Feminist showing their true colours re lad mags

What is your justification for having this image prominently displayed in full magazine-sized format to children in supermarkets across the country?

I fail to see how this crusade is in anyway feminist. Tesco have agreed to cover them up and only sell them to adults and they are still not happy. A lot of so called feminists are just female supremacists who hate men.

What is your justification for having this image prominently displayed in full magazine-sized format to children in supermarkets across the country?

"Feminazi". This thread actually starts with an example of Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law), which is unusual - normally the Fuhrer and his cohorts only make an appearance towards the later stages of the thread.

The 'feminazi' insult is now routine and it means "a woman who stands up for herself and other women in public".

I don't think this makes me a "Nazi", to be honest - wanting liberation of my fellow women

So by now, we're all fully aware of the feministazis campaign against those salacious lad mags because they're too sexual and cause harm to children despite no evidence for such. This has been their selling point and focus of their campaign, with many repeating that they have no desire to have the magazines banned.

Now, the industry has acquiesced to their desire with plans to only have prudish toned-downed front cover (similar to those seen in many other magazine especially womens' magazine). Not only this, they are also going to place the magazines at the back of the shelf so that their front cover is obscured by other magazine (you know to protect those innocent children from this evil thing), and, for the coup de grace, this magazine will now be sold to 18 year olds or over.

Now you'd think that the feminazis will be happy will the clampdown. Well here's their reaction:

Kat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista, one of two groups behind the Lose the Lad Mags campaign, said that lobbying to have the titles removed from shelves altogether would continue, "because they are deeply harmful. They fuel sexist behaviours which underpin violence against women."

She added: "By continuing to profit from the content of lads' mags, Tesco is still sending out the message that it's acceptable to portray women in this way."

So, can this people stop with their bull**** agenda that this is all about protecting children as, it's rather about the banning of something that they find distasteful.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/02/tesco-lads-mags-covers-more-modest

Out of interest what's your justification for not having it displayed? Do terrible things happen to children if they see a woman's torso, or discover that adults are a bit obsessed with sex?

"Lad's mags" are completely different to women's magazines which may show a topless man on the cover (much less common than scantily-clad women on men's magazines). Misandry does not exist, much like "reverse racism". Men have not been subject to the degradation, hyper sexualisation and objectification which constantly plagues women today. Men are the dominant sex - we still live in a society which struggles against resistance to be patriarchal.
Moreover, "lad's mags" provide completely unrealistic expectations of women which are unhealthy for both self-esteem of women and the male treatment of women who may not live up to these standards (basically every woman, everywhere). Also I may remind you that it is perfectly legal for men to go topless in public as they are on the covers of few women's magazines - and yet if I went outside topless as a woman I would be arrested for indecent exposure.
I don't think this makes me a "Nazi", to be honest - wanting liberation of my fellow women cannot exactly be equated to the desire for extreme ethnic cleansing and eugenics...

We continue to live in a society run by men. The elite is controlled by men. Yes, women in the Western world have more influence than before - more women go to university, for instance. However women cannot walk along the street without fear of being embarrassed by unwanted attention and cat calls. Women are molested on public transport. Women cannot go out by themselves after dark for fear of rape. So yes, we do live in a patriarchy - women just want one less thing to be afraid of, and it happens to be public degradation through these magazine covers. A small thing.

I do agree that it is a bit ridiculous for them to want to ban 'lad mags', especially as they are normally on higher shelves, whereas magazines like Cosmopolitan are shown on the lower shelves, normally alongside children/teenage magazines.

Stop with the propaganda. None of what you say is true. Seriously stop it.

I think you know perfectly well that that image is more than just a torso - it is pornography dressed up as a 'bit of fun'. In adult contexts - fine. In the context of mass market magazines displayed mid-shelf in every outlet in the country - not fine.

That's why tesco have agreed to hide all of the covers and only sell them to adults. Yet this is somehow not good enough for the feminist groups (that you were supporting the other day), who essentially want a ban.

Stop with the propaganda. None of what you say is true. Seriously stop it.

I saw lads mags on mid-shelf positions at eye level or below eye level in a number of supermarkets last week. I was looking out for them, out of curiosity. They are frequently NOT in the top shelves.