The No More Page 3 campaigners will be pleased to know that their activities have given heart to women in Germany who are trying to persuade the country’s biggest newspaper to stop publishing topless pictures.
Sophia Becker and her friend Kristina Lunz launched a campaign called Stop Bild Sexism to fight sexualised images of women in Bild, the daily paper with a 2.6m sale, reports The Local.
Upset by the paper’s call to readers to rate women by their cleavages, Becker says: “That’s when Kristina thought something like the No More Page 3 campaign should be done in Germany.”
Lunz was aware of Lucy-Anne Holmes’s campaign because she is currently an Oxford university student.
So, like No More Page 3, Becker and Lunz started a petition asking Bild’s editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann to abolish the paper’s topless “Bild girl”.
Becker says: “The No More Page 3 story in the UK is giving us a big boost, and the other success is that we’ve been recognised by Kai Diekmann.
“He tweets to us regularly, even though it’s not in a very respectful manner. He doesn’t take us seriously but he has recognised our existence.”
In March 2012, Bild stopped publishing bare-breasted pictures of women on its front page, having started the feature in 1984. They were moved inside the paper instead.
Bild is published by the Berlin-based Axel Springer, one of Europe’s largest newspaper owners with holdings in more than 40 countries.
Source: The Local
