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Topic: Chix for my 7 year old to check out!!
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Heather
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posted 14 October 2002 09:55 PM
I was at the convenience store with my son to pick up some cranberry sauce because our grocery stores were closed due to Thanks Giving.Anyway, as I was preparing to go through the check out, my seven year old was at the magazine rack looking at some comics on the floor and as he stood up, I noticed he was eye level with 'men's lifesytle magazines' that had photographs of women wearing bikinis that barely covered their nipples and vaginas posing in provocative ways. REALLY! I couldn't believe it. So I complained at the counter (men smiling and laughing in the back ground). I went home and complained to my husband who thought I was blowing it out of proportion so I asked him to come and see- which he did. In comparing the porn & lifestyle covers of the magazines he agreed that there was virtually no difference. The women's nipples in the porn were visible but in the mens lifestyle magazines which are at our childrens eye level the women were posing more sexually. The guy at the counter said according to the law, they could keep them at that level. I know that Maude Barlow and Judy Rebick fought to have porn magazines stored where children couldn't see them. But it seems that these lifestyle magazines are a new version of that old problem. I am now going to go through the stores (all six of them) in my neighbourhood to see if they all have women on display at children's eye level. My problem isn't that they sell them. My problem is that while I'm trying to teach my sons to respect women so that they are aware that women are not commodities, women are being sold off the magazine rack at their eye level. 
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Heather
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posted 15 October 2002 04:12 PM
I spoke with the store manager who said he was going to call 'franchise headquarters' to inform them of the complaint and the suggestion of having them on a higher shelf.Kuba Walda, I know what you mean. When I noticed this, I was telling my son to get up off of the dirty floor. Also, it would make more sense to have the children's comics on another rack. I have a gut feeling that this system is a marketing strategy that instill's feelings an ideas at an early age to seeing women merely as sexual objects and that it is acceptable. After all, sex sells. It'b big business. It also seems to send a message to young girls that, "This is how you are supposed to look" when you are older. When in reality the average woman does not look like that- and then she is depressed for not being able to look that way.
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