Sexier than a Librarian is the tagline being use to advertise the Sony Portable Reader, and librarians are ticked. Why shouldn't we be? As one patron told me, "Librarians are search engines with smiles and hot legs." (Well, he might have left off that part about hot legs. I frequently confuse reality and fantasy.)
Any public librarian will tell you that she probably gets hit on at least once a week by the mental ill, partially blind, or homeless, which is a pretty good indicator of our desirability and general hotness.
As a group, we cannot stand for this discrimination and hate speech (that's a little strong, but it's still insulting, capitalizes on stereotypes, and is just not nice). We must take action. If we cannot all descend on Sony's headquarters to unfurl our buns, remove our glasses, and hike up our ankle length skirts while dancing to Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls on the top of the CEO's desk, then let's bombard them with letters and emails until they change the slogan.
The address is:
Sony Corporation of America
Sony Drive
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
Here is a link to email customer service (If you have a better email address, please leave it in the comments).
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-accessories.pl?
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