Where Mary Whitehouse led, the feminists follow
by Laura Perrins, TCW:
IT IS time to admit that Mary Whitehouse was correct: some images have to be banned to prevent moral degradation and civilisation collapsing into one large, odious cesspit.
In her time, Mary Whitehouse was just a Christian woman and therefore had to be ridiculed and dismissed during her great campaign because, well, the whole thing was such an embarrassment. If Mary had been a young feminist I sense she would have had a much fairer hearing.
These days you don’t need Mary Whitehouse when you have the all-powerful Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which is willing to ban any advertisement that overly sexualises and objectifies women. Preach it, sisters.
The ASA has banned an advert for the online fashion retailer Missguided on the grounds that it ‘objectifies’ women. The poster, seen on railway platforms in November, featured a sultry model posing in black sheer tights and an open black blazer while topless underneath. Three parents complained to the ASA that it was ‘overly sexualised’ and ‘objectified women’.
In response, Missguided said it ‘strongly contested’ claims that the poster objectified women. Sure, Missguided would have us believe that the focus was clearly on this young woman’s personality and educational and sporting achievements and not her ‘come hither’ eyes.
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