IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Fantasy

Socialist Challenge No. 189, 19 March 1981 · p. 13 of the scan · 228 words

The scan: sc-n189-mar-19-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 13 of the scan

This is the stuff of real-life romantic fiction - the kind of fiction that you can read each week in Love Affair. As its title suggests, this IPC magazine deals primarily with love, romance, sex -matters of central concern to young teenage women.

With a circulation of arourid 120,000, it is obviously an enticing package. OF DICIE DRMGER But we do our best to combat the rampant sexism Wiln •walCa SuDJeCIs like this are treated in the rest of the popular media A girl may fancy someone because he's 'tough'; she may think glamorous to be knocked about. But our stories are used to show how widely unhealthy this kind of atUtUUC Is Love Affair also tries positively to guide and inform readers on all kinds of modern problems; unfair dismissal work; unemployment; alcohololll. sexism: race prejudice; premenstrual tension; overeating.

was transported, and relived all my old fantasies.

And this is the strength of Nine to Five. It's comic labour. fantasy WilA positive twist - instead of women being degraded and humiliated in the name of 'humour', women are getting even with the petty who plague our Lyranl: working lives.

A trio of Doralee, Judy and Violet (Dolly Parton, It ulc and Lily Tomlin respectively), from various rungs of the office hierarchy, are LATOWI by disgust of their boss. Over a joint, they swap revenge tantasles

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