While I don't approve of politicians interfering with the press and I don't find the pictures on Page 3 of The Sun in any way objectionable, it strikes me that the politician(s) who told Caroline Lucas to "comply with Westminster's dress code" after she pulled this harmless little stunt are complete pompous arseholes. Similarly, if a female politician had gone topless to make a point for or against Page 3 girls, that would have been perfectly reasonable under the circumstances as well.
I mean, it's not like she started a war in Iraq or gave the bankers hundreds of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money or anything, FFS.
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I'm not entirely sure I would want Caroline Lucas to appear topless as a protest. there are limits to what is acceptable.
W42, me neither, but that's her "right to choose", isn't it?
Women wants to end employment for women!
I was sat on the bus today next to an old woman reading the Sun, with it open on P2-3.
I'm often amused by how these women like Lucas think they're representative, when most women I've met couldn't care that much about a pair of tits. After all, looking in the mirror would be a stressful experience.
She should get her priorities right - Henry George is the greatest! is better.
SB, being on page 3 is hardly a full time vocation is it? Most of them only do it once or twice, take the money gladly and move on with their lives.
TS, agreed, I see as many women reading The Sun as men.
P, that is also true, but her LVT bill was delayed so long by the Powers That Be that in the end it was shelved again, you can't really fault her there.
The thing with Page 3 is that it can open doors. You move from there to maybe Loaded, you get invited into places you wouldn't normally, maybe get yourself a rich husband to take care of you, or just become a professional celeb like Jordan.
I worked somewhere where a woman did a shoot for Men Only. One off, reckoned it paid for her car loan for a few months.
I think most of this is intolerance. The sort of dumpy, face-like-a-bag-of-smashed-crabs types that wouldn't feel comfortable appearing naked in front of strangers can't see it as anything but exploitation, when most of these girls are used to topless bathing or doing dares in clubs and are pretty proud of what they've got.
From stories I've heard, fashion modelling is far more sexually exploitative than glamour modelling (as in, people employing models trying to get off with them).
Stigler: suspect final point is at least partly related to the fact that glamour models tend to be adult women, whilst fashion models tend to be 12.
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