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...Will Men Ever Stop?": In response to Jenny Heller's open letter to society, I'd like to point out that things such as Playboy exist because men like to look at women, not the other way around. The difference between the biological drives of the sexes is not governed by what our society condones. BORIS KHENTOV...
...Congress busily passes anti-discrimination laws and President Clinton appoints more women to his cabinet, women receive less and less respect in day-to-day social life. The sexual revolution has erased men's inhibitions, with the result that catcalls on the street have become more common than ever. Playboy Magazine and others of its ilk feature prominently on newsstands. The CNN Style segment displays women walking enticingly down catwalks and posing for the cameras with their legs bare and hips swinging. Bars at which women strip are far more popular than Chippendales...
...nature to search out sex. "Men will be men," they say. I say if society stops condoning men's actions they will learn to limit their affection to their girlfriends and wives and leave the rest of feminine society alone. Society needs to realize that, while Playboy and catcalls may seem like small annoyances, men's ill-treatment of women has serious consequences. There has never been a female president of our country, and there probably will not be for a long time. This is not because people do not view women as intellectually equal to men, but because...
...excess into the over hyped likes of the Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Backstreet Boys. Strangely enough, the Spice Girl's teeny-bopper fans notice no implicit contradiction between one of their role models proclaiming the mantra "Girl Powah" and then posing nude for Playboy...
...verge-of-vomiting way. Unfortunately, in appealing too heavily to the gospel of "sex sells," Rice destroys whatever critical exposure her actual writing might receive. Armand will either be condemned to the bowels of the Canon or, perhaps worse yet, become a favorite among the good-time patrons of "Playboy" and "Victoria's Secret," who actually do subscribe to both publications for the pictures...