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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Sick and tired of cries of sexism (was Re: 9 1/2 Weeks)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:59:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.165906.14145@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <BD.92Dec27093825@fluent.UUCP> <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca>
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- In article <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
- >bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
- >
- >> No offense to gilbert, or even to tara lou, but I'm real tired
- >> of hearing this crap about sexist ads when in fact the
- >> objectification of men is just as prevalent as the objectification
- >> of women.
- >
- >That isn't the point, not that it isn't a good point to make.
- >
- >The point being made is that the advertisers expect their viewers to be
- >men, and they speak to men as consumers, and ignore women as audience.
- >
- >Namaste,
- >Elizabeth
- >
- Point taken. And I'm curious as to whether you're just making this
- statement or implying that you'd like to be included in a different way
- in beer commercials, and that (as a pervious poster has said) men
- should make it clear to Mad. Ave. that they'd like to be included in
- dishwashing liquid commercials. It might be an attack on sexism,
- but I wonder how much sexism is unavoidable as a result of what differing
- preferences the sexes have that cannot be stamped out by conditioning.
-
- On to another newsgroup? (BTW, the rec.org.mensa group is fairly general
- in topics for anyone that finds themselves in threads like this that
- veer away from movies in particular.)
-
- GMS
-