Saturday, 24 January 2015

Clever Dicks?

It is completely ridiculous to suggest that the only way to get men to read about politics or football is to include a photograph of a topless woman. Or is that only working-class men, in the heavily public school world of the redtop press?
The only people to have come out of this week well have been the articulate Page 3 models such as Chloe Goodman and Laura Lacole. Why has it taken Page 3 to discover them? Or Katie Price, who is now a forthright Sun on Sunday columnist?
I am going to regret this, Brendan, but if you feel this strongly, then how about two new features, perhaps on different sites in order to avoid subjecting spiked to filters? One could be called Brains with Breasts, and the other, oh, I don't know, Clever Dicks. Respectively featuring women and men.
As long as a thousand-word essay on an economic, social, cultural or political theme were up to par, then it would be published alongside one or more nude photographs of its author. Or ought that to be the other way around?

You could usefully start with Chloe Goodman, Laura Lacole and, since she would have been the same school year as I was and since she has borne five children, the decidedly non-stereotypical Katie Price.

4 comments:

  1. There are wind-up merchants, and then there is David Lindsay. Sir, I salute you.

    That said, I wouldn't be surprised if spiked did this and I'd bet good money on the Sun doing novelty Page 3 items featuring men, older women, BAME woman, disabled women and so on to troll its critics even more.

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    1. Interesting choice of words there.

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    2. Does he know he is visiting a mixed-race, disabled man's site?

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