Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: rivero@dev8g.mdcbbs.com Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Text in _Playboy_ Message-ID: <1991May6.142933.1@dev8g.mdcbbs.com> Date: 7 May 91 17:58:18 GMT References: <1991Apr27.003606.21700@informix.com> <1991May01.163913.57938@uvmark.uucp> Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA Lines: 30 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article <1991May01.163913.57938@uvmark.uucp>, scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl) writes: > > 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". > Kathryn Your statements are "sexist in reverse", making gender based assumptions about what goes in the mind of the male! They are about as realistic (and fair) as if I made the following HYPOTHETICAL statement. "Any woman who spends that much time trying to be beautiful for a centerfold can't have any brains. She NEEDS to have a bio made up for her". It may or may not be true for any INDIVIDUAL. But it is unfair to generalize. Years ago, when I was paying for my college education as a professional magician, I worked the L.A. Playboy Club. I met a large number of the women who posed for the magazine, and they seemed to have about the same ratio of sharp minds to total bozos that you would find anywhere else in life! Do you read Playgirl? Do you read the bios? Do you WANT the bios to be puffed up? Do you get a thrill out of those characteristics? Michael