teller said:

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Here's some interesting info on the influence of Wal-Mart... now do you think it's just a store that saves you money??? Think again...

Commentary by Bill Press
June 18, 2003

Who decides what's morally correct in this country today? It's not the pope or the president. Would you believe it's Wal-Mart?

Yes, the world's largest retailer - with more than 1 million employees and more than 3,400 stores nationwide - has set itself up as the country's new culture cop. From now on, Wal-Mart will decide what's good for us and what's not.

Last month, in response to complaints from religious conservative customers, Wal-Mart pulled from its shelves three men's magazines - Maxim, Stuff and FHM. This week, after more complaints, it announced it would shield the covers of four women's magazines sold in checkout
counters.

Now, to be honest, I've never seen the banned men's magazines. Not my style. If they are, indeed, pornographic, then no problem; ban them. But the four women's magazines are about as far from pornography as The Cat in the Hat. Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Glamour are four of
the oldest, best and most popular women's magazines on the market. Sure, each has spruced up its image recently to appeal to younger women, but they are far from what anybody could define as obscene.

This month's cover of Glamour, for example, features a fully dressed country music superstar Faith Hill, surrounded by blaring headlines: "Great Summer Hair, Skin & Body"; "She's 22 With One Month to Live"; and "15 Sexiest Things Women Do Without Knowing it." Surely, any self-respecting woman could spot those headlines in a checkout line without feeling the need to rip off her clothes and suddenly attack the nearest salesman.

Or check out the latest Redbook. It prides itself on offering stories about "Real Life for Real Women" in three categories: family; love and relating; and health and well-being. And these are the magazines some women say they can't even cast their eyes on without being offended?

Why is it that some people want this country to look more and more like what Afghanistan used to be? And who appointed Wal-Mart the new American Taliban?

Obviously, as a business, Wal-Mart has a right to sell, or not sell, whatever product it wants. My father used to operate his own gas station. He had the right to sell Exxon, or Texaco, or no gas at all. But to let a handful of supersensitive religious zealots dictate what all Americans can buy at Wal-Mart, or any other store, is dangerous.

For starters, who decides what's decent and what's not? Will Wal-Mart appoint a committee of smut police? If so, how do you qualify? And what's the definition of indecency? What's indecent in one person's eye is decent in another's.

As an occasional Wal-Mart shopper, for example, I can't stand the sight of gun magazines. Seeing men in camouflage with assault weapons on the cover of some monthly rag offends me deeply because, as a Christian, I think killing is indecent - a lot more indecent than sex. If I complain
to Wal-Mart, will they ban all gun magazines?

As an environmentalist, I'm also offended by the huge mega-stores Wal-Mart is trying to force on small communities like Hood River, Ore., and Westerly, R.I. If I find bigger stores indecent, will Wal-Mart stop building them?

Finally, as a fair-minded person, I'm offended that Wal-Mart
consistently pays its women employees less than men - for the same job - and fails to promote women to managerial positions as often as men. According to documents filed by women workers against Wal-Mart, the average salary for male store managers is $105,682; for women managers, it's only $80,280. Male sales personnel take home an average $16,526;
women, only $15,067. Now, to me, that's really obscene.

Wal-Mart should clean up its own life before trying to clean up ours.

Bill Press is co-host of MSNBC's Buchanan and Press.

Oh, by the way... fuck Wal-Mart.

IceNine said:

Yeah... that too!

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