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What she fails to mention is that despite these professional achievements, women are still a long way from being accepted as equals in society. What happened to the much-vaunted Ms. political agenda? To the days when Steinem, using the magazine as her forum, spoke for all women in their fight against discrimination...
...Ms. has strayed from the path which its feminist founders envisioned for it. No longer is the magazine an irreverent, politicized bible for the women's movement. Instead, it has become a version of Cosmopolitan--with a pseudo-social conscience...
Advertisements, while perhaps an economic necessity, represented the first, gigantic slip from the prescribed feminist political agenda. Ms. may be owned by women, but companies like Hanes and Revlon control the magazine's future now. And since sex sells, it is unlikely that the businesses behind "Lindsay's legs" will change the content of their advertisements to reflect the editorial interests of the editors...
UNFORTUNATELY, Summers and the others who run Ms. have used the magazine's commercialization as an excuse to shift its coverage--in the wrong direction...
Consider an ad for the publication itself, which appears in the September issue: in it a sleekly dressed Black woman strides down the steps of the Capitol. The ad says that "this year women will elect the President" and promises Ms. readers that they will receive the "inside story" on Washington power politics. The ad argues that because Ms. is now non-profit, it can take partisan political stances that it was precluded from taking during its pre-commercial days...