Outrage at newspaper’s plea for photos of women in skirts ‘the shorter the better’

A newspaper has sparked outrage by inviting readers to submit photos of women wearing skirts – adding that ‘the shorter, the better’.

Hungary’s government-funded newspaper Metropol published a two-page spread on Wednesday, featuring what appear to be covertly taken photos of women in skirts on the metro.

The campaign has been branded disturbingly invasive, and one that would invite further street harassment of women and girls.

It has triggered a wave of backlash online, particularly from TikTok users in Hungary who are calling out Metropol’s stunt as ‘sexist’.

Sophie Klein, a crochet artist from Budapest, was one of the women who posed – defiantly – in a short skirt holding a copy of the free newspaper.

She captioned the video: ‘Me every day since the biggest, tax-funded, pro-governme