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From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: re: feminine protection
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 09:36:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 09:36:23 1984
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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
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