It’s official, Kim Kardashian’s naked selfies have been given the Labour party seal of approval by Harriet Harman. On ITV’s Good Morning Britain, to the delight of a guffawing Piers Morgan, Harman sung the praises of the Kardashian selfies. ‘I am an expert on the Kardashians’, she said, ‘There’s a kind of bravery and pioneering spirit in them’. According to Harman, Kim Kardashian’s naked social-media posts are ‘brave and pioneering’.
And yet, in the same breath, Harman went on to criticise Page Three girls, describing them as ‘fodder’ for pervy male readers. The difference between Kim Kardashian and Kelly from Essex, Harman argued, is that ‘the Kardashian girls are controlling their own agenda. The thing about the Page Three girls in the Sun (who, in fact no longer appear in the paper), is that the male editors are producing these young girls for the male readers’. To summarise: Kim Kardashian is in charge while holding the camera phone; Page Three girls aren’t.
Let’s not pretend that reality TV stars produce naked selfies just for the hell of it.
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