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...several months, the door of a student residence in Grays Hall displayed a two-page print out from the Web site of Maxim magazine. The document, called the "Maxim Manifesto," can be viewed at http://www.maximmag.com/1.1-/HTML/list.html. For the record, the first floor of Grays Hall houses only male students. The Manifesto reads as follows...
...MAXIM MANIFESTO...
Meredith B. Osborn '02 was labelled "the feminist" in the January issue of Teen People, a magazine even stupider than Maxim...
...unattractive? All you need is that new shade of lipstick from L'Oreal. Boyfriend not treating you right? Try this new diet, he'll be eating out of your hand. I guess this attitude doesn't make me a good candidate to review the trendy new men's mag, Maxim, but I have great news to report: When your man is going to the gym, he's not indulging his Neanderthal muscle-building urges (okay, that might be part of it); he wants you to ooh over his pecs...
...Reading Maxim is a little like eavesdropping in a man's locker room. Dirty jokes, busty women, perverted fantasies--they're all there. This is not to say Maxim is a poor concept. Au contraire--it caters perfectly to the interests and needs of men, age 18-30. Finally, here is a magazine that tells men what they are doing wrong in bed, what to wear, how to act on a date and the numerous other social graces that women constantly complain guys lack. Does it mean that men are more insecure? Who cares! At least they won't wear...