Word: oui
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...Oui's lowpoints are subterranean. An article called "The CIA's Superpilots Spill the Beans" is probably the first thing outside of the right-wing press to romanticize the war in Vietnam since John Wayne made "The Green Berets." Then there's an interview with Marlon Brando that treats him like a deity and asks him such probing questions as "Do you believe there are limits to the power to persuasion?" and "Are you worried about your image...
...THESE WEAKNESSES are peripheral to its fundamental failing, its sexually offensive nature. Oui subscribes to the narrowest kind of sexual stereotyping. Men must be tough, unsympathetic, daring: women weak, mindless, and full-breasted...
...generally in favor of eroticism in its congenial aspects," Oui's editors say, "and greatly against exploitation." Yet there is nothing in Our to indicate that the editors are publishing it for anything but exploitation. As the table of contents says under the article "Cover Girl Bares All." "The first rule of the magazine business is that the cover sells the magazine. The second rule of the magazine business is that a cover girl uncovered really sells magazines. We're not in this for our health...
...take the article "Sixteen Facts about French Women." This is how Oui portrays them: "French women are different from American women. They speak a foreign language and drink wine with lunch.... French women are extremely artistic. When they are not posing for artists, they are posing for photographers. They are all very beautiful and can dance the Samba like anything." The piece could be describing animals...
...Playboy not satisfied with selling only one exploitative 7-million-circulation magazine? Jon Carroll. Oui's co-editor, explains: "We saw that there was a market for another tit magazine." And judging from the sales in the Square (Out of Town News called the sales "phenomenal"), the market for glossy this wall make the editors more than healthy...