Apparently the Accrington Observer has received some flack from a Manchester based website, who say that the Observer's competition, for local girls to appear in the paper in their swimsuits, is a 'gross diservice to the women of Accrington'.
The editor responds by saying they've received no complaints from the paper's readers.
What do we think?
Is it just a harmless bit of fun? With today's women, in post women's lib Britain, confident enough to pose in a bikini, and not caring a damn what people say. I suppose Madonna must have a similar attitude. A feisty, strong woman, who to celebrate her forthcoming half century, has just had some more raunchy photographs taken for Vanity Fair.
Or is the paper stuck in the dark ages, where women are there to be judged like a pretty prize heifer? In the same sort of competitions that so infuriated those women in the sixties and seventies, who fought for sexual equality.
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