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"My TF would often ask me, 'What's the woman's perspective on this', because I was the only girl in the classroom," says Betty J. Mintz '75, who lived in Leverett House and is now a doctor.
The cartoon, titled "Betty in a Wet Fret," was posted on the Web last week. It features the Betty character commenting to Veronica upon seeing a shirtless Archie, and then making a sexually explicit comment.
Lawyers for Archie Comics claimed in a letter sent to the magazine last week that the Demon's use of the characters Betty and Veronica infringes on various copyright and trademark laws and has no protection under the First Amendment right to free speech or fair use laws.
Demon artists created the cartoon, which first appeared in the February 1998 print version of the Demon, by copying artwork from original Betty and Veronica comics and changing the dialogue, according to Demon members.
"It made me a feminist before my time...any woman who chose a profession became a feminist before Betty Friedan ever thought about the subject," she concludes.