I think I am one of the few people that watches TV ads critically, and I'd like to offer a quick comment about them.
When was the last time you saw a man portrayed as being intelligent? I have noticed a disturbing (at least to me) trend where men are portrayed as idiots, often with a condescending wife standing nearby to protect the poor sap from himself.
I guess that men, and usually white men, are fair game. What kind of message are we sending to the impressionable youngsters watching TV?
About Me
- Alain DeWitt
- Camp Taqaddum, MNF-West, Iraq
- I used to be a Technical Specialist on a U.S. Department of State contract. That meant that I got paid to travel to far-off, exotic locations and work on the computers in US embassies and consulates worldwide. Now I have transitioned to a much more challenging one. I am a biometrics system administrator working for Northrop Grumman (you know, the folks that bring you the B-2 bomber and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers) in Iraq. The base where I am deployed used to be an Iraqi Air Force base. Just before the war started, the Iraqis buried most of the planes in the sand. That's me in front of an Iraqi MiG-29 Fulcrum! (Click on the pic for a larger version.)
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Men being portrayed on TV as fools is the least of our problems. Men are screwed in schools, as the latest academic fad is to try to convince women to join fields they generally don't want to join, like physics and math. In highschools, the boys are largely forgotten for all the "math can be COOL" propaganda thrown patronizingly at girls. The wisdom of liberalism: spend your time and energy trying to get enough women to become mathematicians to match your knee-jerk assumptions about the way the world should be, neglect the people who actually want to do science and engineering, wonder why we have a shortage of scientists and engineers, and use as argument to repeat process at step one.
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