The End Of Page Three???

[sp1814]

The sad demise of a harmless British tradition, brought low by a phalanx of hairy feminists and liberal yoghurt knitters?

Or the welcome eradication of a blatantly sexist anachronism in what purports to be a family newspaper?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/has-the-sun-axed-page-3-topless-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw

You might assume from my inclusion of the words 'phalanx', 'anachronism' and 'purports' in the above questions, that I am one of the aforementioned liberal yoghurt-knitter, but personally I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the future of Page Three...

...other than it might make room for more stories about Kim Kardashian...which I think we can all agree is a very bad thing indeed.

Your thoughts?

[Retrochic]

jd-1984 yes of course you went out with a glamour model -I saw you once in KU -I was with Johnny Depp -remember?

[Baldric]

Is it the cold weather that's brought on the general S O H failure do you think?

[Svejk]

There's a Christian woman in Pakistan about to be executed for drinking from a Muslim cup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Bibi_blasphemy_case
And Page3 is making 'the sisterhood' angry.

[naomi24]

A fuss over nothing.

[Retrochic]

Baldric -seems you are the one with a SOH malfunction - half these replies are tongue in cheek lol!

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// I expect to be able to read in a newspaper in any public place such as the bus, train or park bench.
I don't want to feel uncomfortable because the youngster sitting close by happens to see page 3.
There is a time and place and a daily newspaper isn't it. ///

Then we should make the reading of newspapers in front of a youngster illegal, since some of the photographs of the atrocities committed around the world are more frightening than the sight of the female breast, after all they were the main source of food in their younger days.

[237SJ]

Looks like the Sun online still has page 3 - today`s lucky lass is Lucy from Warwick so there is still something for all the oldies on here for whom a pert pair of boobs is but a distant memory (or mammary)

[anotheoldgit]

retrocop

/// Look at hen nights when male strippers are on the programme. No one tell me that all women are shrinking violets!! ///

Yes you have certainly hit upon it there retro, when the girls gather to have a hen night and on the menu are male strippers, it is then classed as good girlie night out fun.

Yet when men have stag nights that include female strippers, they are classed as the 'dirty mac brigade' why is this.

[ichkeria]

Maybe people think it is inappropriate for a serious national newspaper. Tho that would surely be an irrelevant argument in this case
Anyway, the key thing is : it will continue online!!
That surely is the interesting bit.
So they aren't actually stopping it

[Retrochic]

Girlie night out? Male Strippers? Do not presume ALL women like to do this, Many women find male strippers sad and anything but erotic. They show themselves up and so do the women who go and push things down their thongs.

[Cloverjo]

I don't mind anyone looking at whatever they want online. I just don't want them to when I'm in the same room, on the same train or whatever.
The fact that I don't like page 3, and would be pleased if it ended has, no bearing on what I think of the atrocities committed against women, such as stoning etc.

[youngmafbog]

//Yes you have certainly hit upon it there retro, when the girls gather to have a hen night and on the menu are male strippers, it is then classed as good girlie night out fun//

Yes, but they are not the 'hairy feminists' (have you seen a picture of the wimin leading the campaign) complaining are they.

Surely it should be down to the buying public. This is supposed to be a free country (except of course when something upsets the liberals)

[Retrochic]

youngmafblog yeh! hairy ugly feminists -of course they are. I mean, pretty fit women can't possibly have a brain now can they -we all know female intelligence and free will makes you fat and ugly.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHlg6ZJo2iY/UwFTlybsHnI/AAAAAAAACws/caZ8tpbkAJc/s1600/beyonce,+the+superbowl,+and+the+fine+line+between+ownng+our+sexuality+and+exploiting+it_thumb%5B1%5D.png

[jno]

Surely it should be down to the buying public

It is. Murdoch doesn't withdraw things that are selling well (News of the World was an extreme exception). He's decided, like others, that pages that look like they belong in the 1970s aren't selling any more.

The Sun's circulation is falling about 10% a year.

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo

/// AOG, yes you can just not buy the paper if you're offended by page 3. However, it just makes me uncomfortable seeing the men I work with look at it. That's not a Victorian attitude. ///

So it is not an urban myth that some women don't like to see men enjoying themselves?

/// By the way it's a myth that they covered up table legs because they were embarrassed/ offended or anything like that. It was simply to protect them from knocks. ///

Did you mean to put "knockers"? :0)

[youngmafbog]

Retro chick, before getting on your high horse why didnt you read the 2nd line of the Op from SP? //brought low by a phalanx of hairy feminists //

But then of course you couldn't have taken great indignation could you?

Get a life.

[youngmafbog]

Quite jno, I actually think it has run it's course. I read the Sun for years and barely gave it a glance.

Sales are more than likely falling due to the internet and the rising price of The Currant.

[ichkeria]

...and the News of the World just came back with a different but similar name, which was probably always the intention

[naomi24]

I always thought women’s libbers suffered from a sense of humour failure. When they use Ms rather than Miss or Mrs, I read it as ‘misery’.

[jd_1984]

//jd-1984 yes of course you went out with a glamour model -I saw you once in KU -I was with Johnny Depp -remember? //

I have never told a lie on this page in the 3-4 years I have been a member.
I had a relevant argument to something that you had said. Girls who model do have boyfriends. Say hi to Johnny Depp next time you see him!