crappy TV is a universal human constant (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Jan 30, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• As Jess (who shared this with me) says, “Funny how fodder for the female gaze can only ever be served up with a generous side of laughs, eh?” Also: What a narrow range of “hot” guys! None of them really do anything for me… Rethink Breast Cancer presents: Your Man Reminder

• Crappy TV is a universal human constant… Stupid German Tricks, Wearing Thin on TV

(hat-tip for today’s links: bronxbee)

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bronxbee

Thu, Jan 31, 2013 4:20am

not one of those guys does a thing for me… matter of fact, i didn’t watch the whole thing… i found it a bit squick making and annoying (a nurse tripping over a tray as the guy goes by?)

Mate Sršen

reply to bronxbee

Thu, Jan 31, 2013 10:06am

I found it to be a refreshingly accurate inversion of gender portrayal, in that it displayed a very narrow range of male (/female) beauty as the ‘ideal’, used squicky humor and lampshading to justify the concept, and portrayed women (/men) as losing any higher brain functions when a ‘hottie’ passes by. I’m not saying they did it on purpose, I’m just saying they got it right even in all the wrong ways.

RogerBW

Thu, Jan 31, 2013 12:08pm

It’s that whole mass market thing again – the more people you appeal to, the more likely your programme is to stay on the air, so a million undiscriminating couch potatoes are more likely to be catered to than a hundred thousand people who’ve heard of Mozart. Yay democracy.