Ban the Barbie

[Nathan Newman]

A "C"- what a frigging outrage.  Although a friend was maintaining last week
that Xena beat Buffy on the feminist department. (I know not currently on
television and probably more NOW-friendly on the violence scale).

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liza Featherstone" <lfeather32 at erols.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Ban the Barbie

Yeah I agreed wholeheartedly with O'R: What kind of feminists would give
Buffy a C? It's the most feminist show on TV. But the NOW president couldn't
defend that because...she'd never watched the show! She'd also never watched
"Friends", much to O'R's justified mirth. It's pretty silly to go on TV
talking about popular TV shows if you've never watched "Friends."

Liza


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:56:58 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: Ban the Barbie
>
> ChrisD(RJ) wrote:
>
>> No Buffy the Vampire Slayer either,
>> unfortunately.
>
> Speaking of which, following Corn's disgrace on O'Reilly last night,
> the president of NOW was on to tout their new ratings of TV shows.
> Buffy got a C - excessive violence! Even O'Reilly was shocked.
>
> Doug