Michael Grove and Lads Mags
Did anyone see this story earlier in the week?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4644011a19716.html
Basically Tory MP Michael Groves is attacking the lads mag market, the like of Nuts, Loaded etc.
His 'beef' seems to be the image they portray of women, and the effect this is having on atitudes towards women amongst young men. Not to mention teenage pregnanct, family beakdown etc.
What is your view on this?
Mani Hussain Wed 06/08/08 13:39
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Was this before he found out that one of his party members (a female) used to write sex stories for the same magazines?!
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Alistair Campbell used to do something similar for Forum magazine, didn't he, Octavius? Anyway, Gove was asked what he would actually do about this if in power and said nothing. He just thinks it's a jolly bad show. So do I, and I don't have any solutions either.
Which party member was that, Octavius? Not that nice Miss Widdecombe, I trust?
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What does he think of male strippers or male performers at hen nights? Do they turn women into rapists and sex fiends?
Peole like Groves have the piano legs covered up at home and need to have a bit of fun.
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They are pretty awful though.
If I ever bought one, I think I'd have to hide it inside some proper pornography in case I saw someone I knew.
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jno, I may have overstated her position, but it was Louise Bagshawe.
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I've no interest in lads mags and never have had, I pity the men who buy them.
It's just porn for shy w@nkers.
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I have never read or perused a 'lad's mag so can not speak from a position of knowledge. However, from the link you have provided, I feel forced much against my inclination to agree with a Tory MP.
Yes the portrayal of women is very shallow and objectified. I don't think these publication will encourage young men to consider women as rounded human beings, instead of being sexual objects, but I don't know whether this limited perspective on women would actually have a causal effect of family breakdown. I mean page 3 in the Sun does exactly the same to women, but no one but feminists object to that and they are ignored anyway.
A Tory MP condemning these mags will probably have the effect of increasing sales, if he had however, revealed as a respectable middle aged man he loved the mag, sales would probably plummet as no young man would want to read something that appealed to the older generation.
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Women's magazines are no better, in fact TV adverts are full of women leering at men.
It's of no consequence to me but if you're going to ban (or restrict) one style of media then you should apply it to all.
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