Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SU
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Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUThe feminist society at the LSE have submitted a proposal to ban The Sun and 'Lads Mags' from our Student Union shop.
What do people think?(Original post by The Feminists)
We believe
1.The homogenous representation of women’s bodies illustrated in FHM and the Sun is misogynistic.
2.The images within both publications are heteronormative, in their assumptions of what constitutes ‘normal’ sexual relations.
3.The images assume that women are sexually passive objects; and that relationships between men and women are equivalent to the relationship of predator and prey.
4.The images are often airbrushed and encourage unrealistic and unattainable expectations of women’s bodies. Such expectations contribute to the proliference of eating disorders, and negative body image.
5.Any industry which promotes the objectification of women inevitably has an impact on the sexist attitudes which underpin violence and sexual abuse, and as such cannot be said to be harmless fun. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUits a SU not a working mans cafe, i'm not sure it's going to cause that big a stir if they were removed.
but I also dont think feminism is as strong a cause it used to be.
so I dont think anybody cares either way. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUWhy not vote to ban computers and laptops as well? No, instead lets stop publications which show a pair of tits. **** sake, these feminists will do anything to prove there current existence in 2010 is neccesary.
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUTell them to find something to whine about that people actually care about.
Then ask them if they have done any research of the student body to see if The Sun has had a negative affect on them, or whether they have just sat down and pulled these conclusions out of their rusty vaginas. However logical they think their reasoning is of how The Sun and FHM is harming people, if they haven't got any evidence then their conclusions are completely worthless. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUBloody Feminazi's. Twenty-first century man has totally subjugated 4 billion years of evolution and now, whenever he looks at a woman, sees only her inner beauty. People who read these publications are obviously throwbacks to a more primitive, superficial time.
I'll read whatever I please and if it offends your sensibilities so be it.Last edited by Kingpin101; 03-02-2010 at 00:37. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUThis is something I don't like about student unions. The issues they should be dealing with are student specific ones, not general political issues. Ok in this case it's actually a society proposing this which is fine I guess, as long as the SU doesn't give in.
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUWouldn't it be better for their argument if they tried, nationally of course, to get The Sun to remove the page 3 pictures?
Either way, I'm not really too bothered. I'm all for equality, but every feminist I know has just gone too far. Flip side though, I don't really read The Sun either. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUAlthough, this made me lol:
Yeah, we're obviously hunting down women to kill them, rip their skin off, chew out all their muscle and leave them to rot in the wild. How is it predator and prey at all?3.The images assume that women are sexually passive objects; and that relationships between men and women are equivalent to the relationship of predator and prey. -
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUMen know women get airbrushed etc in mags, the same way they know most pornstars have fake tits and fannies more loose than a wizards sleeve, yet this doesn't discourage their appreciation for a normal womans body.
A very fitting picture indeed:
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUThis is actually ridiculous and pointless. For starters not that many guys buy them in the first place and even if they do it's mostly for a laugh. Only an idiot would expect all women to look like that and don't take it too seriously. Secondly even if you stop selling them there's only a billion zillion gillion squillion pictures of naked women online. They've even invented pictures of naked women that move, don't you know?!
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Re: Banning The Sun/Lads Mags from SUIn terms of page 3 models they are choosing to take their top off.
No man is grabbing them by the hair dragging across the room and physically forcing them to to do it.
& in terms of airbrushing, should we ban the Christiano Ronaldo armani
ad? Because he's been given a load of airbrusing, it may give off a false image of what men look like
