Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!aero-c!nadel From: scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Text in _Playboy_ Message-ID: <1991May01.163913.57938@uvmark.uucp> Date: 1 May 91 16:39:13 GMT References: <1991Apr27.003606.21700@informix.com> Sender: news@aero.org Organization: Vmark Software, Inc. Lines: 25 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes: >> The material is included for a reason; it gives the person >> pictured the added dimensionality of life and personality. >___ >__ Haven't you ever wondered why so many of _Playboy_'s models >_ are into Elvis records, candlelight dinners, long walks on > the beach, men with nice stereos, and colognes advertised > in _Playboy_? I don't know quite how to break this to you, > man, but there's a slight possibility that these biographies > are (dare I say it?) just make-believe. I don't know quite how to break this to everyone, but *even* if these biographies are make-believe, there are a bunch of (dare I say it?) MEN, who actually get a thrill out of those characteristics! Strange as it is, even if most of the readers *know* the stories, bios, and pics are puffed-up, that's what they want! So it *does* give the person the "added dimensionality of life and personality". It's called smart marketing towards an obvious audience?, bottom-line?, money? Get it? -- Kathryn Scholl ...uunet!merk!uvmark!scholl