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Letters to the editor Picture Playboy So Playboy wants to interview our women in order to put their pictures in a magazine—the gall. How can they seriously advocate the idea that pictures can adequately represent a woman? Women offer so much more than physical beauty; their minds and accomplishments are often overlooked by this male-dominated society. Playboy publishes nude photos of countless women with such superficial commentary as her “turn-ons” and bra size. Where is the list of her scholastic achievements? Do they honestly think her resume and diploma sufficiently describe them? Sometimes Playboy will publish pictures without any accompanying description, as if to only display the woman’s physical beauty. Playboy, and all publications of its kind, should be banned from magazine shelves. Any magazine that has pictures of women in any form is insulting to our intelligence. When Time and Newsweek publish pictures of Hillary Clinton in their articles, I’m appalled. Can’t they simply tell us what she did to advance health care in our country instead of degrading her by putting her picture next to it? It’s obvious that our society can’t separate praise of appearance from praise of deeds. They should have known better. The publishing industry should take an active role in stopping these abominations. What are we teaching our children? If we keep showing them pictures of pregnant women, like that of Demi Moore, they will begin to wonder why all women don’t have enlarged abdomens. That’s how they learn isn’t it? Quite simply, children of any age cannot separate exception from commonality. When they see pictures in Playboy, they wonder why everyone they know is not that beautiful. It’s clear that pictures of women, of any kind, cannot be tolerated. Our society cannot distinguish the features of a woman, so we must censor what they see. If we show them nude pictures, they will get used to seeing a woman’s physical attributes, and we can’t have them using their eyes too much. We can’t expect people to reason. They only see what we show them. So let’s not show them the physical side of women; show them only the intellectual side. It’s more important anyway. John Medio |