Re: Search for a star
Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
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Andrew Bennetts <[email protected]> writes: > Simon Thomas wrote: > [...] >> The premise of the show is to carry out a social experiment for which >> there is a large cash prize for the winners. We will couple together >> beautiful, socially savvy women with bright males, and through a series >> of challenges, see what they learn from each other. The idea is to >> embrace and celebrate the talent and individuality of each contestant. > > So, the show is premised on reinforcing stereotypes (including some really > obnoxious ones, like that women aren't likely to be smart or interesting in > geeky things, and that beauty and intelligence are somehow mutually > exclusive)... yet the idea is supposed to be that it celebrates > “individuality”? Of course it is. Seriously, do you expect this to be anything other than "laugh at the people who are not like you", recut for a different audience? Daniel Does *anyone* expect that from "reality" TV? -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html