European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 while innocently flipping through the pages of the to plus Section in the aug. 5 edition of the stars and stripes Little did i know i would be assaulted with a tasteless Tacky full Page Quot Survey devoted to topless bars in various cities in the states written by the adolescent minded Joe Bob Road the article hoping the author would somehow redeem himself by professing feelings of embarrassment and regret Over his pathetically sophomoric antics in finding the country s Quot Best Quot topless bar. Turns out the Only regrets this fluff brained poor excuse for a writer has Are the women were As in the Case of a Chicago bar not Young enough or in a Boston bar too Sleazy. Too Sleazy a this from a Man who in his pathetic grasp at a cheap thrill frequents establishments where women Wear balloons on their breasts Well listen up stars and stripes i for one am not looking for cheap thrills in the pages of my daily newspaper be it the offensive picture you Felt was needed As a visual Aid or a supposedly witty look into topless bars written by a so called humorists. Some humorists Are just too much of a joke to be considered funny. As is the Case of Joe Bob Briggs. A Shawn Howell a Brussels Belgium. Until now we be overlooked and kept silent about occasional sexist cartoons and sexually biased articles. However your article entitled Quot coast to coast Survey reveals top topless bars Quot by Joe Bob Briggs aug. 5 completely inappropriate for publication in this newspaper. How can you justify printing such sexist material. If its not considered sexist then Why have we seen no articles photographs about male strippers Why no barrage of sexist jokes put Downs and insults about men we assume it s because it would to offensive. Well if this is your standing policy now then let s not deny men this same Quot Freedom Quot by applying censorship Only in their Case. Since times have changed and you wish to provide a wide Range of entertainment news then other readers must to afforded the equal right and Quot Freedom of the press Quot to read All about the Quot Bare grained boys Quot featured in Bottom less bars if it s All right to report on a Quot coast to coast topless breast o Rama Quot and Quot Hooter heaven Quot As Briggs so eloquently put it then How about a Quot coast to coast Bottom less Penis o Rama Quot and Dick i leaven Quot if that sounds obscene a then Why the contradiction a if it s not appropriate to Ieter to men in this manner in your newspaper then wiry the exception for women7 articles like Briggs Are discriminatory and promote a sexist and abusive attitude toward women As Well As men so what s next an article surveying racist comedy entertainment to in oui Are and Appeal to your racist readers7 we should Hope not. A sensitivity toward racist a As Well As sexist stereotypes must be practice we request that Iri the future you leave such articles out of the stars and stripes newspaper. Master sgt Diana l. Henderson a tech sgt Timothy f. Rainville Pitburg a West Germany i just saw Joe Bob Buggs in your newspaper i Hank you1 i just armed in Europe anti i am glad to see that your paper has peanuts. B Calvin and i Hobbes. I lie i a Side doonesbury and All the other comics my wite loves Deai Ann l and ers. My kids like sesame and the sunday funnies. Keep up the Good work. A a Herman Reinhold a Comiso Italy we just finished rereading the sunday paper and especially interesting was the article by Joe Bob the resident drive in movie critic. Funny though there was t anything about drive in movies. What there was though and in abundance was plenty of garbage. If this kind of article has any place in the written Media it s with the menus magazines not on the Back Page of our to Page in a newspaper that is read by a majority of people who done to care to read this kind of thing if indeed any do at All. If it was meant As humor., we missed the joke. This is not the medium to use to lecture you on Why this article was wrong. We have a feeling you already know All the arguments against using such trash. What we find disturbing is that you mindlessly used this piece without thought about your readers. Unfortunately we know that some men do talk and think like this but we know far More men who consider talking about women like this inconsiderate and rude. The stars and stripes owes All thinking people who read its Magazine that Day an apology for. Irresponsibility and rudeness. For the readers who Are interested in writing to the Syndicate who support this Man and his trash Here is the address a creators Syndicate inc. A 1554 s. Sepulveda blvd. A los Angeles Ca 90025 for every step women and other minorities take Forward there is always a person representing this kind of attitude who tries and pushes us two Steps Back. The stars and stripes should not endorse this attitude. We would rather have looked at a Blank Page with a Small explanation of Why you weren t running his column. No we did t have to read it that s our right. The Bottom line is that there is no room anywhere for this kind of sexist attitude a Joe and Laura St. Clair a we Brucken West Germany re the recent letters column concerning an commercials. An commercials impress me too for a different reason than the other writers. My Girlfriend and i have an on going contest to a see How Many misspent words we can spot on the locally produced spots. Since an thinks a Point can Only be made through Quot entertainment Quot Here goes i m the grammar rapper and i m Hie to say i saw some More misspent words on an today. It s Quot i before e a except after c it s till or til a no Quot til Quot on to no apostrophe with personal and relative pronouns since there s no such word As Quot you you re a Clown weather tonight Why one letter Shorter when. Tonitte Ain t rite a letter aborted so Here s an example of nothing a right a i saw it on an a and i saw it last night in closing my German born Girlfriend finds our spelling difficult but the truth of the matter is that she does a better Job than our native born English speaking an personnel she s tired of being a Secretary and would t mind being a Quot department of the army a sgt. 1st class Michael y. Mcluskey a Wil Flecken West Germany editors note a Herb Glover chief of command information american forces network Europe a replies Quot you re absolutely right you be made your Point what your Talkin about. Gets our nose but of joint we Don t have an answer that la fit your Rule cause you re the Grammer rapper and you be been to school a we Don t have this problem with radio we can say what it sounds like and know Juan Wil no. But on to it s not just voices gotta spell out the words a and there Are so Many choices. Then there s punctuation they re Only Little Marks but Hyphenate a word wrong and the rapper s spitting Sparks. Well we have a new proof Reader who just arrived in town a collegiate Type named Webster and he s turning things around. So we thank you Grammer rapper we not annoyed we re cleaning up our act so we can make you unemployed Quot this column is compiled by the letters department. The stars and stripes reserves the right to edit letters to the to plus the Nielsen ratings to listings video reviews top 10 videos cafes movie schedules movie reviews top 10 movies 4 5-8 9 9 10 11 11 staff a editor Art director production editorial. I is Ishanee Sarah Bottorff Sharon Kilday a Lisa Williams Denise Adams Marian Hamilton on the cover jihad dour f plays an evil spirit in Quot exorcist Iii Quot which opened on the Raees circuit this weekend. Staff writer Chuck i Inch Renews the film on Page 11. A stars ind stripes Publica Tiona to plus sunday August 26. 1990
