Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Interesting TV Exercise Message-ID: <4194@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:42:26 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.4194 Posted: Fri Nov 30 12:42:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:44:55 EST References: <2321@ihnss.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 > 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