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Art Isbell writes
> 
> And Jeff's recent complaint about sexist ads seems pretty weak also.
> I really don't find a woman with a green right eye and brown left
> eye holding a French horn in Chromagrafx' PixelMaster ad in
> NeXTWORLD to be a particularly sexist ad.  Maybe Chromagrafx
> was just demonstrating how PixelMaster could change eye
> colorings :-)

Using a human face and a piece of metal (the french horn) are deliberate
because these are some of the most difficult things to get right when
printing color photographs.  They chose their image because it showed off
their ability to create great color separations that will print in very
convincing colors.  The french horn really looks like brass, and the
woman's skin is a very accurate color.  If you're a serious customer for
an image editing program, you know about that.  The trick of making each
eye a different color was also a demonstration of what the software
can do.

It's not sexist.  In a photograph of a human being (which was a good
and deliberate choice), you only have two options: male and female.  If
you choose female, you're sexist?  I don't think so.  It is a relatively
tasteful photograph, and it got the point across.  If you want to see
sexist advertising, open any women's magazine.

Thanks for the post, Art.

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