The Girl Guides Association was on the Today programme this morning (BBC Radio 4) talking about their opposition to Page 3 of the Sun. For anyone not in the UK, one of our national newspapers has printed a photo of a nearly nude young lady on their page 3 every day since - well, pretty much forever, actually. Which is a lot of naked young ladies.
Every now and then, a few women get together to say they don't like it, but the Sun carries on regardless.
There are lots of other good reasons for not buying the Sun - this is just one of them.
The campaign reminded me of the excellent blog by Jim C Hines, though.
Occasionally, he pokes fun at the improbable poses of young ladies on SF book covers by attempting to re-create them with himself as the model. It's very funny, and it also makes the serious point that the covers are sexist and stupid.
A little while ago, he got a group of SF writers together to pose together. The event was ConFusion, and the group pose has raised over $15,000 for the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation. Details are here:
http://www.jimchines.com/2013/01/group-cover-pose-reveal/
(Sorry I can't manage links, but copy and paste will get you there!)
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