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- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Subject: Re: Racism and fried food (Was: Where is Lake Edna? (KFC))
- References: <1992Dec19.204337.4056@ll.mit.edu> <6795@npri6.npri.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:46:01 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
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- >Saturn has that commercial with the daughter going
- >shopping for a car with her dad and eventually buying the car from a
- >Saturn salesperson who was black, but dad was standing bewteen them when
- >they shook on the deal, as if to protect his daughter.
- >
- >Now why couldn't mom take the daughter shopping for a new Saturn?
-
- Dad-as-car-buyer-assistant is a traditional image, and having him in
- there probably gives the ad more warm fuzzies than non-traditional
- mom would.
-
- Yes, society still has gender roles. Saturn isn't trying to change
- society, they're trying to sell cars. I seriously doubt that commercial
- set the movement back more than a day or so. :-)
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- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu
- University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975
- Dept. of Mathematics "Your ball goes over them, it sails off the edge into a
- huge cauldren of fire-breathing dragons." "And they call this a par three?"
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