Turn your back on page 3

As most of you will know by now, I do enjoy a wee bit of feminism (a lot. i am a feminist is what i'm saying), my personal disgust at the casual approach to sexism within society is beautifully argued by the  amazing people behind a campaign called 'Turn Your Back On Page 3', it is one of the first campaigns to draw attention to the massively sexist ethos that governs the british media, not only the obvious objectification of the Page 3 girls being in everyday circulation, but also the general archaic patriarchal form of the press. It's absolutely disgusting and TYBOPT is the kick we need to realise that. Surely we can all see why half naked women is wrong in an everyday paper. Not only is it objectifying women and giving young girls appalling ideals and young boys disgusting morals, but it shows exactly who the sun thinks their readership is, it's males, it's always males. Can a woman not pick up a paper? Does being female mean you can't read? No, but The Sun makes it obvious women aren't welcomed to read their shoddy excuse for toilet roll. Until we start seeing half naked men in a top selling newspaper, there will be no equality, and even then there is the issue of a disgustingly over sexualised society in which we find it acceptable to circulate, what is in affect pornography, so freely that children can see it. All papers like The Sun and magazines like 'Nuts' (the mere thought of which makes me want to scratch out my own eyeballs) are doing is advertising the sexist ideal, showing boys and men and even women that all women are good for is sex. It's just so so so wrong. Every time you pick up Page 3 or Porn think about how you would feel if that was your daughter or your sister or your bestfriend that people were leering at and your idea of it might change. The Sun is the highest circulating newspaper in the uk, just think about that. A newspaper glorifying the objectification of women is the highest circulating paper in this 'great nation'. We're a nation that pride ourselves on equality and yet the highest circulating paper is fundamentally sexist. This is wrong. This is just so wrong, and yet it's barely even questioned. I cannot express all my disappointment in society over one blog post so I urge you to hear it from the creators, head over to Turn Your Back On Page 3 on facebook and join the struggle against the testosterone fuelled media giants and take a fucking stand. Because let's be honest, it's about bloody time we did.