Gathering outside Oceana nightclub in Cardiff city centre with placards and leaflets with slogans such as “Mark my essays not my looks” and “Lectures not letching”.
NUS Wales women’s officer, Estelle Hart, who organised the protest said: “This protest was a part of our on-going campaign against the objectification of women. There has been an explosion of these events in recent years which is incredibly disconcerting.”
The NUS Women's Campaign was keen to point out that this was not a protest against the individual women who are participating in the competition and they respect their right to be involved and we wish them all the best in the competition.
The protest was aimed at Miss University GB, and against organisations that seek to profit from the objectification and commodification of women.
They were protesting the mainstreaming of an industry that places an expectation on women to conform to an unrealistic and one-dimensional standard of beauty, and against the spread of sex object culture in students’ unions across the country.
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