Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: re: feminine protection Message-ID: <169@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 09:36:23 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.169 Posted: Fri Dec 7 09:36:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 05:38:41 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 30 About boycotting products with sexist overtones in the selection in the voiceovers: well, good luck to those who are qualified--that is, those who watch and listen to tv. I can't anymore. If I sit and watch for a couple of minutes, I begin hooting derisively at all the wild stereotypes in the programs and commercials, and I'll admit that I find the commercials pack more nonsense into 30 seconds than *any* Monty Python skit, but it's such annoying nonsense, and when I stomp out not to return, it's always during a commercial. When I still could stand it, we had a failing color tv. The only way you could get good flesh tones was to get all the green out, and screw around until red and blue were sort of reversed. Worked okay for people, but things like the sky or the sea were weird. Consequently, late at night, when Brenda Vacarro would proselytize about her brand of tampons...remember the ones with the teenage girls at the backyard pool...well, on our tv they were splashing about in lots of pink-red water. Didn't inspire any confidence in the product in me! I'd chortle and enjoy myself; it worked well to embarrass into silence the loud groaning from my five male roommates about how late at night the ~disgusting~ commercials came on. (hey, what's so disgusting about paper?) Maybe they don't advertise masculine protection products on tv, but I've seen billboards for Cruex (Get the itch out!), and never for bras or tampons. Women watch tv, and men drive, right? Except during football season. Why doesn't the man who feels like speaking about women's products speak about something he's qualified for. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]