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From: PUTNAM-L@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Lee Putnam)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Sex and Cards
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Date: 15 Sep 90 04:44:52 GMT
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Last weekend, I went home to visit my parents and to relax.  On one of
the evenings, I worked for four hours at a small store that sells
1000s of magazines.  Most of the items that were bought while I was
working were either "adult" magazine or baseball cards.  The older men
bought the magazines and the small kids concentrated on the cards.  As
I sat, I thought about the comparisons between the two.  Kids buy
these cards so that they can "own" a certain person - say Pete Rose.
By possessing a Pete Rose card the kid feels he knows everything about
the person (from the info on the back) and also has ownership of the
said person.  If the kid feels like it, he can trade the card, trade
the person, for someone else if a deal can be worked out with another
card owner.  They learn that people are commodities.  Later in life,
they will treat women the same way, as commodities.  Traded with
friends, valued highly (sometimes), and thrown out (if it's
"worthless").

Does any of this make sense???

-L.p.P.
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