Word: playboyism
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...reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe earn this great compendium an R rating...
Nothing happens in avoid. Mr. Chan's ad was not just any Playboy ad running in any newspaper. It was to have been an ad soliciting Harvard-Radcliffe women for a pictorial on the Ivy League, running in a Harvard newspaper...
...whole point of Playboy's upcoming article is to titillate men by debasing into objects the very women who strive hardest to escape that role. The message will be that even the brightest, most achievement-oriented women are really nothing but sexual playthings after all--a message insecure, sexist men are eager to receive...
...both cases, those who respond to the advertisements may not themselves be oppressed (a black Harvard student buying a diamond or a Kruggerand is presumably as "educated" and "completely within [his] rights to rights to refuse the offer" as is a Radcliffe student who wishes to pose for Playboy); what is at issue is whether the Crimson ought, through opening of economic opportunity to the advertiser, contribute to the enterprise in question. The issue, you see, ought to be the same in both cases--how far do the Crimson's philosophic/economic beliefs allow it to go in its selection...
...should apply, we believe, should be designed to allow maximum exchange of information, and should exclude only those advertisements that present a strong, clear and direct link to the perpetration of a gross injustice. Such is the case in the Krugerrand ad; such is not the case in the Playboy ads. As much as we, too, would like to rid the world of injustice, we do not think that newspapers should strike advertising except for reasons that are clearly defined, and imply rigorous standards. The reasons given for the refusal of Mr. Chan's advertisement, and the standards applied...