> On 12/20/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> > The corporate media are generally sexist (e.g., see the gender
> gap as
> > well as other gaps in sources quoted by the corporate media in
> "Power
> > Sources," Extra! May/June 2002, <http://www.fair.org/index.php?
> > page=1109>). Nevertheless, there is a good reason for you to prefer
> > writing for the New York Times to writing for Hustler, if you (as
> > Chip might) get a chance to do so.
> >
> > Writing for Hustler, you have little chance of reaching women.
> > Writing for the New York Times, you have a much better chance of
> > getting read by many women. Besides, Hustler's audience is much
> > smaller than the New York Times' to begin with, and what's published
> > in Hustler doesn't get passed around by email and other means,
> > whereas what's written in the New York Times often is. Reaching a
> > lot of women is more important than reaching few men as far as
> > American leftists are concerned. Women are to the left of men, so
> > women are our base; and to get to men, try to get to them through
> the
> > influence of women in their lives.
> >
>
> However that answers a question different than I asked. I asked why
> Hustler was more sexist than the NY Times.
It seems to me that it's clear that Hustler is more sexist than the New York Times. While the corporate media in general _tend_ to put more men than women in positions of authority (as authoritative sources, writers, editors, publishers, implied audience, etc.), Hustler and other typical straight porn magazines take it to the extreme. Women are not part of their implied audience at all: they sell images of women to men, period. Here, the difference in degree, as it is so gigantic, matters a great deal, and that's the reason why women don't read Hustler but read the New York Times.
While I don't go so far as Chip, as I don't necessarily discourage writers from writing for Hustler -- after all, in a capitalist society, we all need to get paid, and it's difficult enough for any writer to get paid to write _anywhere_ -- I certainly don't recommend it. Any good writing that goes into Hustler gets wasted, as it won't resurface from it and get circulated by email and other means, unlike things that get published in the New York Times and other notable corporate media, which will get passed around.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>