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Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
Thank you love. I added the above words "offensive satirists" deliberately. Lenny Bruce comes to mind. Remember Gloria Marie Steinem? She worked in a Playboy Club to get an inside view. Then write about it.
Writers like George Plimpton, Truman Capote and Isaac Asimov could go there and would get published. And lesser known artists could showcase their work. The "classy editorial", as William F. Buckley put it, had seasoned professional editors.
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Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist, who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1][7][3] She is listed in Who's Who in America.[8]
Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine.[3] In 1969, Steinem published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation",[9] which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader.[10]
Gloria Steinem speaking with supporters at the Women Together Arizona Summit at Carpenters Local Union in Phoenix, Arizona, September 2016.
In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works "to make women visible and powerful in the media".
Steinem currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and is a media spokeswoman on issues of equality