by TV watershed standards' - Telegraph

"nonsensical that a child of any age could buy tabloids that include topless page 3 girls, when such images are banned from prime-time TV by broadcasting regulations."

[northernladuk]

This was on Radio 4 Womens hour this morning. A load of feminist groups were going to tell the Leveson enquiry it needs to expand it's remit to include the way women are reported in the news. As ever they put some bloke (can't remember his name) up against 3 angry feminists and grilled him and this came up. He did a great job of defending himself without upsetting the women for a change and advised them more women complained about them removing page 3 last time and that a pair of norks was hardly porn. He also advised them the huge majority readership of the Sun was male. He could have also pointed out that the words News and The Sun shouldn't really exist in the same sentance but maybe that is just opinion

I am all for equality and all that but when they get wound up on Womans Hour it really puts my back up.

[pacharan]

This was on Radio 4 Womens hour this morning. A load of feminist groups were going to tell the Leveson enquiry it needs to expand it's remit to include the way women are reported in the news. As ever they put some bloke (can't remember his name) up against 3 angry feminists and grilled him and this came up. He did a great job of defending himself without upsetting the women for a change and advised them more women complained about them removing page 3 last time and that a pair of norks was hardly porn. He also advised them the huge majority readership of the Sun was male. He could have also pointed out that the words News and The Sun shouldn't really exist in the same sentance but maybe that is just opinion

I am all for equality and all that but when they get wound up on Womans Hour it really puts my back up.

I remember my mum listening to Womans Hour when I was a boy.

It was all wholesome stuff about jam making and such like.

Obviously, it has a different remit these days.

Wonder what Waggoners Walk would be like if it were still on.

[Pondlife]

This was on Radio 4 Womens hour this morning. A load of feminist groups were going to tell the Leveson enquiry it needs to expand it's remit to include the way women are reported in the news. As ever they put some bloke (can't remember his name) up against 3 angry feminists and grilled him and this came up. He did a great job of defending himself without upsetting the women for a change and advised them more women complained about them removing page 3 last time and that a pair of norks was hardly porn. He also advised them the huge majority readership of the Sun was male. He could have also pointed out that the words News and The Sun shouldn't really exist in the same sentance but maybe that is just opinion

I am all for equality and all that but when they get wound up on Womans Hour it really puts my back up.

Okay, can anyone spot what NLUK is doing wrong here? Anyone...

[Paddy]

Leveson inquiry: newspapers 'should abide by TV watershed standards' - Telegraph

"nonsensical that a child of any age could buy tabloids that include topless page 3 girls, when such images are banned from prime-time TV by broadcasting regulations."

Do they want to outlaw breatfeeding kids as well?

[wobbegong]

Do they want to outlaw breatfeeding kids as well?

It's the thin end of the wedge I tells ya! It'll be the lingerie pages in the Freemans catalogue next!

[d000hg]

"nonsensical that a child of any age could buy tabloids that include topless page 3 girls, when such images are banned from prime-time TV by broadcasting regulations."

Well logically, they're right aren't they...

a pair of norks was hardly porn

Of course it is, that's the entire reason it's there in the first place. It may be soft but how many blokes do you reckon used to over page 3 when the internet wasn't everywhere?

[VectraMan]

Of course it is, that's the entire reason it's there in the first place. It may be soft but how many blokes do you reckon used to over page 3 when the internet wasn't everywhere?

Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I think there's been a fair few 16-year old Page 3 girls. Which means it can't be porn, or it'd be child porn.

Perhaps they should be forced to post pictures of moobs for a few decades, to restore the balance.

[xoggoth]

Why not? Never had any porn or page 3 when I was an adolescent, I had to w* over my sister's copies of Horse and Hound.

PS Oh yes, and there was a great medical book my mum had.

[original PM]

Why not? Never had any porn or page 3 when I was an adolescent, I had to w* over my sister

PS Oh yes, and there was a great medical book my mum had.

FTFY


(well someone had too)