[Blog] MSU’s Playboy Bunny Coverage Spotlighted
The Mississippi Press Association’s blog is linking stories about The Reflector’s coverage of Playboy auditions on the Mississippi State campusincluding a story by a French Christian newspaper (now, there’s news to some local France haters!).
We dig this line: Charged with covering the story, this reporter was dismayed to find Starkville was relatively smut-free.
Posted by ladd at 08:25 PM in Legislature, Workforce | Email this entry
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Oh by the way, everytime we mention the Mississippi Press Association, we must point out that the organization will not allow the JFP to be members because our distribution is free. Even though several of its members compete with us with free distribution publications. Even though our publisher was a featured speaker to the New York Press Association last weekend about blogging.
But we’re not good enough to keep company with the Aberdeen Examiner (circ. 2,665) and the Calhoun City Monitor Herald (circ. 665) or even the Northside Sun (circ. 9,739).
Of course, there could be other reasons.
Posted by on 04/05 at 09:35 PM | #
It should be mentioned by an individual that saw the same process at a big 12 school, an up roar happened, she was kicked out of Tri Delta, she signed a few copies of the mag, got 1500 bucks and I found out… Playboy does WONDERS with airbrushing! I could look like any sex symbol with their help.... Just a fact for those men thinking the mag is real.....
Posted by on 04/13 at 12:43 AM | #
I don’t subscribe, but the centerfolds I have run across from time to time--going all the way back to Marilyn Monroe--have all looked incredibly fake to me. It’s like looking at computer-generated cartoon characters. I don’t see how anyone could find it all that exciting because it isn’t even really nudity. Real nudity involves honesty, vulnerability, imperfection. A Playboy centerfold is not a true nude; it’s a culturally updated Willendorf statuette.
Besides, it’s not healthy for women. Even these celebrities with their personal trainers and “perfect” bodies are airbrushed into the realm of science fiction, so how can any mere mortal look like that, if that’s what women and men are trained to consider the feminine ideal. It’s silly, and it needs to stop.
That’s why I dig NOW’s Love Your Body campaign. Many women already pay attention to this sort of thing, but there has been no real change to male culture, and there needs to be. Heterosexual men need to appreciate the real beauty of women--not the “beauty” of anorexia, makeup departments, vaseline lenses, and Photoshop.
Cheers,
Posted by Tom Head on 04/14 at 07:06 PM | #
