12 h, aug 9, 2011 y - REUTERS
Gloria Steinem hopes
for TV boycott of
The Playboy Club
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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.“Clearly ‘The Playboy Club’ is not going to be accurate. It was the tackiest place on earth. It was not glamorous at all,” Steinem told Reuters in an interview.
Steinem, one of America’s leading crusaders for women’s rights for 40 years, went undercover to work as a Bunny at the New York City Playboy Club in 1963 and wrote a ground-breaking expose about the onerous conditions for women who worked there.
“When I was working there and writing the expose, one of the things they had to change because of my expose was that they required all the Bunnies, who were just waitresses, to have an internal exam and a test for venereal disease,” she said.
Steinem said she regards the Emmy Award-winning drama “Mad Men”, which is also set in the 1960s as “a net plus, because it shows the world of the early 1960s with some realism.”
But she added; “I expect that ‘The Playboy Club’ will be a net minus and I hope people boycott it. It’s just not telling the truth about the era.”
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