The demonisation of UK lads mags isn't about equality or respect. It's a sexist assault on healthy masculinity

• Co-op has removed Nuts from its shelves for refusing to use modesty bags
• Feminists are threatening supermarkets with legal action under equality laws
• Despite anti-page three campaigns, half naked men are pictured everywhere

By Peter Lloyd: For the past few months Britain's feminazi community have taken affront with men's magazines.

According to their Lose The Lads Mags campaign, publications such as Nuts, Loaded and Zoo objectify women while green-lighting domestic violence in a nation of misogynistic men. 
In a bid to have these titles banned, activists are using equality legislation to scare retailers into submission, arguing they'll face legal action if they disobey their orders.

So far, they've had some success. Earlier this month, it was revealed that The Co-Op have removed weekly title Nuts from their shelves because it refused to be bullied into a modesty bag, even though their covers have consciously  been more conservative in recent weeks.

The magazine's publisher, IPC Inspire, eloquently described the supermarket's ultimatum as 'an unreasonable attempt to prevent shoppers from freely browsing a legal magazine that is already displayed according to Home Office guidelines'. 
Meanwhile, IPC's managing Director, Paul Williams, added: 'The objection that niche lobby groups have against certain sectors of the media should not mean that the right to purchase a perfectly legal product is restricted for the over half a million readers.
'This is no longer a question of whether you like men’s magazines, it's a question of how far you can restrict the public’s ability to consume free and legal media before it becomes censorship.'
And he's right. Because this campaign has nothing to do with equality - it's simply another fashionable attack on our young men.
In the same week that The Guardian's Suzanne Moore wrote a creepy, cruel, boy-bashing guide on how males should manage their penises - printed in what is supposedly our country's most progressive and big-hearted newspaper.
We're told that only women need protecting from sexism in the big, bad media. Clearly not. 
Despite the fact we live in a post-sexual revolution society, where people can enjoy the human body without shame, here we have women taking a moral standpoint on men's free choice as adults. 
Yes people, it may be 2013, but we've swapped the repression of women for the repression of men.
Ironically, what these women fail to realise is that it's their actions that are sexist, not the magazines they despise.
When Stephen Fry made a throw-away comment about female sexuality in 2010, he was attacked by countless women who said he had no right to voice an opinion.
Apparently, female sexuality is sacred and not up for discussion - especially by men. After all, that would be patriarchal oppression.
Yet, in a blatant example of hypocrisy and double-standards, here we have women telling men how and when they should consume their own sexual pleasures.

Edited by WD

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