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

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KatGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 20-Feb-14 16:25:28

We've been contacted by the No More Page 3 campaign to ask if we'd like to be added to their list of supporters, so we thought we'd put it to gransnetters to tell us what you think about the campaign.

The campaign started in the summer when Lucy Holmes found she couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that the largest female image in The Sun was of a young woman showing her breasts for men, even though Jessica Ennis had just won her gold Olympic medal.

We'd like to know your thoughts on the campaign, if you support it and your reasons behind it - and if you do support the campaign, if you've already signed the petition.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 20-Feb-14 16:35:43

Of course support it! Why wouldn't you? confused

rosesarered Thu 20-Feb-14 16:38:37

I have always hated the page 3 idea, how can it advance the cause of feminism to allow this in newspapers? I am not as some people like to put it a 'rabid feminist' [read that once, as some woman said she didn't like page 3, needless to say it was a man who said it.]Am more like a 'mild feminist' but think it's high time topless girls/women stopped strutting their stuff in the papers.It devalues us.So yes, I do support this campaign, and haven't signed a petition, only because I didn't know that there was one!

shysal Thu 20-Feb-14 16:39:12

Support it and signed it. I wish all forms of porn would be banned as well. Using women as sex objects is unacceptable.

Anne58 Thu 20-Feb-14 16:41:30

I would definitely support it!

Anyway, in my opinion the Sun is not a newspaper, it's a comic. Sometimes I see the front page headlines whilst in our village shop, it often seems to be some revelation about some sort of "celebrity" that I have never heard of!

whenim64 Thu 20-Feb-14 16:43:20

Yes, I signed it a while back. It's time the page 3 era was dead and buried. Riles me when I see reports of assaults on women and children next to females depicted as sex objects.

Lightside Thu 20-Feb-14 16:54:29

A no-brainer. Of course we should support a campaign that seeks to end the gross objectification of women in the UK's biggest selling newspaper. We owe it to every generation of girls and boys, women and men.

grannyactivist Thu 20-Feb-14 16:56:10

Yes. I've been an individual supporter of this campaign almost since it started.

Lona Thu 20-Feb-14 17:04:46

Of course Gransnet should support it.
Signed.

Ana Thu 20-Feb-14 17:05:35

Yes.

mollie Thu 20-Feb-14 17:09:47

yes!

ffinnochio Thu 20-Feb-14 17:12:41

YES I've been supporting it for some time.

Joelsnan Thu 20-Feb-14 17:13:04

Yes

kittylester Thu 20-Feb-14 17:13:30

Yes and signed

sunseeker Thu 20-Feb-14 17:14:49

I hadn't realised there was still a "page 3", thought it had died a death. Of course GN should support it. Signed

Audrey01 Thu 20-Feb-14 17:23:25

Support it with a good Bra it will die a natural death then that's for sure!!!

Stansgran Thu 20-Feb-14 17:26:39

I had already signed. Gransnet should support this .with all the easy access to porn on the web I'm afraid it's too late.

JessM Thu 20-Feb-14 17:32:52

Yes, removing these images from the news stand would be a start.

Granniefae Thu 20-Feb-14 17:42:26

Definitely. Will check if I have already signed. If I haven't, I'll get on and do it.

Galen Thu 20-Feb-14 18:08:24

Signed and yes!

Natsnan Thu 20-Feb-14 18:17:08

Yes and signed.

absent Thu 20-Feb-14 18:20:24

Yes.

Ana Thu 20-Feb-14 18:35:43

It's just occurred to me that even if for some strange reason someone on here didn't support this campaign, they'd hardly dare say as much. So of course all the responses are going to be 'yes'! grin

goldengirl Thu 20-Feb-14 18:36:40

Signed. Noticed that Russell Brand is backing the campaign which rather surprised me for some reason

Penstemmon Thu 20-Feb-14 18:53:03

Yes, I have signed ... boobs are not news... over 50% of the population have them! So we do not need them bared in 'newspapers'!