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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- Newsgroups: alt.supermodels,soc.women,alt.feminism,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 16:07:58 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- References: <lflbvlINNh6j@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <BxBCp7.BC8@encore.com>
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- In article <BxBCp7.BC8@encore.com> aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich) writes:
- >williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
- >
- >>In article 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >>>The fact is we see *one-type* of women portrayed everywhere as the idealized
- >>>women and even this isn't a real type for she is subjected to hours of makeup
- >>>and airbrushing before she goes in front of the camera. The majority of women
- >>>don't see themselves reflected in society at all. How many models have you
- >>>seen with crooked teeth?
- >>----
- >> I had to take issue with this. When was the last time you saw
- >>a car in a car add anywhere that was dented and/or scratched, paint
- >>bleached out, seats torn, tires flat or worn, windshield cracked, rag
- >>top torn, etc etc etc... The fact is when advertisers are selling somethink,
- >>they want to use 'perfect' models.
- >
- >What does this mean? Are they selling women on TV now?
- >
- >al
- ----
- Duh. Women are used as 'model's on which to hang products that
- are sold. Also, models are looked at for their own sake -- just as
- you can buy calendars of cars for their own sake. Nothing is being sold
- except the vision of the car (or women) itself.
-
- -wat-
- --
- --- "If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same
- work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at
- any level?" -- Dr. Warren Farrell
-