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...YORK TIMES reporter Judy Klemesrud, according to the most recent issue of Esquire, is sending out Christmas cards this year with a picture of herself lying stark naked on the living room...
...Klemesrud, who says that the women's movement has "come so far" that women can go back to being "the traditional woman." Whatever that is supposed to mean...
...Klemesrud aside for a moment, some credit is due to Esquire for a cover and cover story which has the potential to stir up the much-bedraggled women's movement. It's not so much the picture of Patti Hensen, hands on hips and bust wrapped in tight purple satin ("The next poster queen"), that might startle serious readers of the traditionally male-oriented magazine. Rather it is the stupidly stated fact this is "The year of the Lusty Woman--It's all right to be a sex object again...
...Whatever Klemesrud's point about the now supposedly mature state of the women's movement is meant to be, the impact of her far-fetched editorial opinion has to, in the short run, be masked by the format of her article. Many women, and many men, are outraged, and one editor of the magazine put in a furious call to editor Clay Felker to protest. "If they are going to start running that shit, they aren't going to see my stuff in the magazine any longer," he said. But people who know how to be properly outraged...
...Judy Klemesrud...