This article focuses on a TV show called "Pan Am" and a music video by Beyonce called "Why don't you love me."
What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
One example from the two text of the male gaze is in Beyonce's music video as she says "I got beauty I got class, I got style and I got ass." This quote shows that Beyonce has sexualilsed her self in order to be loved, as she know men objectify women. Another quote is "with a face like that you will find a husband in a couple of months" it again shows that it is about how the woman looks and not her intelligence or how she is as a person, this shows even women believe men objectify women, and they try to conform to it.
Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
In my opinion, I think there is a need for feminism as there are issues in the UK that need to be addressed, such as differences in pay, and how women are objectified. However, on the other hand I think there are just some things that happen to women that may cause that, for instance, maternity leave which has women out of work for a little less than a year. This means men would have a higher wage as they are in work longer than the women.
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 that society is somehow past needing feminism and that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed.
Nostalgia - A sentimental longing for the past often only remembering the positives of the time.
Page 3 Article
Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?
Lucy Holmes was the person that organised and started the campaign as she believed women were only seen in The Sun newspaper as sex objects, and nothing else.
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.
2) It’s soft porn in the UK’s no.1 selling family newspaper that children are exposed to.
3)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?
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!
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.
6) The Sun newspaper could be so much stronger without Page 3.
3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara
Susan believes The Sun should abolish page 3 as we are not in the 1970s any more. Also, she believes it doesn't boost up the sales of the newspaper, so it is just pointless.
Barbara said spoke about there being worse things than page 3, which means it is the least of their concern. And there are other things like level pay that is a little more important.
4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?
The campaign can be linked to post feminism because people are campaigning for the abolishment of something that makes feminism look like it still exists. Because it objectifies women, women believe the page 3 of the Sun shows that women are still inferior to men.
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?
In my opinion, i think the campaign should continue as people have a right to speak about what they want, but the Sun newspaper shouldn't get rid of page 3 models. I think this because page 3 models are not forced to be naked, but choose to be also, women say it is giving a bad image of women but, there are stories that stereotype ethnic groups, but they are still on the newspaper and in the news, meaning there are different standards for different types of people.
6) Do you agree that we are in a post-feminist state or is there still a need for feminism?
I think we still need feminism, because there are things that objectify women and stereotype them also. But on the other hand, I think there is very little oppression of women in the job world, because there are different roles done in the work place that warrant different pays. People who get jobs with higher paid salaries would have to be working for a long time, but as women, who get pregnant, take time off, taking them out of the running because they have stayed stagnant in their quest for higher pay because they have conceived a child which they look after and have to take time off work to do so.
3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara
Susan believes The Sun should abolish page 3 as we are not in the 1970s any more. Also, she believes it doesn't boost up the sales of the newspaper, so it is just pointless.
Barbara said spoke about there being worse things than page 3, which means it is the least of their concern. And there are other things like level pay that is a little more important.
4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?
The campaign can be linked to post feminism because people are campaigning for the abolishment of something that makes feminism look like it still exists. Because it objectifies women, women believe the page 3 of the Sun shows that women are still inferior to men.
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?
In my opinion, i think the campaign should continue as people have a right to speak about what they want, but the Sun newspaper shouldn't get rid of page 3 models. I think this because page 3 models are not forced to be naked, but choose to be also, women say it is giving a bad image of women but, there are stories that stereotype ethnic groups, but they are still on the newspaper and in the news, meaning there are different standards for different types of people.
6) Do you agree that we are in a post-feminist state or is there still a need for feminism?
I think we still need feminism, because there are things that objectify women and stereotype them also. But on the other hand, I think there is very little oppression of women in the job world, because there are different roles done in the work place that warrant different pays. People who get jobs with higher paid salaries would have to be working for a long time, but as women, who get pregnant, take time off, taking them out of the running because they have stayed stagnant in their quest for higher pay because they have conceived a child which they look after and have to take time off work to do so.
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