tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post6398881677869053469..comments2024-03-11T05:26:34.143-05:00Comments on Women Who Serve: Cibulkova retires on match pointDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07124489754017593105noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-42650251961280169292008-07-18T20:24:00.000-05:002008-07-18T20:24:00.000-05:00I doubt it, Anon. If you check around the boards, ...I doubt it, Anon. If you check around the boards, Harkleroad was just "expressing herself." Showing her "power." <BR/><BR/>Ashley Harkleroad has a right to do what she did. But it's pretty strange, coming from a woman who complained about all the sexism in marketing the WTA. However, "hypocrite" has only three syllables, so I'm sure it's a word Harkleroad knows.<BR/><BR/>Gone are the days--my days--when such a thing would not have occurred. <BR/><BR/>I heard that Harkleroad said that <I>Playboy</I> was a "classy" publication. Right. The organization was founded by a man who, for all his talk about the liberation of female sexuality (which he insists was not on the Second Wave feminist agenda--big news to me--I was there), is also the founder of the Playboy Clubs. Those are the clubs where mandatory "gynecological exams" were done on Bunnies, room keys were forced down their bodices by "patrons," and the Bunnies were pressured at all times to "date" important clients. To this day, Hefner denies that any of this went on, though it was all well documented by Gloria Steinem.<BR/><BR/>That makes Hefner not only an oppressor, but a liar.<BR/><BR/>The only entity to whom you can complain is Harkleroad herself. But don't expect much company. Her apologists think we are "prudes" to complain. And her critics think that what she did was "cheap"--itself a sexist complaint.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07124489754017593105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-92027933253247201462008-07-18T19:06:00.000-05:002008-07-18T19:06:00.000-05:00Is there a letter writing campaign and boycott for...Is there a letter writing campaign and boycott for the WTA, Nike, and Prince now that Ashley H. has done her sexpot photo spread in Playboy? I'm really confused about the things I need to do to be a good tennis fan these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com