Ban the Barbie

[Chuck0]

Amen! This goes to show how out of touch NOW is, even with their own 
constituency. It seems that all the women activists I know are huge Buffy 
shows. I have one homeless anarchist friend who travelled all the way across 
town to watch Buffy on my TV and she was so punctual that the show started as 
she walked in the door.

I'm not a big Buffy fan, but it is a quality program. I can see the reasons 
why it has such a fan base.

NOW is really out of touch with feminist pop culture.

Chuck0

Liza Featherstone wrote:
> 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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