Saturday night reading Gloria Steinem's 1963 undercover piece 'I was a Playboy Bunny', which you can find here:

http://www.gloriasteinem.com/storage/I%20Was%20a%20Playboy%20Bunny.pdf


It isn't the free will of the working girl I am against. The existence of this sexual industry makes it seem okay (and supportive) for men to degrade women. Whether sexual favours are being exchanged or not (the rules at the Playboy Club as read on 'I Was a Playboy Bunny' said no sexual relationship unless etc etc), it is still a place where men and women are not equal.

That would be the first problem.

Men come as visitors, guests, which mean they have to be served. Women, dressed in the shortest most seducing outfits as possible, "serve" their male guests.

Men are rewarded for their dominance in the real world, this showed in the Club's system of Membership Key and further on, Number One Key holders. Again, this is a clear reality that men are celebrated for their power.

Though packaged in a pretty big bow, the birth of 'The Playboy Club' as a TV series (2011) would support the humanization of gender inequality in a form of entertainment. Being the flawed human that I am, I gaze upon the beautiful costumes on TV when it's Pilot aired. I internalized the images, most of all I love the cinematography and wish it would stay for a while instead of those distasteful Reality TV shots.

But having to watch 'The Playboy Club' every week would mean I root for "working women". It would mean that perhaps, by the end of the season, disillusioned by Hollywood's pretty cinematography, I'd be okay with it as a part of TV history.

"Messy hair, bad hair & bad makeup cost five demerits each". As said in Miss Representation, take apart knowledge, women will always be judged by their looks. And we are brought up to achieve all those in addition to good looks as the finishing polish.Not going to complain, I personally love dolling up, but to put looks as a work pressure (in this case a punishment) instead of a personal grooming choice?

Anyway, this brings me to today's world. Strippers and prostitutes. Same difference. I know, I know, prostitutes engage in sexual activities, strippers do not, but what's the difference if the male dominance is asserted and gender inequality is practiced?

I'd like to ask one thing though. As an admirer of beautiful women myself, what would be the alternative?

I stumbled on an interesting article on Jezebel, which tackled myths about sex and gender. Click here:
http://jezebel.com/5849842/six-myths-about-sex-and-gender-busted?tag=gender

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Saturday night reading Gloria Steinem's 1963 undercover piece 'I was a Playboy Bunny', which you can find here:

http://www.gloriasteinem.com/storage/I%20Was%20a%20Playboy%20Bunny.pdf


It isn't the free will of the working girl I am against. The existence of this sexual industry makes it seem okay (and supportive) for men to degrade women. Whether sexual favours are being exchanged or not (the rules at the Playboy Club as read on 'I Was a Playboy Bunny' said no sexual relationship unless etc etc), it is still a place where men and women are not equal.

That would be the first problem.

Men come as visitors, guests, which mean they have to be served. Women, dressed in the shortest most seducing outfits as possible, "serve" their male guests.

Men are rewarded for their dominance in the real world, this showed in the Club's system of Membership Key and further on, Number One Key holders. Again, this is a clear reality that men are celebrated for their power.

Though packaged in a pretty big bow, the birth of 'The Playboy Club' as a TV series (2011) would support the humanization of gender inequality in a form of entertainment. Being the flawed human that I am, I gaze upon the beautiful costumes on TV when it's Pilot aired. I internalized the images, most of all I love the cinematography and wish it would stay for a while instead of those distasteful Reality TV shots.

But having to watch 'The Playboy Club' every week would mean I root for "working women". It would mean that perhaps, by the end of the season, disillusioned by Hollywood's pretty cinematography, I'd be okay with it as a part of TV history.

"Messy hair, bad hair & bad makeup cost five demerits each". As said in Miss Representation, take apart knowledge, women will always be judged by their looks. And we are brought up to achieve all those in addition to good looks as the finishing polish.Not going to complain, I personally love dolling up, but to put looks as a work pressure (in this case a punishment) instead of a personal grooming choice?

Anyway, this brings me to today's world. Strippers and prostitutes. Same difference. I know, I know, prostitutes engage in sexual activities, strippers do not, but what's the difference if the male dominance is asserted and gender inequality is practiced?

I'd like to ask one thing though. As an admirer of beautiful women myself, what would be the alternative?

I stumbled on an interesting article on Jezebel, which tackled myths about sex and gender. Click here:
http://jezebel.com/5849842/six-myths-about-sex-and-gender-busted?tag=gender