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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:30 PM Original message |
Media worship at the feet of white middle class women. Why? |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Covering such things is cheap, and there are more white women than black |
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No, I haven't read it |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Here you go, from Washington Monthly |
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
37. Thanks! |
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displacedtexan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. White middle class women spend the most $ in the USA. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Exactly |
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kaitykaity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
4. How about Jon Benet Ramsey and Jessica Lynch? |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
38. That's my opinion as well |
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kaitykaity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:46 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Oh, there's a lot packed in that post. |
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doctorbombeigh (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
6. White, attractive, pregnant, murdered - the perfect storm of tv news. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Have money, will buy. |
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olddem43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. You're right - if they were poor and unattractive it wouldn't |
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gWbush is Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
8. it's the PRO-LIFE AGENDA - giving rights to fetuses |
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Pathwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Yep, you get it. The point is that these women were pregnant. |
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. goddamed Shrub using this angle in his campaign ads, that |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. Elizabeth Smart wasn't pregnant, JonBenet Ramsey wasn't pregnant. |
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Caution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because the media still labors under the delusion that |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. Cite statistics for your stereotypes because you are wrong |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Fear helps keep women submissive |
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Caution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. please read my ENTIRE post |
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Caution is not reinforcing that stereotype, he's refuting it., saying |
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Caution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. thanks :) |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:54 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Sorry I misread/misunderstood your post |
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Caution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:56 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. sokay |
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:57 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. sure thing :) Hey, btw, you two helped me hit the 500 mark. WOW! |
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playahata1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:35 PM Response to Reply #25 |
40. The poster to whom you respond is NOT perpetuating stereotypes. |
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lolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. Worship, or voyeurism? |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Except that "evil people out there" aren't usually the killers. |
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doctorbombeigh (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Exactly so. |
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. ugh the Lifetime channel |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. Classic 'damsel in distress' stuff |
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kskold (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Outrage, not fear |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. This was big, here, a few years ago |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Thanks for this--it backs up a lot of the above posts (nt) |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. the little women need protecting |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Keeps the anti-abortion issue alive without arguing |
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
21. I agree with all these factors--and also there's a strong history of focus |
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prolesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. Very interesting perspective |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. there are more white women |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
28. $$$$$$$$$ |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
35. Because we're hot! No, more likely because we do more shopping |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
39. I just want to emphasize that YOUTH is as important as beauty. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
43. Breck Girls = "Good Hair" |
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TexasSissy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-02-04 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
44. Because it touches people. The women were both pregnant, |
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