Ban the Barbie

[Liza Featherstone]

I agree Friends is pretty interchangeable. Also bland and unremarkable. But
you would only know that if you'd watched it. And Friends is so ubiquitously
on TV that to have avoided watching it suggests you've barely ever watched
television. Also, to never once have watched such a popular TV show reveals
a profound lack of curiosity about what it is that most of your fellow
humans are up to in their free time. Which kind of disqualifies you from
talking about TV to a mass audience and makes you look like a laughingstock
if you do. At least to those like myself who, to quote a friend of mine,
"enjoy a laugh at the expense of others."

Liza


> From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:14:44 +1030
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Ban the Barbie
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
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