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From: bryant@endor.harvard.edu (jim bryant)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,soc.women
Subject: Re: The latest in Playboy controversies
Message-ID: <327@husc6.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 11:54:51 EDT
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Keywords: men sporting playboy logos (tacky, tacky, tacky)
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In article <1076@sunybcs.UUCP> ugeileen@gort.UUCP (Eileen McGowan) writes:
>
>	I know when I see a man sporting one of those Playboy logos..or
>  whatever...the picture of the bunny head...I get angry.  I find it hard
>  to tolerate a man who is proud of viewing women as sex toys.  I am 
>  tempted to give him a punch in the gut or say something very insulting
>  to him.  But, I try to avoid doing either.  It probably would only make
>  him angry at me and want to be a "playboy" even more. 

perhaps i'm wrong, but i've always interpreted the display of a
playboy logo (besides tacky) as an attempt by the wearer to proclaim
to *other men* that he's a "playboy" (trying to impress the other guys
of his sexual success, and to bolster his own ego). i don't think it
is consciously worn to proclaim the wearer "views women as sex toys"
(although that may well be true). if anything, as you said, i would
think women would find it a turn-off.

harvard university/graduate school of arts & sciences/jim bryant -k6
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