people i hate...
i hate "educated" folks who think just cuz they opened a book by choice that they automatically have the right to deem themselves cured of the "ignorant bug". if you're white, don't think just cuz you got a degree that you're better than white folks who don't, and don't think that makes you incapable of being racist. if you're black, don't think
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But seriously, what were you written up for?
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i'm adding you if you don't mind...
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A degree does not equal enlightenment.
"Guys " don't exist as a class. "Guys" don't control any any more than
"women" as a (similarly nonexistent) class do; actually, in simple
statistical terms, they arguably control less. As a man who works and
operates outside the media, I do think, though, that female workers
within that industry have more responsibility for their portrayal than
Mr. Joe Average-on-the-street, whatever his viewing preferences.
At the same time, I have grave reservations about the mass
characterisation of T&A on TV as "exploitation". To me, the
term has more to do with terms of contract (and how that contract is
reached) than which body parts you show.
I like my T&A, and I'm not ashamed of it. Neither do I care, more
than in passing, about the personality of dancers on TV, whether they
be male or female. I care that they, and their dancing, look good.
Where balances of power are healthy, no-one gives a fuck if you like
their body. "Do you like my body? My ( ... )
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you of taking positions contrary to mine, so much as adding my rant to
yours. :-D
Why should we expect the introspective, intellectual, poetic side of
women to be reflected in music videos about sex and violence? You
realise that that's what's popular, right? Is it reasonable or
realistic to expect a sensitive, balanced portrayal of women to be
incorporated into that?
That makes about as much sense to me as expecting balanced portrayal of
the male psyche from the WWF!
I guess this brings us back to the valid point that you alluded to,
regarding our individual/collective responsibility for the trends of
consumer purchasing. We ain't buying the intelligent poetic music in
the same numbers that we're buying the superficial stuff, after all...
...but that also brings us to the issue of freeing the music industry
from the bean
counters. Artists have divorced themselves from too much of the
business of music for too long, and it's killing the industry.
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oh, the interview went aiight. i'm sitting here "obsessing over the minutae of the interview"...no really, i am.
i'll post a synopsis of it shortly, although knowing me, it'll turn into a three paragraph rant of some sort. LOL
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