Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epicen.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!nsc!cadtec!csi!epicen!jbuck From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Madison Ave and TV more dangerous than "porn" Message-ID: <225@epicen.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 02:57:24 EDT Article-I.D.: epicen.225 Posted: Wed Oct 2 02:57:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 07:09:34 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 In a recent column, George Will (who I ordinarily disagree with strongly) noted that the picture on the back of a recent Playboy (a cigarette ad) was more "daring" than the front cover. Children spend more time in front of their TV set than they do in school. They learn that sex is a commodity to be bought and sold. It is still the theme of many television shows that attractive women are to be conquered; that "no" does not mean no, that the highest aspiration for a young man is sex with an attractive woman and that almost any means is fair. Men (and women) aren't born sexists; they are taught, and if anything, kids growing up now are being taught more thoroughly than ever. The magazines and films people have been railing against, on the other hand, are only sold to adults, and for the most part are not considered generally respectable. Television and advertizements are many people's reality. The Virginia Slims ad campaign, for example, was wildly successful; now many more women under 25 smoke than men. It seems to me that perhaps we're looking at the wrong target here. I am strongly against censorship of "pornography". Even if my knee-jerk support of the Bill of Rights were much weaker than it is, I'd still say the advocates are going after the wrong target. -- Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd. ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com