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From: eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu (johan van Zanten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SEX! (Now that we've got your attention...)
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Date: 7 Jul 90 20:45:22 GMT
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In article <1975@key.COM> jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston) writes:
>Let's put more emphasis on your second question:  Does it matter?  Why are
>you even spending your time raising this issue?  Why do you feel that it is
>important?  Did the MacUser cover in question inhibit you from buying the
>magazine?  Did it detract from your enjoyment of the contents?  Did it
>interfere with your ability to obtain the information you needed?  If we
>do see a row of women in bikinis selling WordMaker, what difference will that
>make to you?  You wanted discussion, so tell me what is wrong with using
>attractive women in advertising?  Why is it any more "wrong" than using cute
>babies, or cuddly puppies, or a cute animated helocar, or an imitation Charlie
>Chaplin, or any of the other thousands of ways that advertisers try to get
>your attention?
>
>--James Preston
  	Well, this is quickly exiting the realm of "comp.sys.mac.misc" but 
i, personally, would answer yes to most of your questions.  MacUser has done
this for at LEAST the last four months, and it really bugs me.  I feel that
no person should be thought of as merely an object.  This is inhumane, and is
what MacUser is doing. I will not support a company that makes money at the
expense of other people's humanity.  No, the women are not totally nude
and the magazine is not all "smut" as someone observed.  But the CONSISTENT use
of women as "eye-catching" material on the front covers prevents me from 
enjoying the magazine, so i won't buy it.  I'll get my info from the
Internet, or from other Macintosh magazines. (I have a subscription to
MacWorld which i may cancel because of alleged "dunning" or nefarious sub-
scription attempts/practices.)


	Johan van Zanten 	"Don't you threaten me with a dead fish."
(eggplant@walt.cc.utexas.edu)	(from the movie "Withnail and I")