Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!uswat!uswmrg2!steve From: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: SEX! (Now that we've got your attention...) Message-ID: <1990Jul9.144200.12914@uswmrg2.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 90 14:42:00 GMT References: Reply-To: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin) Organization: US West Marketing Resources Group, Aurora CO. Lines: 33 In article kaveh@ms.uky.edu (Kaveh Baharestan) writes: >[amherasimchu@amherst.bitnet writes:] >[] Stop right there. Have you seen the cover of MacUser? Have you noticed >[] the last three covers of MacUser? What is going on here? . . . >{... stuff deleted ...} >[] I'm looking for a discussion on this. > >if you are refering to the use of women as objects and / or the degading things >they are doing with feamle images and sex on the last 3 to 4 issues of MacUser >yes, I did notice this. I even felt like posting about it but never got around >to doing so. I think that i get enough of that type of advertizing ( using >sex and sexually suggestive (licking the stamp) images to promote sales and >increase attentionspan) during the 4 or so hours of TV that i watch each week. > MacUser is a good mag and does not need to resort to this type of crap. >Also, it is ludicrous(sp?) to have these kinds of images associated with >Computers and Macs in specific. You know, I have recently seen a parallel conversation in 'Wine Spectator' magazine. They had a picture of a woman in a bathing suit on the beach with a bottle of Chardonnay. The issue was dedicated to reviews of Chardonnays. Lots of people wrote in complaining about the woman on the cover, but the editors said that they were trying to show that wine was could be enjoyed in a lot of places, not just around the dining table. I got the definite feeling that if it had been a man on the beach there would have been no letters. Why does a woman's picture make her an object, while a man's does not? I think women will have achieved full equality when we can have pictures of either sex on magazine covers, and not get inundated with letters to the editor about making people 'objects'! -- Steve Martin | Nothing I say can be held against U S West Marketing Resources Group | Me or my employer! (...uswat.uswest.com!uswmrg2!steve)