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I think you’re probably right about “The Swan” and “Are you hot?” breeding objectification and misogyny. However, for every “The Bachelor” there’s a “Bachelorette.” You mentioned “Trading Spaces” as emphasizing a woman’s place is the home…and yet the majority of designers on the show are male. Most of the similar shows are hosted by men. Why is Paige from “Trading Spaces” propagating the ‘Post-Feminism’ ideal? Just because she’s female and she hosts a show about houses?
Posted by Erik on Jul 1, 2004 at 2:59 PM
“Women were cast as too emotional or too bitchy or too reliant on their sexuality to handle a top job with The Donald.” Women were cast this way - or they acted this way because most women will use their sexuality to get what they want? You might do the same after writing this article. I’m not trying to blame the victim, just to show that women are not unwilling pawns here. Nobody tells them to show so much cleavage and have their asses hanging out of their jeans when they walk down the block. It’s just bad parenting, in my opinion.
Posted by Barry Ward on Jul 6, 2004 at 12:33 PM
I agree wholeheartedly with the views expressed in “We Are What We Watch”.
In today’s “modern” cyber-age, I submit that such axioms apply to computer monitors as well.
I was bemused by the four advertisement insets adorning the right side of the aforementioned article.
The read, from top to bottom:
- Idol Audition Success
- American Idols Tickets
- Find Auditions
- Be an American Idol
Increasingly, so-called “liberal” media outlets, such as “in these times”, “the onion” (satirical site), and “air america radio”, are festooned with commercial refuse in diametric opposition to the sociopolitical mindset of the sites they “serve”.
Posted by David Emanuel on Jul 8, 2004 at 10:04 AM
Over the next few years the company bought out other magnet producers, including testking HP0-D07 Idaho-based GA Powders whose product was developed by federal government researchers and UGIMAG’s Valparaiso plant. The company invested in its U.S. facilities but also began building testking HP0-D07 factories overseas.
Magnequench’s operations initially were quite profitable, but the market slumped in 2000, and the company testking JN0-331 announced it would close the Anderson plant. The company rebuffed employee efforts to buy the plant, and the union decided to negotiate a severance payment rather than risk a strike and lawsuit over violation of the agreement not to shut down. Early testking 70-536 last year Magnequench told its Valparaiso workers that the plant would close.
Posted by Clark Anderson on Dec 23, 2010 at 4:02 AM
Aside from the danger and costs — which currently make large-scale hydrate exploitation impractical — is the issue of greenhouse gases. Methane is 70-452 more than 20 times more potent than CO2, and undersea and tundra drilling are already releasing vast quantities of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, where it supplements the rise in methane caused by global warming. It is not known whether the Obama administration’s policies on 70-454 new drilling will include this unproven technology.
Nor do we know how much oil has spewed from BP’s gulf well or from numerous past disasters. One surprising revelation is that oil gushing from the failed 70-455 blowout preventer has apparently coalesced into giant underwater plumes that hold far more of the leaked oil than surface slicks would predict. (BP CEO Tony Hayward denies that these plumes exist; Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman 70-500 of a House Energy and Commerce Committee environmental panel, dubbed BP “Blind to Plumes,” and asked Hayward for evidence. )
Posted by Clark Anderson on Dec 27, 2010 at 3:50 AM
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I think you’re probably right about “The Swan” and “Are you hot?” breeding objectification and misogyny. However, for every “The Bachelor” there’s a “Bachelorette.” You mentioned “Trading Spaces” as emphasizing a woman’s place is the home…and yet the majority of designers on the show are male. Most of the similar shows are hosted by men. Why is Paige from “Trading Spaces” propagating the ‘Post-Feminism’ ideal? Just because she’s female and she hosts a show about houses?
“Women were cast as too emotional or too bitchy or too reliant on their sexuality to handle a top job with The Donald.” Women were cast this way - or they acted this way because most women will use their sexuality to get what they want? You might do the same after writing this article. I’m not trying to blame the victim, just to show that women are not unwilling pawns here. Nobody tells them to show so much cleavage and have their asses hanging out of their jeans when they walk down the block. It’s just bad parenting, in my opinion.
I agree wholeheartedly with the views expressed in “We Are What We Watch”.
In today’s “modern” cyber-age, I submit that such axioms apply to computer monitors as well.
I was bemused by the four advertisement insets adorning the right side of the aforementioned article.
The read, from top to bottom:
- Idol Audition Success
- American Idols Tickets
- Find Auditions
- Be an American Idol
Increasingly, so-called “liberal” media outlets, such as “in these times”, “the onion” (satirical site), and “air america radio”, are festooned with commercial refuse in diametric opposition to the sociopolitical mindset of the sites they “serve”.
Over the next few years the company bought out other magnet producers, including testking HP0-D07 Idaho-based GA Powders whose product was developed by federal government researchers and UGIMAG’s Valparaiso plant. The company invested in its U.S. facilities but also began building testking HP0-D07 factories overseas.
Magnequench’s operations initially were quite profitable, but the market slumped in 2000, and the company testking JN0-331 announced it would close the Anderson plant. The company rebuffed employee efforts to buy the plant, and the union decided to negotiate a severance payment rather than risk a strike and lawsuit over violation of the agreement not to shut down. Early testking 70-536 last year Magnequench told its Valparaiso workers that the plant would close.
Aside from the danger and costs — which currently make large-scale hydrate exploitation impractical — is the issue of greenhouse gases. Methane is 70-452 more than 20 times more potent than CO2, and undersea and tundra drilling are already releasing vast quantities of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, where it supplements the rise in methane caused by global warming. It is not known whether the Obama administration’s policies on 70-454 new drilling will include this unproven technology.
Nor do we know how much oil has spewed from BP’s gulf well or from numerous past disasters. One surprising revelation is that oil gushing from the failed 70-455 blowout preventer has apparently coalesced into giant underwater plumes that hold far more of the leaked oil than surface slicks would predict. (BP CEO Tony Hayward denies that these plumes exist; Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman 70-500 of a House Energy and Commerce Committee environmental panel, dubbed BP “Blind to Plumes,” and asked Hayward for evidence. )
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