jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) (10/02/85)
In a recent column, George Will (who I ordinarily disagree with strongly) noted
that the picture on the back of a recent Playboy (a cigarette ad) was more
"daring" than the front cover.
Children spend more time in front of their TV set than they do in school.
They learn that sex is a commodity to be bought and sold. It is still the
theme of many television shows that attractive women are to be conquered;
that "no" does not mean no, that the highest aspiration for a young man
is sex with an attractive woman and that almost any means is fair. Men
(and women) aren't born sexists; they are taught, and if anything, kids
growing up now are being taught more thoroughly than ever.
The magazines and films people have been railing against, on the other hand,
are only sold to adults, and for the most part are not considered generally
respectable. Television and advertizements are many people's reality. The
Virginia Slims ad campaign, for example, was wildly successful; now many
more women under 25 smoke than men. It seems to me that perhaps we're
looking at the wrong target here.
I am strongly against censorship of "pornography". Even if my knee-jerk
support of the Bill of Rights were much weaker than it is, I'd still
say the advocates are going after the wrong target.
--
Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc.
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ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014bjl@bridge2.UUCP (10/10/85)
> In a recent column, George Will (who I ordinarily disagree with strongly) noted > that the picture on the back of a recent Playboy (a cigarette ad) was more > "daring" than the front cover. I noticed awhile back that the COSMOPOLITAN magazine is more geared in its advertizing towards men. Looking at the cover of a COSMOS and a cover of PLAYBOY, there is really no noticable difference. On a womans magazine it would make more sense to have a gorgeous male on the cover than a beautiful female. Perhaps COSMOS is geared towards males to buy it for their female SOs so that the female SOs know what they should look like to be sexually desirable. -- shanti, bobbie (dewrl, sun) bridge2!bjl Bridge Communications Mt. View, CA (415) 969-4000 x267 "Only the person who risks is free"