<html><div>Whoa. Assuming that (even though a trustworthy person
told us about it) this had to be another email hoax, I checked out the
websites Scott mentioned. It's for real. I sent a message
already - check it out for yourselves... UGH!</div>
<br>
<div>- Monica</div>
<br>
<br>
<div>At 09:00 AM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote:</div>
<div>>Perhaps we should make an effort to not use S&S texts for a
while...</div>
<div>>BTW I checked out some web sites (check out</div>
<div>><a href="http://pc.ign.com/previews/14066.html" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://pc.ign.com/previews/14066.html</a>)
and the game is real, and even the</div>
<div>>game sites I looked at think it's pushing things. The models
also look,</div>
<div>>well, inhumanly proportioned, shall I say.</div>
<div>>Last BTW: The subtitle of the game is "From here to
immaturity"</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Scott</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>---------- Forwarded message ----------</div>
<div>>Fathers Say Stop Simon & Schuster's Panty Raider</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>(Duluth, MN, April 26, 2000) The national advocacy group Dads
and Daughters</div>
<div>>today called on Simon and Schuster Interactive to halt its
scheduled May</div>
<div>>release of the CD-ROM game called Panty Raider. To win the game,
boys must</div>
<div>>strip supermodels down to their underwear, then provide
photographs of them</div>
<div>>to aliens who "wore out" their one lingerie catalog -
or else the aliens'</div>
<div>>"hormone driven anger" will destroy the earth. Among
the gamers' tools to</div>
<div>>induce the undressing: "Lures - Items such as tiny mints
(lunch!) and</div>
<div>>credit cards. No self-respecting supermodel can resist these
items." From</div>
<div>>making fun of anorexia to objectifying girls to assuming that
boys just</div>
<div>>want titillation from computer games, Panty Raider is a
disgrace.</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Among the objections raised in a letter to the company, Dads and
Daughters</div>
<div>>said: "Anorexia KILLS people, and holds painfully long
years of recovery</div>
<div>>for those girls and women who do survive. It's no more suited
for joking</div>
<div>>than cancer. And then there is the stereotype that the ideal
girls are</div>
<div>>obsessed with shopping and appearance. We have daughters and we
know</div>
<div>>better. And, we are offended when our daughters are repeatedly
subjected to</div>
<div>>the destructive stereotypes disseminated by games like Panty
Raider."</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>DADs executive director Joe Kelly added that the game is also
offensive to</div>
<div>>fathers of sons. "We don't see the humor or fun in
glorifying what Panty</div>
<div>>Raider calls 'hormone driven anger' in boys, especially after
tragedies</div>
<div>>like the Columbine shootings. We are offended when our sons are
repeatedly</div>
<div>>subjected to the destructive stereotypes of boys objectifying
females,</div>
<div>>placing titillation above all else, and using violence or its
threat to get</div>
<div>>their way."</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Dads and Daughters suggests that other parents use the company's
website</div>
<div>><a href="http://www.simonsays.com/feedback_form.cfm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>www.simonsays.com/feedback_form.cfm</a>
to insist that "Panty Raider" not be</div>
<div>>released this month. Or write Simon & Schuster Interactive, 1230 Avenue of</div>
<div>>the Americas, New York, NY 10020 or call 212/632-3544.</div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Dads and Daughters is the national nonprofit membership group for fathers</div>
<div>>with daughters. DADs helps fathers strengthen their relationships with</div>
<div>>daughters and transform the pervasive messages that value girls more for</div>
<div>>how they look than who they are. DADs acts against marketers who undermine</div>
<div>>daughters to sell their products. S&S Interactive, a division of Viacom,</div>
<div>>produces dozens of CD-ROM games in the entertainment and education</div>
<div>>categories. For the full correspondence between Dads and Daughters and</div>
<div>>Simon and Schuster Interactive, visit <a href="http://www.dadsanddaughters.org/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>www.dadsanddaughters.org</a></div>
<div>></div>
<div>>Contact Joe Kelly: 888-824-3237 or Joe@dadsanddaughters.org</div>
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Monica Macaulay <br>
Chair, Department of Linguistics <br>
University of Wisconsin <br>
1168 Van Hise <br>
1220 Linden Drive <br>
Madison, WI 53706<br>
email: mmacaula@facstaff.wisc.edu <br>
phone: (608) 262-2292 <br>
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