Playboy made me do it

If you're seeing the makeup then you're looking at a woman who doesn't know how to apply it. What you're thinking of as "no makeup" actually represents a fair amount of makeup. This is what you learn if you do any serious textbook study into makeup.

Look, I once dropped 250 for an iPod Mini. Did I need one? Probably not; objectively there are better MP3 players out there. Probably I was influenced by how cool people think they are.But I bought one anyway; it was my money to spend on what I pleased.These women wanted something. So long as they were appraised of the risks and chose to do it anyway, who are any of you to second-guess them? Freedom means that some people are going to do things you think are stupid or risky. Vagina reduction surgery? Yeah, people should be satisfied with the body that they have. But that doesn't always work for everybody. Nobody compelled these women to have surgery; a few rude remarks don't make your free will evaporate.

Oh, yeah, and cigarettes marketed with cartoons can't possibly be targeted to children, because you have to be 18 to smoke!Look, I read a magazine called "Harper's." You don't have to be a harper to read it; in fact it has nothing to do with harps or harping. Yes, the magazine is called "Seventeen." Yes, the magazine is targeted at girls younger than that.

Yeah, probably. Personally I don't think it's as dangerous as Schraf thinks, but there's an undeniable angle of marketing something that influences children in a potentially negative way.