Banish the Boobs: UK feminists want 'lad mags' removed from shelves

DavidByron · 2013-06-09T14:00:49+00:00

So let me get this right.

Women should be able to walk around topless -- because boobs aren't sexual. But magazines showing women's boobs should be banned -- because boobs are sexual.

Sounds about right for feminist logic.

Grubnar · 2013-06-09T10:01:45+00:00

So much for the "Sexual Revolution."

TorontoMike · 2013-06-09T11:00:32+00:00

So to feminists a woman with pornography is "empowerment, sexual freedom you go girl !!"

A man with a magazine that has women in a bathing suits are disgusting perverts that are objectifying women and are potential rapists

nigglereddit · 2013-06-09T11:05:24+00:00

Never going to happen.

The magazines are perfectly legal, and reveal no more on their covers than most women mags. The courts won't make a ruling which will close legitimate businesses and cost hundreds of jobs.

2013-06-09T17:24:59+00:00

Remember when Feminists were allied with Hugh Hefner? Remember that whole sexual liberation thing that made society so much more vibrant and free?

Explain to me, 21st century Feminists, why you want to undo all of your mothers' and grand mothers' work?

Modern day feminism is not a liberal, progressive movement. It has become a conservative movement that now seeks to cement itself in place. It doesn't seek equality - it seeks a return to the 1950's with women in place of men.

FetusMulcher · 2013-06-09T13:07:46+00:00

Woman steals magazines from store and faces no repercussion.

Only kidding

clone1205 · 2013-06-09T21:45:44+00:00

I've written about this before (only about a bbc article on the same story), I'll paste it here too:

What the actual fuck? UK Feminista director Kat Banyard said so-called lads' mags fuelled sexist attitudes and behaviour by portraying women as "sex objects". She told the BBC the images caused "real harm". "They promote sexist attitudes and behaviours - attitudes which underpin violence against women," she said.

As opposed to cosmo which gives out psychotic advice on how to seek revenge against male partners who MIGHT be cheating. Here's 1 shining example which overtly glorifies supposedly righteous domestic violence.

It's not just cosmo either here is a generic glossy magazine telling teen girls how to have a casual relationship without actually telling the other person that it is casual, also with bonus get out excuse when she becomes bored Double bonus check out the left of the glossy magazine that gives out some kind of hot guy rating, that seems a lot of objectification...

Remember the fucking outcry when FHM supposedly normalised violence against women by referring to them as "victim" (when really it meant victim of sock theft with no reference to their gender)?

Where the fuck is the mainstream media outcry over the female magazines depictions of males as sex objects and promotion of violence?

Anyway, not that I'm defending lad's mags. Just pointing out that there is a massive double standard in demonizing 1 thing whilst ignoring it's parallel that is guilty of the same transgressions because it doesn't fall neatly into your little portrayal of the way the world works.

doules107 · 2013-06-09T14:57:43+00:00

Maybe they could ban those tabloid magazines too. They play to the stereotype that women are interested in the comings and goings of celebrities.

And they could also ban the fashion mags, and the young womens mags, and the other magazines which portray women as 'beautiful' because it enforces the patriarchy and beauty stereotypes.

And they could ban the magazines about house-keeping, gardening, cooking, and other such topics because they reinforce the housewife steretypes which are so damaging to modern woman's self-image.

In fact, why not just ban all magazines because they tend to contain advertisements which almost invariably portray women as objects.

/s

2013-06-09T11:40:33+00:00

Did anyone else notice the guy in the background at 1:03 - 1:07?

Omni314 · 2013-06-09T17:36:44+00:00

if they really cared they'd mention men's health, just once.

2013-06-10T10:52:36+00:00

I'm kind of in two minds about this one.

I definitely don't think there are any grounds for these to be banned. That would be seriously back-tracking to the old sensibilities that the female body was somehow shameful.

However, if you had spent any time around a certain type of working-class, UK male, you would start getting pissed off with the "lad mag" culture as well. On a very base level it's infuriating because teenage boys grow up thinking that these pictures are what all women are meant to look like – and start being very deriding towards anyone who doesn't fit the ideal. (Please, guys, before you start going "double standard! Men are portrayed as Ken dolls!" I am aware of that, I'm trying to make a point from one view and it doesn't belittle the other)

Deeper than that, it really does perpetuate the idea that women are sex objects – to a rather damaging degree. Most of the people who read this sub are pretty well educated; but most of the men who read these magazines are not. That's the way it is. People soak in the culture they are exposed to and start acting accordingly.

Title	Banish the Boobs: UK feminists want 'lad mags' removed from shelves
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Date	June 9, 2013 9:18 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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