It is a truth universally acknowledged that Nadine Dorries is completely nucking futz.
Nice to see her confirm it bravissimo…
If you live or work in London you simply cannot help but be confronted by posters adorning the sides of all TFL buses depicting three beautiful teenage lingerie models. The poster is frankly OTT. Since when did it become acceptable to have larger than life posters of provocative and scantily clad women moving up and down every street in London? Where did the mystery go?
So she’d be OK if they were smaller? I must though agree with Nad about it being terrible because I live in Cheshire. You see that as a heterosexual man I quite like pictures of “beautiful teenage lingerie models”. One wonders why.
As it has become acceptable for such images to be viewed everywhere by everyone - whether you want to see them or not - so has it become acceptable to push back the boundaries of what is no longer acceptable. Today’s model on a bus means tomorrow’s porn becomes that much harder.
Porn and harder in the same sentence. Oh, and does the bolded bit actually make sense? touche Nad!
The increasing sexualisation and objectification of young girls and women in the media is becoming a huge issue and has become markedly worse over the last few years and it appears to be our teenagers who are the most concerned and confused.
Right. Right. This is a huge issue because it’s a non-issue. Why is it a concern Nad? Why? You know most of us in the real world like to be “sexualised” and “objectified” at times. Being considered good-looking is not patronising. It is not regarding people as less intelligent or less moral or less anything. The fact my wife has a great ass (and she does) doesn’t mean we enjoy less witty conversation. This is about a peculiar myth that everything equals out in the end. So the bright can’t be beautiful as well because that would be unfair.
We live in a culture whereby our visual and auditory senses are constantly bombarded with images and messages; downloaded into our brain with no filter for objective analysis or warning before the ‘message’ is received.
That is unfiskable.
The breakdown of a strong family culture which was once prevalent within society and provided the moral home spun boundaries teenagers could bounce off, has for many disappeared.
huh?
Take a comment recently made to me by a sixteen year old boy;
He might have GCSEs you know! a sixteen year old boy! They are like Henry’s Cat. They know everything about nothing and not too much about that.
“…the thing is you see girls everywhere with no clothes on- they are all over the telly and papers and the films, it’s just everywhere, so when you go out with a girl you feel confused about things because does she expect sex and stuff because all the girls you see on the telly and things do, how are we supposed to regard and treat girls when they just get them out all the time”.
Not round where I live you don’t! And you regard girls as friends (maybe even as “special” friends although for this 16 year old that may only exist via left-handed web-browsing), colleagues, bosses, workers… fellow humans. I’m losing the will to live. I mean it ought to be obvious really.
OK, there is a huge amount of discussion to be had around his comment and this is an issue way too big for one blog, but I have my own point to make here.
No there isn’t and you know it Nad and I know you know it because you don’t actually say anything. First year at university I did a course on Descartes and we got a style-sheet. Amongst other things it said, “Don’t pad your essay with opening lines like, ‘philosphers have been discussing this for literally ages’”.
At least 50% of journalists are women. Surely they can see how over the last three to four years things have escalated and how misogynistic the tone of the media has become?
No idea.
Katie Price - I will admit courts the media - but so do many men. Was it acceptable for a newspaper to put a picture of Myra Hindley’s head on a photograph of her body?
Now I’m lost here. If this is about regarding women as sex objects… Well, teenage lingerie models - good. A mash-up of Myra Hindley and Jordan? Well that’s the sort of thing to put me of heterosexuality for life.
And do people really think it’s good to see a picture of a four year old little girl in Grazia magazine wearing high heels and Lipstick?
No… but… a hell of a lot seems to have been “sexualised”. Small girls, lingerie models, Myra Hindley, Jordan. Call me Mr Picky but I tend to fancy attractive females who aren’t serial killers, four or who have tits like a dead-heat in a Zeppelin race.
Female journalists and picture editors - what are you doing?
The answer is probably writing about women’s literature and female issues which don’t fundamentally address the way women are viewed and treated within society.
God almighty that’s patronising. Guess what Nad? I’m a sort of journalist and I write about whatever I fancy. This is because I have fingers and not because I have testicles. I would feel the same if I had ovaries.
If the female journalists stopped writing about how awful it is that there are so few women at the top of business and instead focused on the fact that maybe, just maybe, it is the image that business has of women which is perpetrated by women in the media, and then wrote message after message to challenged those perceptions, then it may be possible things could begin to change.
Meaningless tripe.
I have applied for a ten minute rule Bill to highlight some of the issues I have raised in this blog.
That just about puts the fucking tin lid on it. The economy is circling the drain and Nad is concerned about lingerie models!
And no, I haven’t turned into a feminist overnight - heaven forbid! This is not about wearing a feminist hair shirt. It’s about knowing the difference between what is right and wrong and trying to do something about it.
Nad. I shall tell you a secret. I have never dated a woman who wasn’t a feminist (well, I guess a post-feminist). I have also never dated a woman who owned a hair shirt or who didn’t at times want to be seen as sexy yet regarded that as in no way taking away from her other skills, abilities or accomplishments. Some of us never experienced the sex war of yore. Some of us think it’s all very silly to keep banging the drum and some of us can manage not to be sexist without Nad going off on one about lingerie models looking attractive (D’oh!). Everyone has to make a living somehow. Even MPs.
Although chance would be a fine thing on that final point.
H/T The Humble Devil. Original here.
