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The chairman of Tesco said Britain's biggest supermarket chain will consider taking lads' mags off its shelves, after revealing that reading one had left him startled . Richard Broadbent said:

I bought one of these lads mags recently. I was startled at what I saw. But I think we should be thoughtful in our response. I don't immediately know what the answer should be. But I am willing to look at changes.

The chairman of the country's largest retailer was responding to a female shareholder at its annual meeting. She asked for the titles to be removed from stores because they were offensive to women.

The annual general meeting saw a small demonstration from organisations wanting to ban lads' mags. UK Feminsta and Object are coordinating the miserable campaign under the banner: Lose the Lad's Mags.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has written to the House of Commons authorities asking for The Sun newspaper to be banned from the palace of Westminster. Lucas demanded that it be removed from shops in parliament until it bins its Page Three section which features half naked women:

I do not think that a newspaper that persists in carrying images which are degrading to women should be widely available across the parliamentary estate

I am sure you will be aware that there is a strong link between the portrayal of women as sexual objects with attitudes that underpin violence and discrimination against women and girls.

Page Three should be consigned to the rubbish bin where it belongs.

Update: Early Day Motion

23rd June 2013. See  EDM from  parliament.uk

In fact Caroline Lucas went on to table an Early Day Motion:

EDM 253: No More Page 3 Campaign

That this House is concerned about the strong link between the portrayal of women as sexual objects and attitudes that underpin violence and discrimination against women and girls;

• notes that this has been demonstrated by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and in a Government-commissioned Sexualisation of Young People Review;
• applauds the work of the No More Page 3 campaign;observes that The Sun newspaper is available across the parliamentary estate in at least eight locations;
• further notes that if someone is looking at page 3 of The Sun others can be subjected to it whether they like it or not; and
• calls on the House of Commons Administration Committee to take the necessary steps to prevent the House stocking The Sun newspaper until it removes the Page 3 feature.

The motion has received 13 signatures so far

Name	Party	Constituency
Campbell, Ronnie	Labour Party	Blyth Valley
Caton, Martin	Labour Party	Gower
Champion, Sarah	Labour Party	Rotherham
Clark, Katy	Labour Party	North Ayrshire and Arran
Corbyn, Jeremy	Labour Party	Islington North
Dobbin, Jim	Labour Party	Heywood and Middleton
Flynn, Paul	Labour Party	Newport West
Lucas, Caroline	Green Party	Brighton Pavilion
McDonnell, John	Labour Party	Hayes and Harlington
Meale, Alan	Labour Party	Mansfield
Riordan, Linda	Labour Party	Halifax
Sanders, Adrian	Liberal Democrats	Torbay
Vaz, Valerie	Labour Party	Walsall South

A High Court challenge to a decision that has allowed lap dancing at a Leamington nightclub has been dropped.

The Hindu Religious Association of Leamington and Warwick was due to be heard at a hearing at High Court in its challenge of Warwick District Council's granting of a sexual entertainment licence to Shades in High Street.

The council has agreed to contribute towards the cost of the claim.

It seems that the decision was related to funding and the high risk that they would lose their case and their money. Yash Pal Tara of the association said:

Companies such as Shades can afford specialist legal advice and representation which is beyond the reach of local people. We feel vindicated that we were granted permission for a judicial review, but on balance, there are better ways to oppose Shades and significant taxpayers' money would be spent on this case. We did not want that.

Cllr Michael Coker, responsible for policy on community protection, said:

It is appropriate that the parties should share the costs to prevent considerable amounts of public time and money being spent on a hearing in the High Court.

Miserablist campaigners from Alcohol Concern claim that alcohol advertising should be banned at music and sports events.

Alcohol Concern said that many young people recognised more alcohol brands than those of ice cream or cake products. It is calling for new rules on what alcohol adverts can mention and it also wants them banned in film trailers rated 15 or lower.

Alcohol Concern's report was based on research by its Youth Alcohol Advertising Council (YAAC) - a group of young people in England and Wales who review alcohol advertising and who whinge to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) when they discover content they deem to be irresponsible.

The report urged the ASA to operate in a more proactive way , instead of depending on complaints from the public before looking into advertising code breaches. The ASA should be able to levy meaningful sanctions including fines for serious non-compliance, it added.

In a statement, the ASA said:

It was not unheard of for an anti-alcohol lobby group to call for further restrictions on advertising. The ASA will continue to take a proportionate approach, regulating effectively alcohol ads across media, including online, against strict rules that are designed to protect young people.

The Department of Health's own figures show, encouragingly, that fewer young people are drinking.

The Bath Fringe Festival has made a grovelling apology over an art installation which featured film of a man masturbating.

The film was shown as part of a public exhibition at The Officers Club in Stall Street. The film has now been pulled.

  Ian Dore, who visited the gallery at the weekend with his 17-year-old niece, whinged that the hardcore pornographic film was absolutely shocking :

Anybody could have walked in and seen it and there were children there. It was absolutely shocking.

My niece was appalled and clearly upset, I can't speak for the others in the gallery as they had walked out.

Simon Whitby, a spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police, said officers had visited the art gallery after receiving a complaint:

We concluded that there was no offence being committed, and spoke to the gallery curator about the possibility of installing signs and perhaps a barrier so that members of the public would know about the DVD content before they viewed it.

We understand that the DVD exhibit was removed.

The video exhibit was created by four artists who curated clips from the internet which was played on a loop.

Gender extremists seem to be targeting an extension the Dangerous Pictures Act to include images of simulated rape (as per the Scottish version). Interesting when discussing the concept of 'educating' children about pornography it is taken as read that the 'education' will be moralising propaganda against porn. It never seems to be discussed what such 'education' should entail.

Responding to the publication of a new report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner on young people and pornography, Holly Dustin, Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition & Fiona Elvines of Rape Crisis South London said:

There should be concern at the highest levels of government that boys are accessing violent and sadistic pornography, and that it is influencing their behaviour and attitudes. Sexual violence towards women and girls is rarely out of the headlines and we know from our own research that sexual harassment and unwanted sexual touching is commonplace amongst young people. This does not happen in a vacuum, rather our sexist culture and media provides a conducive context for abuse to occur.

This report provides further strong evidence of the need for schools to be required to teach young people about sexual consent, and how to deal with pornographic and violent imagery they see online, in music videos, adverts or elsewhere.

Furthermore, we believe that the government must look at legislation on extreme pornography and close a loophole that allows the lawful possession of simulated images of rape pornography, similar to that viewed by Stuart Hazell.

Farmer Alan Graham got noticed by the tabloid press when he turfed Rihanna off his land for being sexy in a music video. The final edit of Rihanna's video for We Found Love featured sexy images and references to drug use and violence.

Graham and his wife were inspired to start a campaign against sexy music videos. He lives in a dream world where musicians are successful for their musical talent, and points to Adele as an example of someone who has achieved success without the kind of raunchy images and semi-nudity. Graham claims the culture of raunchy music videos points to a lack of respect for women . Graham spouted:

It certainly wasn't appropriate for children. I don't believe that it's good for anybody to watch from my point of view, but this stuff is readily available to children.

You would think there was a competition between the performers to see who could be the most raunchy.

Anybody can attract attention by taking their clothes off. Ideally a performance of any sort should be something that a man and his wife and children can go to together and not feel embarrassed.

In a documentary, Rihanna's Farmer , aired on BBC One Northern Ireland on Monday, he whinged to figures from across the pop music industry, hoping for support for his unrealistic views.

A group of young people from Liverpool visited the Ofcom headquarters in London to deliver 10,000 postcards from people calling for a ban on TV smoking.

SmokeOff, promoted by D-MYST, is a campaign which targets Ofcom asking them to ban smoking on television.

Ofcom rules already state:

Smoking must not be condoned, encouraged or glamourised in programmes likely to be widely seen or heard by under-18s unless there is editorial justification.

Yet many programmes like Coronation Street and Eastenders regularly contain smoking scenes, at times when young people are watching.

D-MYST spokesperson Lilly Mae Paulucci, 15, said:

When programmes like The Simpsons and Friends show people smoking, it encourages young people to start. We believe the media should stop showing tobacco images in TV programmes viewed by under-18s before the watershed.

We want to make sure that all future pre-watershed programmes are smokefree and we're really pleased with the support we've received so far.

Themed university parties and pub crawls with titles such as geeks and sluts or rappers and slappers could soon be banned if PC gender extremists get their way.

At next week's National Union of Students annual conference, a motion will target the lads' culture particularly the behaviour of university sports teams. Un PC fun seekers should face disciplinary action, claim union members, who will be meeting in Sheffield to debate the horrific normalisation of sexist attitudes and sexual pressure on female students.

The motion, reported by The Times, also calls for the promotional companies which organise the events to be vetted so they comply with rules that ensure a safe space for women. Although the vote if carried will not be binding on student unions, it is expected to pressurise them into falling into line.

The move follows a report by NUS PC campaigners claiming widespread sexist behaviour by heavy-drinking male students who indulge in a pack culture.

Offsite Article: Prudes, Objects and Lads

7th April 2013. See  article from  blogs.telegraph.co.uk by Jack Rivlin

The prudes of the National Union of Students hate boozy, popular lads. So what do they do? Smear them as rapists

Offsite Comment: The NUS's prissy war on lad culture

13th April 2013. See  article from  spiked-online.com

Not content with trying to control what students say, the NUS wants to police how they play, too.

...Read the full article

SIR -- We want to see an immediate end to all advertising aimed at children of primary school age and younger. We have sleepwalked into a situation where the advertising industry, worth £12 billion a year in Britain alone, is allowed to turn techniques designed to manipulate adult emotions and desires on to children as young as two or three. This is wrong.

Almost all children under 11 depend on their parents for money. So advertising makes heavy use of "pester power", as it is more effective than targeting parents directly. Yet a civilised society should require advertisers to sell to parents, not to children. When children are learning about the cost of material things, and about managing small quantities of money, they should be free to do so without the pressures put on them by advertising.

As things stand, we are in danger of turning out young consumers rather than young citizens -- people who define themselves more by what they buy than by what they can contribute to society. Children should be free to channel their energies into forming friendships, discovering their talents and unleashing their imaginations; things that cost little but whose value is immeasurable.

Bans on advertising aimed at young children are already working in places such as Sweden, Quebec and Greece. It's time for a similar ban here.

• Jonathan Kent, Co-founder, Leave Our Kids Alone
• Rupert Read, Co-Founder, Leave Our Kids Alone
• Bel Mooney, Writer
• George Monbiot, Author, journalist and campaigner
  Natalie Bennett, Leader, Green Party of England and Wales
• Caroline Lucas, Green MP
• Sue Palmer, Author, 'Toxic Childhood'
• Claude Knights FRSA, Director of Kidscape
• Pippa Smith, Co Chairman, Safermedia
• Miranda Suit , Co Chairman, Safermedia

And many others

Comment: I Have No Time For Fucking Self Serving Middle Class Authoritarians Posing As Liberals

17th April 2013. See  article from  mediasnoops2.wordpress.com

Kirsty Hopley, 'sickened' by children seeing internet porn and other sexual images in public, has launched a Child Eyes campaign and a petition to keep such imagery out of public places.

Since launching an online petition she has achieved about 6000 signatures.

Hopley wants the Government to make it illegal to display pornography and sexualised images in public places where children are allowed. She also wants ministers to provide support for parents to protect their children from hardcore internet porn and violent games. She said:

You can't just go into a shop and ask for something to be moved, they look at you like you're crazy. The main thing is for people to sign the petition but also for local retailers to have a look around their shops and see if there is anything a child can see and then move it. I'm not saying people shouldn't buy but not for children to be exposed to it every time you go for milk.