Kate Moss models topless on page 3

[blp]

For non-Brits, 'page 3' is an institution in Rupert Murdoch's avowedly rightwing tabloid The Sun, always carrying a picture of a topless woman. Today's nearly nude 'hot tottie' is the now almost completely ubiquitous Kate Moss, crossing the usually great divide between fashion modelling and 'glamour' modelling (modelling expressly for titillation). In many ways, Moss is such a doyenne of hip suavity while the Sun is so redolent of Brits at their ugliest and stupidest that this comes across as an arch gesture of ironic cool. Still, rather as such gestures should be, it's troublingly blurry in its significance - or lack thereof. Even though Moss doesn't really interest me at all, I feel slightly sick.

[Jezebel]

Right wing and topless women? That just strikes me as a contradiction. What sorts of women do they usually feature that Moss is an anomaly?

On a completely different note, I love reading your posts, Blp. I feel like I gain a few IQ points reading all of those 'sophisticated' words :p

[beer good]

And the fallout of the ironic generation just keeps coming.

Jezebel: http://page3.com/ (not safe for work, but since you asked...)

[Jezebel]

Thanks Beer Good, but I actually am at work, so I won't be looking at that now :)

[blp]

Right wing and topless women? That just strikes me as a contradiction. What sorts of women do they usually feature that Moss is an anomaly?

On a completely different note, I love reading your posts, Blp. I feel like I gain a few IQ points reading all of those 'sophisticated' words :p

Too kind. Sophisticated words? Wait'll I start trying to work through my current haphazard attempts to understand Kant. Get ready for a little Copernican transcendental idealism.

Don't know how to explain it, but it's not a contradiction at all - just good old fashioned, brazen sexism and if you don't like it, hey, you need to lighten up, mate. (The Sun - we love it - as the cheerfully conformist advertising has it). **heads-up**: I'm being a little ironic myself now.

Thanks for the visual ref, beer good. Was wondering vaguely whether it was online, but then, I am at work.

I think the usual page 3 fodder are a little less angular and more curvy. Their breasts are usualy bigger.

[blp]

Currently enjoying many short works by Slavoj Zizek online, courtesy of an extensive list of links in his wikipedia entry. The following seems particularly salient:

'In human society, the political is the encompassing structuring principle, so that every neutralization of some partial content as "non-political" is a political gesture par excellence.'

[Jezebel]

Their breasts are usually bigger isn't saying much, considering Moss doesn't really seem to have much in that area :p I guess "brazen sexism" does align with the right...I usually think of "religious" as synonymous with "right-wing" though.

[blp]

There's a lot less of that religious right-wingism here. A lot less.

[Marlow]

When I saw the title, i thought this was one of those dirty spam messages. :)

[Jezebel]

There's a lot less of that religious right-wingism here. A lot less.
That sounds nice :) Wish that would rub off over here.

[Durga]

When I saw the title, i thought this was one of those dirty spam messages. :)
I thought the same but looks like discusion is really hot :p