Cambridge ‘Page 3’ girls spark row

PTI / Oct 30, 2009, 01:03 IST

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The online ‘redtop’ launched this year has received 80,000 hits in its first week, but it has sparked a row with complaints being filed that ‘semi-naked women.

LONDON: A row has erupted at Cambridge University after its first tabloid showed off its ��Page 3�� girls, fuelling demands that scantily clad students on ��The Tab�� be covered up.
The online ��redtop�� launched this year has received 80,000 hits in its first week, but it has sparked a row with complaints being filed that ��semi-naked women in provocative positions are being shoved in freshers�� faces��.
Natalie Szarek, the university��s student union women��s officer, demanded that the ��Page 3�� girls should be removed because they ��reproduce and reinforce harmful attitudes towards women��. ��We can do better as a university,�� she was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph on Thursday.
Taymoor Atighetchi, a third-year student at Trinity College and one of the tabloid��s three co-founders who paid ��500 each to launch the website, defended The Tab. ��There��s a huge amount of intellectual snobbery around, mainly from those who haven��t read the site,�� he said, adding ��We do not think what we are doing is sexist.��

The female photographer who took the ��Totty�� photos for the university��s tabloid also defended the website.
��Surely the fact that they are educated and bright women, and still chose to partake in Tab Totty proves that ��page three�� and ��glamour girls�� are not just women who have no other choice but to turn to modelling,�� she said. The website has also come into conflict with Cambridge��s traditional old student newspapers, Varsity and The Cambridge Student, the Telegraph report said.

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