Models who used to feature their topless bodies on "Page 3" of The Sun (UK) every day are fighting back against the "comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters" who they say forced the British paper to end the practice of featuring naked girls in its pages, the Washington Free Beacon has learned after extensive Internet browsing.
The models say they were empowered by the magazine spreads and that it is not feminism to tell other women what they can or cannot do, according to a report in the Telegraph.
Model Rhian Sugden, 28, criticised at the move, suggesting it was "only a matter of time" before everything they did was dictated by such people.
Former glamour model Jodie Marsh insisted that "telling girls they shouldn't do Page 3 is not being a feminist."
She said she "loved" posing for Page 3 and that it made her feel powerful and earned her good money.
Marsh let her feelings on true feminism be known on Twitter.
I am very much a feminist. I believe women can do it all and have it all. Women who slag off other women are just jealous & insecure...
— Jodie Marsh (@JodieMarsh) January 20, 2015
The real oppression to women is in places where women aren't allowed to drive and are made to (or brainwashed into wanting to) wear a burka — Jodie Marsh (@JodieMarsh) January 20, 2015
As a truly free woman, Marsh does what she wants, when she wants.
For example, earlier this month she traveled to "Boobados," and took a lot of pictures.
Boobados 😉 pic.twitter.com/4THvqO2zAe — Jodie Marsh (@JodieMarsh) January 8, 2015
She also sometimes dresses up like a cat and talks about virgins.
Half an hour to go until I talk about sex and virginity!!! #JodieMarshOnVirgins on @tlc_uk at 10pm 🙂 x x x pic.twitter.com/SvxjadnNEj — Jodie Marsh (@JodieMarsh) November 4, 2014
Marsh is not alone in her fight. Rhian Sugden says that this is just the beginning and that soon the man haters will dictate everything women are allowed to do.
It's only a matter of time before everything we do will be dictated by comfy shoe wearing... No bra wearing... man haters #page3 — Rhian Sugden (@Rhianmarie) January 20, 2015
Sugden, some experts would say, is even more talented than Marsh. Here, she "took selfie to a whole other level."
Sugden also has used her spreads in The Sun to promote women's health.
On the third page of @TheSunNW today. All for #CheckEmTuesday - Have you checked yours?! pic.twitter.com/pnrtqhHBTJ
— Rhian Sugden (@Rhianmarie) October 7, 2014
She also loves to tan.
The Sun, however, by caving to the demands of the so-called "feminists," is denying the full extent of that tan to its millions of readers in Britain and around the world.
Censorship is wrong. Jodie and Rhian deserve better.