Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!allynh From: allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Hollywood Message-ID: <4166@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 16:38:51 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4166 Posted: Sat Jan 12 16:38:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 09:25:27 EST Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 27 Hello... Although this is my first posting, I have been reading the group for some time, and hope this generates some useful discussion. I feel that the way I see how relationships should turn out is greatly influenced by the way they are portrayed in the media, rather than any set of values I have. Television especially, since like most people my age I have been absorbing cathode rays since I was born, basically. I watch very little now, but usually these sorts of basic values are formed pretty early, and despite myself, I try to reach a goal which is realistically unattainable but which seems so casually attained in books, movies, etc. Is this healthy, even if the characterizations are "good"? Have any of you felt that you were being overly influenced by the media? Is the media effective in negatively reinforcing "bad" relationships? I feel this ties in directly with the topic of "pornography - good or bad?". Whether or not it exploits whoever is pictured, it provides an easy outlet for sexual fulfillment, too easy in my view, and that's why I avoid it now. -- It's the damage that we do and never know, it's the words that we don't say that scare me so... Allyn Hardyck ..!ucbvax!allynh allynh@ucbvax.ARPA