As both a woman and someone with boobs, I'm fully behind Lucy Holmes' petition asking Dominic Mohan to "Take Page 3 out of The Sun".
But I'd argue that the newspaper which is far more damaging to women's self esteem - and equally if not more adept at portraying them as merely physical objects - is the Daily Mail.
Day after day - and hour after hour on its website, the Mail Online - the Daily Mail continues to bombard us with 'stories' about women which revolve solely around how they look.
How much weight they've gained. How much weight they've lost. What they're wearing - or the lack of what they're wearing.
One look at the right-hand rail of the Mail Online shows that the paper is never interested in these women's careers, talents or brains. It's never interested in women as actors or musicians or businesswomen. It is solely interested in how they look - and in criticising them relentlessly about it.
I'm sure that they think they're somehow making us 'real' women feel better ('real women' being an awful Daily Mail/women's magazine phrase to mean non-celebrities, as if famous people were less 'real' and thus less deserving of our respect) by holding up images of 'unreal' women and criticising them. But in fact, it damages all women - because the subliminal message is: "You know that really, really gorgeous woman who's completely beautiful and extremely slim? Well, we think she looks like SHIT! So guess what you look like?! Hahaha!"
So by all means, let's petition Dominic Mohan. But let's also petition the Mail Online's publisher, Martin Clarke. To follow Ms Holmes' example, maybe the petition could read thus:
Martin Clarke: Take The Barely-Disguised Misogyny Out Of The Mail Online #nomorerighthandrail
"We are asking Martin Clarke to drop the barely-disguised misogyny from the Mail Online.
We are asking very nicely.
Please, Martin.
No more fixating on how women look.
George Alagiah doesn't say, 'And now over to Angela Merkel, who's flaunting her curves at the G20 summit today' does he, Martin?
Philip and Holly don't tell Claire from Steps that she's wearing just the latest in a series of unflattering outfits on This Morning, do they, Martin?
No, they don't.
There would be an outcry.
And you shouldn't show naked misogyny in your widely read 'family' website either.
Consider this a long overdue outcry.
Martin, stop criticising young women for the way they look on Britain's most widely read news website, stop conditioning your readers to view women as physical objects.
Enough is enough.
Thank you."
Would anyone else like to sign it?
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Part of growing up is realising that other people have opinions that may offend you. Nobody is obliged to read the 'Daily Mail'. Are you demanding that women should be treated like children and shielded from things that might upset them? Bear in mind all the legal restrictions placed on children, and be careful what you wish for!
Physical beauty may not be a person's only important characteristic, but to disregard it altogether is spiteful and disingenuous: we have no problem discussing the physical beauty of the natural world or of painting or of sculpture. Do you want to tell good-looking women (or good-looking men) who may have no other skills that you want to get rid of their jobs because they make you feel inadequate?
Stop using the word 'misogyny' so lightly. Misogyny is hatred of women.
In the age of the Internet, page three is pretty much irrelevant any way.
Most magazine publications are similar to the daily mail and purchased by women too. Sometimes it better to worry about trivual things like how you look than take stock of the reality of our sad world today.
Makes light reading and yes I am female.
Bit of slip there for an editor. So how should the readers be conditioned, programed to regard women, just out of interest?
1. This was either a publicity stunt or...
2. She is an incredibly stupid girl.