Word: exploitationism
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During the last several! days we have been following, with amusement and concern, the Playboy Controversy as discussed in various Crimson articles and editorials. After hearing the reasons given for not printing the advertisement, we felt the Crimson had probably done a good thing. After all, the sexual exploitation of...
But the problem facing the Justices was that laws aimed at the content of pornography inevitably restrict expression, and the repellent and the worthwhile can be so closely braided that no amount of linguistic hairsplitting can untangle them. Drafted with the assistance of MacKinnon and Dworkin, the Indianapolis ordinance targeted...
THE CRIMSON'S DECISION not to run Playboy's advertisement recruiting Harvard women for its October "Women of the Ivy League" issue was both the very most and the very least the newspaper could do to fight the institutionalized exploitation of women.
The question is clearly not one of hiding information or of paternalism, but of refusing to support, either tacitly or overtly, a publication whose raison d'etre is the objectification of women and the exploitation of womankind. It is a question of integrity.
Skin sells. Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione could tell you that. But Sports Illustrated is different--so its publishers say. "If we'd wanted to go girlie, I could have given you 34 pages of nudity," managing editor Mark Mulvoy told USA Today, his comment revealing an all too familiar...