Playboy Stifles Women's Voices

The coordinators of the Lyman Common Room proudly announce the publication of the Women of the Ivy League, an alternative magazine presented in response to Playboy magazine's "Women of the Ivy League" issue released earlier this fall.

Playboy magazine not only stifles a woman's self-expression, but it constructs women as two-dimensional "playthings" for men. Viewing women only as sexualized objects ignores their humanity, which makes it easier to condone violence against them.

The alternative Women of the Ivy League magazine was assembled in conjunction with women from Yale, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth and Princeton as a way for women to communicate their own picture of themselves. The magazine offers a way for women to be recognized for their talent, intelligence, creativity, sexuality and true beauty. It combats media images which use women as marketing devices and advertising ploys by giving women a way to express themselves. Women deserve their own voice. In this magazine, women have defined themselves as they want to be defined.

No requirements. No stereotypes. Just pure expression to communicate the three-dimensional women of the Ivy League. Copies are available free of charge in dining halls and at the Lyman Common Room. Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard. --The Lyman Common Room   Coordinators