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"In time, the trickle of coverage will become a torrent.
Ragtime
The Uppity Wallet"
Don't count your money unless its in your wallet. Disregard everything that is owed to you, because you are not guaranteed to get it back.
With that said, I agree, for readers digest to print something like this is good news. Now if we could only get Glamour magazine to publish the story.
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by Anonymous User on Friday January 10, @04:36PM EST (#3)
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Unfortunately, the article doesn't seem to be in the British edition which I bought to-day.
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Unfortunately, the article doesn't seem to be in the British edition which I bought to-day.----
Write them a letter and complain. Tell them you are a radical masculist and demand it.
Just joking. But a letter might help.
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by Anonymous User on Wednesday January 15, @04:18PM EST (#6)
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Just got through sending an e-mail to Hummer complaining about their advertisement as referenced in Readers Digest. If we keep up the heat, we can all make a difference because we are dead right on these issues.
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I just read this article. Amazing that it is in Reader's Digest! Heartening indeed. How bout that. He brings up some examples that I was not familiar with. Here are a couple:
"In every possible way, the men portrayed in advertising don't measure up. A recent commercial for Heinz soup opens with a couple in bed, moments after sex. The man falls asleep almost immediately and begins snoring. The woman heads to the kitchen, where she's left a cup of soup cooking in the microwave. The timer rings. An announcer says: "Heinz microwavable soups -- ready in just two minutes.""
We've got to get Heinz on our boycott list. And then here's one about Hummers:
What's more the problem appears to be getting worse. Anti-male hostility in advertising no longer bubbles beneath the surface but floats atop it. A recent commercial for Hummer promises that women who drive the massive SUV will be able to "threaten men in a whole new way."
Imagine that one reversed if you can. Ha!
Here's one more excerpt:
Racial or ethnic stereotypes, of course, have been rightfully out of bounds for decades, leaving advertisers with almost no one to make fun of. Except men. You can still mock them with impunity. And advertisers do. Unless you are particularly unlucky, the men portrayed in television advertising bear no resemblance to the actual men you know. The ones on television are dim, lazy , pompous and incompetent, sometimes lovable, but fundamentally ridiculous. They are clueless and insensitive. Useless lumps of flesh. Meaty doorstops.
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