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There seemed to be something both nasty and immature in this bait-and-switch. The tabloid was acknowledging that these spreads had become controversial and that people now found them to be boorish, misogynist, or simply lame—and the editors were sending those people a very obvious message: Fuck you."In the Sun's childish taunting of any woman who expressed alignment with the No More Page 3 campaign's arguments, the newspaper has eclipsed the initial debate surrounding whether it should exist or not almost entirely," VICE's Eleanor Morgan wrote yesterday. "That is what has happened today. No woman I know was talking about whether Page 3 should exist this morning—they were talking about a national newspaper provoking a reaction against the very idea of women having opinions."Tomorrow's — The Sun (@TheSunNewspaper)January 21, 2015
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