Gloria Steinem Calls For Boycott Of NBC's 'Playboy Club'

Yahoo! News:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran women's rights campaigner Gloria Steinem said on Friday she hoped TV viewers would boycott "The Playboy Club", calling the 1960s nightclubs tacky and far from the glamorous places depicted in the show.

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Comments

[MrStat1]

04:01 PM on 08/11/2011

I tell you what. She can watch what she wants, I'll watch what I want. There. That should work for both of us!

[SimonBao]

09:31 AM on 08/11/2011

There's something oddly comical about anyone calling for a boycott of an NBC show. Especially any new NBC shows.

That's a bit like calling for a boycott of buggy whips. People will be surprised to hear that they're still being made.

As for Steinem, there's no indication that she has seen an episode of the program, or even a preview clip. Her condemnation of the series appears to be ENTIRELY predicated on her condemnation of whatever she found in Playboy clubs.

One should never take seriously a person who suggests a boycott of something she or he hasn't even seen.

Sorry Steinem, but this looks like a bit like an attention-grabbing stunt. It worked, the story is here at HuffPost, you got the attention but not the applause.

[Theatrixnyc]

09:58 PM on 08/12/2011

I really can't think of a reason why I fanned you.

[bealebkk]

06:47 AM on 08/11/2011

Please go back under your rock, you day passed during the 70's
...or do you need money?

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

05:47 AM on 08/11/2011

I dislike how f3minists always want to go to someone else's place of business and tell THEM how to run things.

You got OWN, WE, Lifetime, Lifetime Movies, SoapNet, Bravo, Oxygen, even LOGO. Or maybe start your own network and show what you like. But don't tell someone else how to run THEIR network. {{-_-}}

[caseyblab]

01:44 PM on 08/11/2011

Well frankly you sound just as bossy in your many comments.

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

04:45 PM on 08/11/2011

Actually, I'm an advocate of building things for myself and my people. There, I can be just as bossy as I want because I own the place. {{-_-}}

[kkdkdkdkdk]

05:47 AM on 08/11/2011

Gloria, I am with you.

[sarac]

11:34 AM on 08/11/2011

X2. I remember what it was like for women back then. After it became 'okay' for women to wear pants, there were still some companies that didn't allow it...I worked at one. There are a lot of programs I boycott, I'll just add this to my list.

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

05:42 AM on 08/11/2011

If anything, she just helped the show's publicity. Married With Children didn't become the TV icon it is today until some offended mother wrote to Fox Broadcasting calling for the show's cancellation, bringing attention to the show and to the nascent Fox Network. {{-_-}}

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

05:39 AM on 08/11/2011

All thes Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson gender-card-pulling stunts have got to end. Nothing more than attention-grabbing. If you don't like it, DON'T WATCH. {{-_-}}

[pdxist]

03:42 AM on 08/11/2011

While I have to roll my eyes at how networks are throwing sexy stewardesses and bunny girls on TV in '60s throwbacks, it's not like this show is ignoring the problems of the time. The promos show the female lead murdering her attempted rapist.

[benskelly]

12:22 AM on 08/11/2011

I stopped taking anything Steinem says seriously when she said that Lucille Ball's genius work on "I Love Lucy" was anti-feminist. How incredibly uptight and wrongheaded do you have to be to say that? This woman is utterly humorless and a total prude about any sexuality at all, and I think she and her kind were largely responsible for the huge backlash against feminism in the 80's and 90's by women who rejected being dictated to on social/cultural choices like this.

[Theatrixnyc]

09:59 PM on 08/12/2011

I get it. Ricky spanked Lucy. End of story.

[benskelly]

10:37 PM on 08/12/2011

Sounds like the beginning of a wonderful night.

[Dan Same]

12:00 PM on 08/16/2011

My problem with Steinem, and those like her, is that she thinks she can alone define feminism. She can't. There are many different types of feminism, and so when she labels something 'anti-feminism', she can only speak of the feminism she supports. Furthermore, she made a comment about playboy and women who read it (comparing them to Jews who read Nazi manuals) which was not only ignorant and offensive, but anti-Semitic as well.

She has a completely single-minded focus to feminism, and it can verge on extremism. An example of that is that if there's something she doesn't like, it should be boycotted!

[JohnnyRivers]

11:38 PM on 08/10/2011

A geriatric grandmother boycott cannot stop a good show...

[Mountain Momma]

11:00 PM on 08/10/2011

She should have just waited. The show is going to tank on its own merits. Even the commercials are just stunningly bad. When I saw the first commercials, I said, "They cancel good shows and put on this junk?"

[Piglet2]

10:49 PM on 08/10/2011

First the Teapubs want to take control of my uterus and now NBC wants to throw women's right out the window with this Playboy thing and the new Stewardess show. What's next? I personally find the Victoria Secret ads offensive and sexist.

[JohnnyRivers]

11:41 PM on 08/10/2011

What does television shows have to do with women's rights?

[JohnnyAce Okeke]

05:43 AM on 08/11/2011

Fanned just for saying that. {{-_-}}

[Dan Same]

11:55 AM on 08/16/2011

So if you find something 'offensive and sexist' (which is subjective), it should be banned?

The Teapubs want to ban women from exercising their reproductive rights, you want to ban people from watching a TV show- you have more in common with them than you realize!

If you don't want to watch these shows, then don't. But don't threaten the rights of other people to watch them.

[stape45]

10:34 PM on 08/10/2011

Why not just call for a remote control in every home that wants one? It's called choice.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

10:27 PM on 08/10/2011

I saw her interviewed on Joy Behar,  what a classy woman!

[ThreeCrows]

10:05 PM on 08/10/2011

Gloria Steinem makes no valid argument on boycotting the TV show, the Playboy Club that hasn't been aired yet other than the fact that it's been 48 years since she did her little expose. This is a scripted show telling made up stories, not a documentary. It's not as often these days for scripted shows to appear on networks these days with the plethora of reality shows. I find that she was noticeably absent when the sex tape queens, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, made their rise to the top showing young girls this is what you do to be famous. But I guess that's okay as we see Snooki and company drinking themselves under the bus and 16 and Pregnant makes single motherhood look like a prize contest. I caught a show a few years ago with this generation of women who see Gloria's era as something they can't relate to because it's been 48 years, Gloria. Th world doesn't live in your vacuum of space. There are women on this show who have jobs and doing their craft of acting. You'd rather see them unemployed just so you can relive your dinosaur fossil past. Freedom of choice and free will is the rule these days. We're adults, we don't need your censorship, we have the GOP for that.