WUNRN
UK – “Lads Mags” – Controversial on Discrimination
Against Women, Sexism – Feminist Campaign Power but Continued Exploitation
The example in UK of how Women’s Advocacy was able to put
a dent in the rampant displays of Lad Mags, could be a model for activism in
other places. The Mags did not disappear, but the campaign brought forward the
discrimination against women, the sexism, the harmful stereotypes, the pornography.
Engaging public sentiment and buying power, retailer participation, and
monitoring, has challenged the degrading image of women in Lads Mags and
affected their distribution.
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NFRN - The National Federation of Retail Newsagents
(NFRN) was founded in 1919 and is one of Europe’s largest retail trade
associations with over 16,000 independent news and convenience retailers in
membership throughout the UK and Ireland.
Lose the Lad Mags Campaign: http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/05/lose-lads-mags-campaign-demonstrates-power-modern-feminism
Campaigners from Object and Turn Your Back On Page 3
protest outside the Sun's office in east London. Photograph: Leon
Neal/AFP/Getty Images
UK They take up just 13 of the Leveson report's 1957
pages but the judge's comments on newspaper treatment of women ("reduced
to the sum of their body parts") and minorities ("concerning")
could have far-reaching implications.
The 16-month inquiry provided an opportunity, for the
very first time, for campaigning organisations to complain about discriminatory
reporting by British newspapers. What's more, the learned judge found that many
newspapers, particularly the popular tabloids, had a case to answer.
Discrimination against women and minorities (including
immigrants and asylum seekers but also Muslims) "merit further
consideration by any new regulator", he added. (Under the current press
complaints system, a group complaint is not ordinarily admissible, but clause
12 outlaws discrimination of this sort.)
Many of the objections made by campaign groups including End Violence against Women coalition, Object, Turn Your Back on Page 3 and Eaves, have been dismissed as an assault on the commercially successful Page 3 and its "harmless" diet of topless women. If you don't like it, don't buy it is the oft-given response……
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