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The fall guys: American men take the blame
Spartanburg Herald Journal ^ | June 22, 2004 | Kate Santich

Posted on 06/22/2004 2:31:47 PM PDT by Clear Rivers

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Something to think about.
1 posted on 06/22/2004 2:31:50 PM PDT by Clear Rivers
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To: Clear Rivers

Homer Simpson ??


2 posted on 06/22/2004 2:33:11 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Clear Rivers

No wonder more American men are finding foreign women attractive.


3 posted on 06/22/2004 2:33:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Clear Rivers

It's obvious why they get away with it. Men don't whine all day about how they're being portrayed, because we're too busy doing useful stuff.

Flame on.


4 posted on 06/22/2004 2:35:16 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Earth first! We can mine the other planets later.)
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To: Clear Rivers
National
Organization of

Men
Against
Amazonian
Mastery.

5 posted on 06/22/2004 2:35:43 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
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To: Clear Rivers
... most of the offending ads are created by men.

Metrosexuals, most likely.

6 posted on 06/22/2004 2:37:01 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
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To: Clear Rivers
It doesn't stop just at gender but race too.

Example, the Hertz rental car comercial where the black guy standing in line berates the white guy who is angry at having to stand in a long line.

I am quickly converging to the point of totally yanking all commercial television programming.

7 posted on 06/22/2004 2:37:04 PM PDT by lormand (Save the Whales? Call a Democrat! Save the World? Call the Republicans)
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To: Clear Rivers

The thing is - women don't need men... They can buy frozen sperm on internet !


8 posted on 06/22/2004 2:39:01 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Clear Rivers

Good post !


9 posted on 06/22/2004 2:39:07 PM PDT by jimt
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To: Clear Rivers

This is why I TiVo everything I watch. I skip over all of the man-bashing commercials.


10 posted on 06/22/2004 2:40:31 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Clear Rivers
Throw your TV set out. Take the enormous amounts of time and money you would have spent on cable/satellite and live a real life with it.

Television is a massive insult to the intellect to anyone with an IQ higher than room temp. The only power these TV execs have is the power you give them. Boycott them (like many 18-45 year old males are) and what they think or do becomes meaningless.

A thought just occured to me - perhaps the male bashing seen so frequently is in response to viewer demographics - men aren't watching (or buying sponsor's products), and catering to the easily influenced Oprah crowd means lots of advertising $$$$ ?

11 posted on 06/22/2004 2:40:34 PM PDT by freeeee ("Owning" property in the US just means you have one less landlord.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I did and have never regreted it!
12 posted on 06/22/2004 2:41:32 PM PDT by WesternPacific
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To: Clear Rivers
Whenever my wife and I are watching TV, we always wait to see how long it will be before a commercial comes on in which a white guy (sometimes it's a woman) plays a dimwitted incompetent who is shown up/corrected/enlightened by a woman/black/Hispanic.

When it inevitably happens, we look at each other and say "Boy those, stupid white people!"

13 posted on 06/22/2004 2:41:54 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

LOL ...Thanks folks.


14 posted on 06/22/2004 2:46:45 PM PDT by Clear Rivers
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To: DuncanWaring
"They think it's their way to be feminists. They think women want to see men as dogs and pigs, and everybody can have a good laugh," says Barbara Lippert, critic for the trade publication Adweek.

I thought it was monkeys and pigs.

15 posted on 06/22/2004 2:46:55 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: wideawake

Pleeeazzzze you mean women... stop making fun of us men....purty please? whaaaah, sniffle....

great way to attract women huh?


16 posted on 06/22/2004 2:47:22 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit (music, music and more music)
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To: Squawk 8888
I'm with you!

This kind of crap doesn't bother me because I am able to laugh at myself. I don't have a chip on my shoulder and don't view myself as a victim.

17 posted on 06/22/2004 2:50:02 PM PDT by OSHA (This is a loaner. My real tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Clear Rivers

We are the last people left on earth, who are mature enough mentally and secure enough in our image of ourselves that we can not only laugh at our selves, but not be offended because others laugh along. We are setting an example for those insecure, whiney, hung upon self, picked on feeling, poor me spewing, demanding unearned respect, pathetic critters to follow, assuming by some miracle they ever grow a spine and reach some similence of maturity.

As long as they are busy laughing at us (their superiors in everyway) they won't have time to blame our successes for their failures.


18 posted on 06/22/2004 2:51:19 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Let Kerry be Kerry -what the hell else is he good for? -but let Bush be President.)
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To: DuncanWaring

What was Al Bundy's men's group called?


19 posted on 06/22/2004 2:54:00 PM PDT by churchillbuff (q)
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To: Clear Rivers

Hello?! I would be TOTALLY lost without my husband. We both need to work full time and he is right in there being domestic. We both do laundry, clean house, change diapers, check homework, shop, cook, etc. My husband is a blessing and I pray I won't ever have to do it without him. We make an amazing team!


20 posted on 06/22/2004 2:56:12 PM PDT by ninergold3 ( The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. Psalm 145:20)
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