[soc.women] Double standards! Re: The latest in Playboy controversies

rb@cci632.UUCP (Rex Ballard) (09/30/86)

In article <709@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>In article <246@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) writes:
>
>>A close female friend of mine got revenge:  she got a subscription
>>to playgirl, and, after a year's worth of nude male pics had been
>>accumulated, she posted them up ALL over campus.  Needless to say,
>>they were all torn down within 30 minutes (mostly by male staff
>>members).
>That's a damn shame.
>					Jeff Winslow
Ever notice that female full frontal nudity is rated "R" in films
while male full frontal nudity is rated "X"?

Compare "Bachelor Party", or even "Stepford Wives".

In "Cool Hand Luke", and "Deliverance", scenes depicting male
genitals had to be restaged to get past the ratings boards.

thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) (10/01/86)

In article <426@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>Ever notice that female full frontal nudity is rated "R" in films
>while male full frontal nudity is rated "X"?

This is another good reason to stay away from the Hollywood genre
of movies. *8-)  "Foreign" and "unrated" films will bring youi such
gems as the skinnydipping scene in "A Room With a View" which is quite
tame, but would be rated X by our ratings board.

Ann Muir Thomas
(decvax OR hplabs OR ucbvax Or ihnp4)!tentrnix!reed!thoma

ugeileen@sunybcs.UUCP (Eileen McGowan) (10/04/86)

In article <426@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>Ever notice that female full frontal nudity is rated "R" in films
>while male full frontal nudity is rated "X"?
>
>Compare "Bachelor Party", or even "Stepford Wives".
>
>In "Cool Hand Luke", and "Deliverance", scenes depicting male
>genitals had to be restaged to get past the ratings boards.



	Of course...:-)  It's mostly men who are in charge of making
  movies and they don't want their lovers staring at men the way they
  stare at women.  There plenty of men who think it's completely
  natural (yeah, sure..biology for them)  and acceptable for men to
  to leer at nude women, but immoral for women to do the same to men.
  I like these men to walk around, for one day, each wearing a pair
  of tight leotards....:-) 

amq@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (Amqueue) (10/06/86)

In article <1077@sunybcs.UUCP> ugeileen@gort.UUCP (Eileen McGowan) writes:

>  I like these men to walk around, for one day, each wearing a pair
>  of tight leotards....:-) 

dont bother, if they are that hung up, they probably arent that well hung...

:-)
/amq