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- From: dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 15:43:08 GMT
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- In article <KYTAN.92Nov9125940@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com> kytan@mantra.fia.dmg.ml.com (Kok-Yong Tan) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov8.190743.8606@dragon.acadiau.ca> 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >>I try so hard, but it is difficult to escape. I fast forward through tv
- >>commercials (with a costly VCR), I tear labels off food items stored in my
- >>kitchen, I tear labels off my clothing and don't wear ADs, I listen to CBC
- >>(canadian public radio absent of commercials), I try not to look at
- >>ostentatious billboards, I read ad-conscious or adless magazines.........
-
- >Then ignore it! TV's have "off" switches. Sit in a lotus position and hum
- >mantras/tantras to drown out the ads. All possibilities, no? Sheesh.
-
- I think a lot of people are missing the point. It is really difficult to
- live in our society and not be bombarded with advertising. But the advertising
- is a necessary, integral part to a free market economy.
-
- Trish, how did you decide to buy your TV, or VCR? Chances are you saw
- an ad for it. Why did you decide to buy the particular brand you did?
- If you are intelligent, and I assume you are, it was because you thought
- it was the best one. But how did you come to that conclusion?
-
- Where do you go to buy your clothes? How did you find out about this
- place? Was it, perchance, in an advertisement? For that matter, how did
- you decide to buy the particular brand of clothes you wear, or food you
- eat, etc.?
-
- Advertising is a completely, utterly essential part of our economy. The
- problem is that you only want to see the ads that are helpful to you. It
- doesn't work that way; I'm sorry.
-
- Daniel Welch
-