Sodom.
Lena Rotenberg wrote:
> >I also have two daughters, who will invariably face this blank stare
> >directed at a facade, and who will turn to me and ask- 'Daddy, why don't
> >they see _me_?'
> >
> >- 'They have not yet raised their eyes to see anything.'
>
> Right on target there.
>
> I think that our brains are pre-wired to focus on the superficial --
> racism, sexism, ageism are examples -- and that's the way it begins when
> we're kids. Many of us outgrow it, many of us don't.
>
> And because many of us don't, there's a whole industry out there making money.
>
> Advertising usually consists of "<You're inadequate> unless you <buy our
> product>". I read a piece not long ago about women's magazines: most have
> a quota with advertisers regarding what _articles_ must be written with the
> message "you _must_ do something with...." [hair / fingernails / skin /
> flab....] in support of the ads placed in the magazine.
>
> Read that message or hear it from your peers often enough, and you start
> believing it. Yes, horrible. I for one don't read them things they call
> 'women's mags'; I'd rather watch Jerry Springer on TV coz I'd get more out
> of it. But again, I can't take Jerry to the Throne Room with me, which is
> the appropriate place to store them mags....
>
> But it all works. In some of us the <You're inadequate> message echoes,
> and we buy. And buy. And buy.
>
> Two cents (which won't get me 1/100 of a bottle of nail polish)
>
> lena
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Lena Rotenberg "Kein Panik auf dem Titanik!"
> lrr@netkonnect.net (unknown, deceased author)
> Please note: my <hermesnet.net> and <crosslink.net>
> addresses will sink shortly!