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Sexism should stop
Sexist advertising nonsense? I feel nothing but
pity for the female who wrote to the Daily Nefaras
kan (April 1 7). It is really discouraging to read such
a letter as that from another woman. It's sad that
she obviously has been conditioned by the systems
of patriarchy and capitalism in this country and has
accepted them without question.
It is very true that "sexist attitudes have been
going on for thousands of years." So I guess we're
just supposed to sit back and accept that, right? I
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refuse to do it.
Compare her attitude to that of slave owners in
the pt. d&vczy had beca going on for hundreds of
years, so why was it stopped? Because we alf real
ized that it had to stop. Women being shown in
magazines like Playboy has to stop also. Why can't
people see the connection? It's all the victimization
of a particular group by the dominating one.
I can look through Playboy cover-to-cover and
never see a true portrayal of what a woman is. Wake
up! We're all demeaned by these sexist images. We
have to raise public consciousness about how women
are being defined by pornographic magazines.
Chris Prickett
junior
sociology
Allen should have acted
This letter is in reference to Bill Allen's column
(Daily Nebraskan, April 16). Allen relates a poignant
story about the lack of parental responsibility he
witnessed at work one summer. He brings his story
to a dramatic close as he relates his indecisiveness
over which person he would rather be: the baby left
alone in the back seat of a car or the shirtless father
behind the wheel.
We appreciate Allen's candidness in relating his
personal emotions. However, individual social respon
sibility was neglected. Leaving a child in a car
unattended in itself is a form of child abuse. The
unattended children plus the hot weather was a
blatant form of abuse which neither the parents or
the bystanders should have ignored.
Allen could have taken a variety of actions to solve
the problem. He could have offered to bring the
children into the airconditioning or given them
water. Also, he could have reported the parents.
Allen could have turned a negative experience
into a positive experience.
Kathleen Rathje
graduate
,v Lynn Wittmuss
senior
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the family
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