{"id":644,"date":"2007-09-07T07:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=644"},"modified":"2007-09-07T07:23:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T06:23:29","slug":"not-exactly-page-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly Page Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Britain, you&#8217;ll need no explanation for the reference to Page Three. However, if you live outside the UK (as many of my readers do), some explanation will be necessary. We have a Right-wing, populist, mass-circulation daily newspaper called &#8220;The Sun&#8221; which is infamous for featuring each day on its third page a photograph of a topless young woman. I think you get the picture but, if you need further guidance and are not overly sensitive, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.page3.com\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow naturally I don&#8217;t buy or read &#8220;The Sun&#8221; on political grounds, but my wife does purchase each week a magazine called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrylife.co.uk\/\">&#8220;Country Life&#8221;<\/a>. This magazine bills itself as &#8220;the essential weekly read for those who are passionate about the British countryside, fine art, gardening and property&#8221;. In this week&#8217;s issue &#8211; which is, I grant you, a special issue &#8211; there are 120 pages of properties for sale worth more than \u00a3200 million.<br \/>\nSo, what has &#8220;Country Life&#8221; got to do with &#8220;The Sun&#8221;? Well, &#8220;Country Life&#8221; has its own version of the Page Three girls. It comes well into the magazine after all the property advertisements and before the list of contents and editorial. Naturally the girls here are fully clothed, but they are the same sort of age and equally attractive.<br \/>\nSo, wha&#8217;s the problem? Let me illustrate with this week&#8217;s &#8220;Country Life pin-up and I quote: &#8220;The Honourable India Windsor-Clive. India, who celebrated her19th birthday on Monday, is the daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Windsor of Oakly Park, Ludlow, Shropshire. Educated at Heathfield and Stow, she will spent her gap year travelling and doing a cookery course at Ballymaloe, before reading history of art at university.&#8221;<br \/>\nThese elitist &#8220;Country Life&#8221; women rarely have a &#8216;normal&#8217; name or live in a &#8216;normal&#8217; home; they never seem to have gone to  state schools; and, if they are not doing some arty university course, they are pursuing a career with horses. They are just so unrepresentative of the young women of Britain.<br \/>\nI really wonder which is more offensive: the nudity of&#8221;The Sun&#8221; or the elitism of &#8220;Country Life? Thanks for letting me get that off my chest (so to speak).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Britain, you&#8217;ll need no explanation for the reference to Page Three. However, if you live outside the UK (as many of my readers do), some explanation will be necessary. We have a Right-wing, populist, mass-circulation daily newspaper called &#8220;The Sun&#8221; which is infamous for featuring each day on its third page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}