Women Rule the World

Yeah, I'm with you all the way on that but I'm definitely in a minority if most other homes I know are anything to go by. Not that many people question what they are being shown - they just want to chill out and let their choice of program wash other them without too much effort and suffer through the ads.

I'm not anti-ads though. Some are works of art IMHO and can be much better than the programs they interrupt. I think we underestimate their impact on society; I can so many ads and jingles from my childhood that you'd think I only ever watched telly (Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back etc). I love the Kerrymaid ad at the moment.

Rebecca
 
Fair enough. That's their prerogative.
 
We had this discussion before on AAM so there is no point in repeating myself here. I'm sure that the thread in question can be found via the search.
 
Jeez clubman, I was only asking. Genuinely don't remember a dicussion that covered censorship/impact of ads on society and culture but will search it out.

Rebecca
 
Sorry (a) I'm not sure how censorship came into this thread and (b) I have made my views known on the issue before in a very contentious and heated thread so I don't want to go into all that again here. In fact it may have been so contentius/heated that it was removed because I can't seem to find it now. Basically, the short answer is that I don't believe in censorship of material that grown adults might want to consume (or indeed activities that thet might wish to engage in) with the caveat that no non consenting others (obviously including children) are harmed in any way. The longer answer would take a bit more time. My comment above was not intended to be curt.
 
Clubman, If there was a tendency for ads to show black people being stupid do you think that the fact that there is an off button would make it ok?
 
My daughters have a variety of tee-shirts/pyjamas/other merchandise with that 'Boys are stupid; throw rocks at them' logo. [the semi-colon is my addition, ClubMan!]

I'm working on a 'boy power' version, but I somehow sense that I should tread carefully...
 
I have that t-shirt too DrM!!

I also have pyjamas that have a picture of a factory and say "Stupid Factory, Where Boys are Made!"
 
Just for the record, the 5 minutes of the show that I saw showed the the 'owner' (the woman) needed just as much training as the dog/husband.
 
>> I have that t-shirt too DrM!!

I think I'll stick with my

"Got this for my Girlfriend
(Awsome Trade)"

T-Shirt.

-Rd
 
I don't think that was a fair comment ClubMan. It was not a loaded question. I was asking if you think that the off button is a valid excuse for any biased broadcasting.
Personally I don't think it is.
I am not trying to insinuate anything about your views and would be in broad agreement with you on the issue of censorship.
 
We have incitement to hate legislation, equality legislation and advertising standards to deal with what might be deemed offensive or discriminatory advertising. For biased braodcasting there's the off button and/or right to reply.
 
ClubMan said:
For biased braodcasting there's the off button and/or right to reply.
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That's not enough! We can't have our womenfolk getting bad ideas off the tele. We should have them better occupied keeping the house clean.
 
well said podgerodge, we don't want their emotional little heads getting filled up with ideas that their diminutive intellects can't cope with. As men we have a duty to protect the weaker sex from this sort of thing. Hrumph!
 
Since this thread has obviously degenerated in one particular direction - does anyone remember this little 'anniversary', earlier in the year? I tried posting it on the fridge at home, but it didn't last very long...!

[broken link removed]
 
$10,000!!!! What a Rip-Off.

I was dissapointed to hear they moved all the Boston Computer Museum's artifacts to California. I guess there just weren't enough Nerds on the East Coast.

-Rd
 
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