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> Leftist writers should think of women as their primary
> audience and men as the secondary one and try to appeal
> to the former more than the latter.
I can't understand how Amy Goodman or Mickey Z placing left-leaning articles in Hustler in an effort to influence its readers in any way precludes them from also publishing similar articles in the New York Times and/or Vogue in order to influence their readers. I don't see how the one affects the other; the two audiences hardly overlap at all. A lot of people and especially women find Hustler distasteful, even offensive; after all, this is the effect Flynt tries so hard to achieve.
But it's the easiest thing in the world to just ignore Hustler - a lot easier than ignoring the NYT.
I do object to those prissy asses at hustlingtheleft.com for insisting, for nothing more than their own personal emotional gratification, on Amy Goodman boycotting the magazine. In effect they demand Goodman, no not just her but the Left united, should proclaim to hundreds of thousands of Hustler readers, "We don't want _your_ votes, you sexist wankers. Go touch the _other_ candidate's lever with those nasty sticky fingers of yours."
What's the word when working class people vote Republican against their own class interest? let's say "suckery," after "being a sucker." If a guy is guilty of both suckery and sexism, and somehow you manage to win him over and cure him of suckery at least, I call that progress.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net
ps specially for B|L: Hustler is nasty and it sucks but they did manage to produce the greatest magazine cover ever:
http://www.uncharted.org/frownland/pix/hustler_bicentennial_cover.jpg
The photo says it all, my heart swells with patriotism; _this_ is why we're better than the jehadis.
