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No Nonsense Campaign: The Sexism Wears Thin
Barbara Lippert hit it right on the head in her critique of the anachronistic No Nonsense pantyhose spot [Creative, Nov. 27].
Dredging up such destructive images as two women catfighting over a “whipped” man only reinforces the notion that creative nowadays seems lazy, superficial and—most of all—nonsensical. Not to mention the dude they’re fighting over isn’t exactly Kevin Costner (or even Homer Simpson).
To paraphrase Henny Youngman, if this is what it’s come to, take my husband … please!
Elisa Cibrario
Creative director
Book-of-the-Month Club
New York
From Generation to Generation, The Kids Are All Right
Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever been confronted with so evident a case of “woman in a plastic middle class bubble” syndrome as I was with Debra Goldman’s column, which narrowly defined two “generations” through an analysis of two movies many generations apart: The Exorcist and Pay It Forward [Nov.
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