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- From: lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.171824.22431@ils.nwu.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov7.171259.13356@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Nov8.003821.27694@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Nov8.190743.8606@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:18:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.190743.8606@dragon.acadiau.ca> 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Nov7.171259.13356@dragon.acadiau.ca> 891666t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trish Turliuk) writes:
- >>>aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich) writes:
- >>>
- >
- >>{sarcasm on}
- >>Oh, my, yes. Almost as bad as those professional atheletes. Horror, horror.
- >>{sarcasm off}
- >
- >>They are adults! They can make their own decisions without any hassle from
- >>you or me, I'm sure.
- >
- >I'm an adult. Why can I not choose to live in a world absent of advertising?
- >I am not able to make that choice without receding into a cave.
-
- So go hide in a cave, if it's that big a deal. :-)
-
- >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.........
- >
- >but I still get bombarded.
- >
- >I'm a person, not a consumer.
- >
- >thoughts a little off topic by,
-
- Seriously, though, what's the big deal. Just ignore the ads. If you're
- mature enough and strong enough to care as much as you seem to, you ought to
- be able to just ignore the ads without all that fuss.
- --
- "TANSTAAFL" lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
-