Many of the readers are from poorer social backgrounds where the education systym has failed and are used to accepting discrimination as part of their daily lives. When they read 'the sun' they are immediatley shown indecent, mysogynistic images.
This then becomes acceptable in society as womens bodies are thrown around in the tabloids but the reality has become a taboo. This is especially true for the younger generation because they are particularly easily influenced especially where there is financial hardship and a sense of hopelessness. This leads to sexism and female subserveience being an accepted and unquestioned part of every day life in the UK.
Women may feel inadaquete and worthless because they do not live up to that ideal. 'The sun' regularly critisices glamour models yet they continue publishing images that exploit women.
'The sun' contributes to the objectification of women and inequality in society as it displays these pornographic, mysogynistic images on a daily basis. The models are not shown to have any intellect, emotions or personality and are shown to exist only for the pleausure of men.
The definition of pornography (as defined by Dictionary.com) is:
'Obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit'.
Does an image primarily used to promote dicrimination and mysogyny qualify for this description? Most feminists and their supporters will say 'yes', it does as it has been previously criticised by such people. However 'the sun' refuses to listen becuase it is a business interested soley in profit. I have attempted to contact 'the sun' although they have not replied.
Why should this blatant discrimination be allowed to exist in a modern supposedly progressive society? What I suggest is boycott and petition of 'the sun' until they discontinue 'page 3' or reclassify themselves as a gossip magazine.