Murdoch Meltdown

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Again, Merc, it's about context. In a discussion where it's been mentioned that the editors of the tabloid papers routinely push their journalists to use a particular set of words to describe women in the news (not just the Page 3 girls, btw, any woman who appears in a news story is subject to this particular lexicon) alongside a comment about the dismissive nature of the 'page 3 girl' as she appears in the paper, you referred to those women as 'tarts' and dismissed any notion that such things are in anyway problematic.

Maybe, just maybe it's because I don't read the paper, so I don't know what you are talking about in that context and so it just didn't matter to me. Which is probably why I was so flippant in my statement. It was not a statement about women in general, or my feelings about people who show their tits in a tabloid. And on top of that, as I stated to BV, I did not ever know the term "tart" to be one on par with "whore". Doesn't mean that me now and it didn't mean that before I made my comment.

The NSFW thread is a 'room' in an internet community where people, men and women, can show off their tackle and bits for exhibitionist purposes. That is a whole other kettle of fish, from women's tits framing the news for the male readership.

Then that is a double standard and hipocritical, if I follow the comments made to me to be the standard. Which I disagree with btw....