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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Interesting TV Exercise
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:42:26 EST
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> Picture yourself as the statistically average american sitting
> through 5 hours of drivel nightly listinging to those smooth,
> confident voices that always seem to know the best brand of cars,
> computers, or even frozen TV dinners.  Now walk into a strange
> office looking for help or for someone to give an assignment to with
> unknown men and women in it and guess who you will head to.

  I would head for a woman, since, from listening to all those commercials,
I would know that a man would just bullshit me.

  Seriously, I think TV commercials carry far more explicit stereotyping in
their visuals and their scripts. The preponderance of male announcing is
probably the least of their problems.

					Peacshhhhhhhzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
					   Jeff Winslow