Ban the Barbie

[Catherine Driscoll]

I don't know. I mean, I see what you mean, but, unlike Buffy, Friends is kind 
of interchangeable with other shows. I think you could talk about popular TV 
without having seen Friends, though I'm not sure how you could possibly rate 
it. Don't they have to have explanantions...?

Quoting Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com>:


> 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
> 
>