Posted by Ritmo on October 18, 2000 at 18:16:09:
In Reply to: Ethnic Playmates... posted by KRICO on October 18, 2000 at 15:41:22:
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C'mon, Krico, Hef in the avant garde on this?! So howscome everytime I look in the darn thing (and I just ended a year sub), there's nothing but wall to wall blonde white chicks? OK, maybe he had some token non-white girls as 'breakthrough' poster girls, but I think (without wishing to make this a political discussion) the Playboy manner of handling this is comparable to the way some firms deal with demands for racial diversity by trotting out their one person of color everytime someone asks and going "See, we've got one!" In the past year, they had, so far as I can remember, ONE issue in which there was a little section on 'Latin girls' (maybe 10 photos total over 3 or 4 pages, most of whom looked pretty white, in my view--not even a 'cafe con leche' among them, all very light complexion and toward the pure European end of spectrum features-wise--i.e., put a blonde wig on almost any of 'em and you got Pam Anderson), and beyond that no real ethnic variety whatsoever? I may have missed something, I suppose, but given that in every issue, I was explictly LOOKING for non-white, non-blonde girls, and esp. Latinas, it's doubtful.
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