Word: playboyism
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...NEWSPAPER STAFF has used its editorial discretion to state that its toleration of pornography--by default, because the alternative would be worse--does not preclude protest. It has expressed the view held by many of its editors that while Playboy and other forms of institutionalized sexism may be "socially acceptable," they should...
SEXISM IS MOST dangerous when it's subtle, when it is so deeply embedded in a culture that it becomes socially acceptable, as Playboy has. And so, you speak out, you yell, you rant and you rave when you recognize this subtle destruction. There is no other way to jar society out of its passive acceptance of the objectification of women, even though in this society it happens to be legal...
...running the ad, The Crimson has taken that initiative. Seven years from now, when Playboy again decides to try its luck with a whole new batch of Ivy League women, we can only hope all Ivy League newspapers will decide not to extend their helping hands. It is both the most and the least they...
That point was apparently lost on those here at The Crimson who thought that refusing to publish a Playboy recruitment ad was the best way to attack immorality...
Some will argue that refusing to publish an advertisement infringes on free speech. Not really, for advertising is not free speech, and, in any case, the Playboy ad is not an opinion. As one editor noted at Sunday's in-house discussion of the ad issue, one must be able to disagree with an opinion, and the counter-argument to the Playboy solicitation is "No, a Playboy photographer will not be at the Somerville Holiday Inn this week...