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Written by mike
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 06:22 |
 When Playgirl moves to the web later this year, print subscribers aren't all the magazine will be losing: the tagline "Entertainment for Women" has disappeared, too.
Playgirl has had a conflicted relationship with it's gynocentric calling for awhile. In March 2008, the tagline disappeared from the the magazine cover all together, only to return a few months later in tiny text over the bar code.
In a fit of minstrelsy, the April issue featured gay porn icon Ben Andrews as a ladykiller and asked him about his perfect woman (among other things, the notorious cockman said he was a sucker for "perky tits" and "picnics in Central Park," followed by -- Bridget Jones alert -- a romantic date in a rowboat.)
In May, Playgirl announced it'd be featuring gay porn (sans cum shots and anal penetration in select cities via a deal with Comcast Cable). Perhaps it wasn't coincidental that in June 2008, letters to the editors from gay men out numbered those of women 7 to 5. When it moves to the web, the moniker will become a footnote in herstory.
Maybe now Anderson Cooper will get the hint.
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