No More Page 3

1) Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?

The person who had started the no more page 3 campaign was Lucy Anne Holmes. She had started is as she thought that the page 3 was the most prominent photo of a women in the widest circulation of British newspaper is of a woman in just her pants. 

2) What are the six reasons the campaign gives for why Page 3 has to go?

1) It’s 2014! Page 3 was first introduced in the sexist 1970s. A lot has changed over the last 30+ years in our society, we think it’s time The Sun caught up…

2) It’s soft porn in the UK’s no.1 selling family newspaper that children are exposed to. Until 2003 the models were only 16 (and made to dress up in school ties and hats – seriously!) It’s never been OK. One day we’ll look back on this and think “oh my goodness, we did what?!”

3) What does it teach children? They see page after page of pictures of men in clothes doing stuff (running the country, having opinions, achieving in sport!) and what are the women doing in this society they’re learning about? Not much really, other than standing topless in their pants showing their bare breasts for men. It’s not really fair, is it?

4) Women say, do and think so many interesting and incredible things and should be celebrated for their many achievements. They are people, not things! Not ‘that’. The fact that we hear ‘look at the tits on that’ or ‘I’d do that’ is disgusting, disrespectful and objectifying. Page 3 of The Sun is the icon that perpetuates and normalises this horrible sexist ‘banter’.

5) Every single weekday for the last 44 years in The Sun newspaper the largest female image has been of a young woman (usually of a very particular age, race, physicality) showing her breasts for men, sending out a powerful message that whatever else a woman achieves, her primary role is to serve men sexually. Pretty rubbish that really.

6) The Sun newspaper could be so much stronger without Page 3. Because currently, any story they run about women’s issues such as rape, sexual abuse, harassment, domestic violence or the dangers of online porn is drowned out and contradicted by the neon flashing sign of Page 3 that says ‘shut up, girls, and get your tits out.’

3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara Ellen and Susan Boniface's contrasting opinions in the debate?

Suzie Bonofice -  This debater stated that the newspaper was outdated, She also states that in the 70s it was hard to come by images of naked women and there for back then created an audience Boniface said that the newspaper was tasteless, demeaning and unnecessary.

Barbara Ellen - This debater believes that the campaign against Page 3 should not be abandoned just because the Sun decided to blow a last-minute raspberry at supposed PC mores. Admittedly, there have been inconsistencies.

4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?

This could be linked to post-feminism as the woman that chose to go up and put themselves on page 3 are doing it willingly, this how they chose to get paid and make money. This is completely their choice and it is what they want to do as they want to earn money by doing what they love which is posing in front of a camera naked. This is completely up to them. 

5) What are your OWN views on the No More Page 3 campaign. Do you agree with the campaign's aims? Should the campaign continue?

The campaign i believe is pointless as the sun is not doing anything bad, they are well in their rights to do as they wish and at the end of the day its all about business, they do it to satisfy the readers by providing them with a picture of a beautiful woman on page 3. They do not intend on making women look bad in any way, the women chose to do this women are not being forced into posing naked in front of a camera.  



6) Do you agree that we are in a post-feminist state or is there still a need for feminism?

Post feminism will still be needed as this page 3 is not the problem, what the problem is is that females to get underpaid and are less likely to get a good job when up against men as men would be chosen most of the times apart from the unlucky few. There is also inequality out on the streets where men treat women differently. So feminism is needed and I believe will get no where. This is a mans world and frankly it'll stay that way for many more years to come. 

Media Magazine reading

1) Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media (MM40, page 64 - ourMedia Magazine archive is here).

2) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
The two texts that the article is focused on is Pan Am and Beyonce.

3) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
One of Beyonce's examples is where she welcomes the male gaze through being the housewife in the video, also along with this she wore as they described 'sexy outfits'. This does in fact welcome the male gaze through wearing tight revealing clothings, this attracts the men and is there for that purpose. For Pan Am 'the humiliating girdle check'. This would also welcome the male gaze as it is something that most women would have worn and something that would not have been seen as much, making it sexual for the men as it shapes their bodies making them seem sexier in a way and more attractive.  

4) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
I believe that there is still need for feminism as these two texts does not solve everything, people in society targeting woman, are still not treated equally as men. One of the examples is that women do in fact get paid less than a man, even if it is the exact same job that requires the same type of education and qualifications.

5) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.

Feminism - a movement aimed at defining, establishing, and defending women's rights and equality to men. 

Post - feminism - an ideology in culture and society is somehow past needing feminism and that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed. 

Third wave feminism - was a movement that redefined and encouraged women to be dominant and sexually assertive. 

Patriarchy - an ideology that places men in a dominant position over women. 

Selfie surgery? Women now want to look just like their filtered Instagram photos

A new trend has emerged on the plastic surgery scene. Magazine clippings are long gone, and woman are now using their Instagram-filtered selfies to show their surgeons exactly how they would like to be transformed.“This is a huge trend,“ surgeon Dr. Elie Levine told the New York Daily News. “People are bringing in pictures of themselves taken at a favorite angle or filtered, and saying they want to look like that.” The ‘selfie’ phenomenon has really taken off, and one of the biggest fans of the craze is the glamorous Kim Kardashian.

• People want surgery to look the same as their selfies
• Dr's getting more demand for plastic surgey 
• Article says that this could have been influenced by Kim Kardashian

http://www.independent.ie/style/beauty/body/selfie-surgery-women-now-want-to-look-just-like-their-filtered-instagram-photos-30973941.html

Pittsburgh mall shooting suspect identified from Instagram post

The suspected gunman in a suburban Pittsburgh mall shooting handed investigators a vital clue when he posted a photo of himself on Instagram just hours before he opened fire in a shopping center, wounding three, authorities said Tarod Thornhill, 17, was wearing the same clothes in the social media post as the shooter captured on surveillance camera footage of the chaotic attack at the Monroeville Mall. The teen pulled a pistol on Saturday and fired wildly in the busy shopping center, striking a rival along with a man and woman walking past with a child, authorities said.

• Young man opened fire at a shopping centre
• Caought on camera but nor identifies
• Moments later suspect uploaded photo and matched with same clothes from cctv

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pittsburgh-mall-shooting-suspect-identified-instagram-p-article-1.2107459

Twitter CEO: We suck at dealing with trolls and abuse

Twitter’s chief executive has acknowledged that the company “sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform, and we’ve sucked at it for years”, in a leaked memo.In the memo, obtained on thursday by the verge, Costolo writes: “I’m frankly ashamed of how poorly we’ve dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It’s absurd. There’s no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It’s nobody else’s fault but mine, and it’s embarrassing.”

• CEO of Twitter admits to the lack of security they have
• CEO admits that they are bad at taking down the Trolls
• CEO admits to being ashamed 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/05/twitter-ceo-we-suck-dealing-with-trolls-abuse

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donates $75 million to San Francisco hospital

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are reportedly  donating $75 million to a San Francisco hospital – believed to be the largest sum given to a public hospital by an individual. The Facbook founder and CEO is donating the money to the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to help fund critical equipment and technology for the public hospital’s new emergency room. 

• zuckerberg donates 75million to hospital
• The biggest amount ever donate by one person
• Donated and available to all people

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-donates-75m-to-san-francisco-hospital-10031027.html

Videos

1.

Alvorado - alvarado consists of 4 things which he things apply in most scenes which are 4 racial representations. Dangerous, Pitty, Humorous and also Exotic. 

Franz Fanon - 

• Primitivize
• Infrantalise 
• Decivillised 
• Essentialized 

Saids had written a book all about orientalism. He said that the east and the west were very different. He argues that the west was more dangerous and much more uncivilised than the east was. 

2. 

The video had a negative representation on muslims as they were being abused, this was shown through the society that they live in graffiting on the grills of their shop as they hated and disliked the pakis in the community. The female also did not like herself for who she was so then decided to hide that by changing her clothing so she could blend in with society. 

This video here shows how the people here are all pittied as they are unable to to live any longer with the current resources they have. They use children as they are all vulnerable and  their parents are unable to feed them as there is no food or money which means they will probably starve to death.

This video here is humourous as we can see that will smith and some other black people all help to make the video as humourous as it is. This is one of aldos theories. We see here that the character will is getting beaten up and then being sent to belair where he will spend most of his time. This is all a little story.

Here we see these two who are very dangerous as they are both highly trained in martial arts. This shows how dangerous they are and what they are able to do, they are both prisoners locked up for crimes they have committed. Most of the people here are eastern european.

Here we see loads of females that are being how avarado explains it being exotic, here we see the females performing and shaking their bums, this is exotic as it is not seen everyday and explicit and very sexual appealing to the make audience.

Here we see a society where there are two gangs formed where they are all taking part in a fight against one another, we see here that the people are all decivilised in a way as they are all acting like animals and not doing the right thing.

Here we have the UK riots where a whole load of young teenagers are all premitivised as we see them all gang up and tear down society making people scared to be walking down streets which they shouldnt be.

Here in this scene we see that the characters which are the stepbrothers, are infintalised as they are in this scene acting like children. They begin to play with their food for example purposely squeezing the ketchup bottle. They also start telling lies by using their imagination and talking about events that have not occured.

Here we see president obama who is the first president of America. Here we see that he is putting on a white mask as for him to get to where he is at he had to of spoken in a certain way and also done things a certain way. He would not have gotten the job through being who he was for example talking slang and being informal.

Here we see a variety of different things, from tyrone being dangerous and humorous at the same time as well as dangerous. To the audience made to feel pitted for the people that are getting robbed by him. This is all stereotypical and backs up alvorados theory.

Post Colonialism

Films: Adulthood, Kidulthood, Attack the block, Ill Manors, Skank, Sket.

Tv Shows: Citizen Khan, Goodness gracious me, Luther, Line of duty.

Online TV shows: brother with no game, meet the adebanjos, brothers with no game.

We are able to apply the theories of Fannon and Alvarados to the tight jeans short movie. Alvorado has in his theory four sections of which are, Pitty, Exotic, Dangerous and Humorous. This is because only some of the theories apply and fit in with this short clip. One of the theories were of Humour, this was clearly present in the movie as we saw that that characters were making funny jokes of people and themselves. They were having fun and laughing as well as making the audience laugh along with them. They made jokes of other peoples culture and their own culture. They also went against stereo types of young black people that hang around round the ends and estates. We saw that even though they had been staring at people whilst they were walking past them they did not react in any of the was black people are stereotyped, which is dangerous. This goes against black people being dangerous as they were not acting in a dangerous way, all they did was look and talk about the people after they had walked away into the distance. This also backs up being exotic, this was due to the characters talking about how black people all have big penises, this is exotic as they were proud of it and it is sexual.  This also goes against it as the characters were not pitied in the text.

The next text was a film called "Gone Too Far". This does back up alvaradoes theory as many stereotypes were used in this film. This is all about how a black man from Nigeria comes to England and plans on living here. There was humour present as this was a comedy, the director being black had deliberately endorsed Nigerian stereotypes to make people laugh. This was because the brother came to England with his culture and they way they speak with his accent and everything else. They were also shown as not being dangerous as as there were no fight scenes backing up alvaradoes theory of them being stereotyped. Franco's theory states that this Nigerian is Primitvized as he is unknown to the England culture. Francos theory states that this Nigerian is being primitivized, this is because they are new to England and are not familiar and sure with the English British culture, They were also initialised due to the Nigerian man acting idiotic and immature when it came to anything that he did, for example he started singing in the chicken shop which isn't a normal thing you'd see in public due to him not knowing the English culture .