Current porn related online activism
Remove Page 3 from our most popular newspaper ‘The Sun’
The Prime Minister has responded to the scandal and corruption exposed at News International by launching an inquiry into the culture and ethics of the UK press.
The Turn Your Back On Page 3 campaign demands that The Sun’s Page 3 is acknowledged in this inquiry and removed from our most popular newspaper immediately.
As a cultural icon, Page 3 symbolises not only the acceptance and normalisation of pornography within our daily newspapers but the sexual objectification of women and girls that permeates our culture in general – and thus, ultimately, symbolises and contributes to our unequal status.
The death of sexism is a battle not yet won in this country and the proliferation of this image of women and girls within our mainstream press is perpetuating and fueling it by, at best, encouraging and endorsing negative attitudes towards us and within us, and at worst, acts of violence committed against us. All of which grossly limit our choices, stall our progress and violate our human rights.
We demand that the government addresses the subject of Page 3 today and by doing so demonstrates to society that it is serious about stamping out sexism once and for all. We cannot waste any more time and we will not wait any longer. The government either values and respects the female half of humanity or it doesn’t, and as a start the removal of Page 3 from our every day lives, because of its cultural significance, would be a momentus step in the right direction in proving to society that is does.
Together, we must work to eradicate all forms of sexism in order for women to become politically, socially, economically and personally equal to men. We cannot be a progressive and prosperous society otherwise.
Turn Your Back On Page 3.
Say NO to sexism.
Demand a socially responsible media.
DEMAND EQUALITY.
Related to the above petition…
OBJECT’s MEDIA CHARTERRecent events have yet again exposed the total and profound lack of social responsibility of our press. The Prime Minister is now calling for an inquiry into the ‘culture and ethics’ of the press.
We now have a unique opportunity to finally make sure Page 3 and all newspaper porn is seen as incompatible with a responsible press
Let’s get porn out of our papers!
Because of OBJECT’s work in 2006 challenging the normalising of pornography in the press, Parliament has already voted through the first reading of a Bill calling for a socially responsible, gender aware, independently regulated press.
It’s time to resurrect this Bill.
Find a copy of the charter here.
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