Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!stevens From: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacWarehouse Message-ID: <13209@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 26 Oct 89 20:18:22 GMT References: <26933.2542AACD@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <31351@cci632.UUCP> <1989Oct24.234158.11096@aucs.uucp> <370@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1989Oct25.180150.28389@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <360@oscsuna.osc.edu> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 35 In article <360@oscsuna.osc.edu> spencer@heinlein.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer) writes: >In article alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit) writes: >> >>I agree. After looking at the ad again, it could just as easily >>have been a male employee (any employee) leaning on the Mac. >>It's not slinky or sexy. >> I agree, the picture itself is not a problem for me. > >Have you looked at the MacWareHouse catalogue? It has one of these >"Hi, I'm X. Call me at MWH." pictures, about 1.5 inches on a side, at the >bottom of every other page (approximately). About a third (again, approx.) >of the "X"s are male. A few of the "X"s are repeated, as well. Well, this is the problem I have withthe ads. They don't bother me now, but when I first saw them I was a little upset. The reason is that when I was growing up some airline was doing ads saying "Hi I'm X, come fly me." These ads were indeed sexist and I immediately remembered these ads when I saw the MacWareHouse ads. If the text of the adsa were different I would probably never have been bothered at all. FLAMES to the bitbucket please. =============================================================================== |Curt Stevens (303) 492-1218 | / |arpa: stevens@boulder.colorado.edu| |University of Colorado at Boulder | o o |uucp:{ncar|nbires}!boulder!stevens| |Computer Science Dept. ECOT 7-7 | | |----------------------------------| |Campus Box 430 | \_/ |Its a dog eat dog world & Im wear-| |Boulder, Colorado 80309-0430 USA | |ing milkbone underwear.Norm@Cheers| =============================================================================== ======== | Curt | ========