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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: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:24:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162428.24243@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <BD.92Dec27093825@fluent.UUCP> <ksXHwB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> <1992Dec30.115724.20219@odin.diku.dk>
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- In article <1992Dec30.115724.20219@odin.diku.dk> ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup) writes:
- >panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >You might be forgetting some types of products clearly targetted at women as
- >absolute primary consumer, like 'super/ultra' efficient washing powder and
- >dishwashing fluids that spares the hands... (for the housewife) or shampoo/
- >perfume commercials featuring unshaved/sweaty men - or the exact opposite -
- >the yuppie (sharp dressed) man in suit and tie in the fancy sports car...
- >
- >There's just as many commercials targetted at women as there are at men.
- >
- [....]
-
- Per, Per. You just don't get it, do you? Male society has conditioned these
- poor women to want those things and to respond positively to those images!
-
- >We _are_ different and we just have to live with the fact that the advertising
- >companies knows that - and uses it.
-
- >But wouldn't life be boring if we were all alike...?
-
- We'd assign all the duplicates numbers and the Odds would hate the Evens.
-
- GMS
-