Since the late sixties, feminists have demanded an end to the sexist double standard that brands women who like sex as sluts, hussies, easy, sleazy, loose and low.
To show their liberation, such luminaries as Gloria Steinem bared all for Playboy. Bravo.
As the decades meandered and Father Time took his toll, Gloria & Co. took umbrage at the suggestion men could regard women as sexual beings, and took back their bras. Looking is how we male oppressors supposedly unliberate their emancipated breasts.
Okay, whatever you say. But how about showing a little consistency? Why aren't Ms., NOW, and the rest demanding a boycott of Playboy and the other nudie magazines? Why aren't they doing more than whimpering the occasional complaint? Where are the mounted campaigns? The pounded war drums? The oil drums filled with burning skin magazines?
Could it be too many of their own members read them? Maybe it's time for Christie Heffner to change the old ad from, "What kind of a man reads Playboy?" to "What kind of a woman reads Playboy?" Can you say...liberated?
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