ok gouys brittny spears is single again

Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:43 pm by Esquilax

AELK - I only oppose your generalisations, not necessarily your sentiments. In this case, I agree with you, as I have always disliked the whole "sex sells" ideology and in fact, go out of my way to avoid patronising the businesses that use such advertising methods. I would also like to state however, that it is not only *some* men's views of women that are used in advertising, but also *some* women's views of men. Indeed, there have been a number of anti-male advertisements (at least here in Aus.), and I feel that it is important to state that, while by no means as common, they still exist. In relation to the music industry, why do you think that bare-chested "boy bands" and other similar performers are popular (at least in the short term)? Because the men are used as "objects" and "eye-candy" for many among the female gender. Let's maintain a balanced view, shall we?

Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:41 am by Tawakalna

I just happen to want the old comfortable things again

nostalgia, actually. but it just so happens that certainly before the mid-1960s/70s, things were indeed "better" in many ways. Families stayed together, sex wasn't as brazenly displayed and promoted, there was full employment, the streets were safer, life was more peaceful and not lived at such a frantic pace, and entertainment was simpler and more innocent. It had it's faults, and many things needed improving, but compared to today it was a Golden Age and I'd go back to that in a flash if I could.

Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:56 am by realm

You are going on about how the past was better, yet this is what your generation turned the world into. It always amuses me to listen to adults talking about how things were better in the past, personaly i feel if your not happy your generation, as a whole has no one to blame except yourselves.

Edited by - Realm on 11/12/2006 8:06:45 AM

Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:37 pm by arton alpha

I really don't care if she is single again i don't pay attention to air headed bigger-than-life-walking-egos let alone a woman that wears more makeup than a clown convention, I'm just not interested in people who need to wear ten pounds of make-up just to walk out of the bathroom in the morning,
I'm not a woman but what's the point if your not happy with yourself as you are your just a joke why look like a clown for the sake of "beauty"
(i have nothing against clowns i just think there creepy

)
@ Taw that cartoon says it all

somebody get her a paper bag

Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:56 pm by druid

@Taw: Golden age my arse! Pre 1960's and '70's? You mean the nice folk that brought us 2 world wars? In the U.S. coloured folk barred from using the same toilet as white and having to give up a bus seat top? The U.K. women not allowed to show their cleavage but not allowed to vote either? Young Irish girls forced into abusive work houses and raped by priests because thier unmarried pregnancies were a filthy sin? With the equality, freedom and enlightenment we have gained in the modern era come some equalities and freedom we do not always agree with. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:29 pm by mustang

Hmmm, indeed, but I know which decade i'd rather live in and it's not this one. Civilisation has become a lot less civil over the past 20 years and self-worth has become a commodity available to the highest bidder.

Edited by - Mustang on 11/12/2006 5:29:54 PM

Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:52 pm by druid

Granted I do not maintain that all today is rosey, just that looking at yesterday through rose tinted glasses is not correct either. There were problems then (if we are considering then to be a kind of post victorian but pre-internet age

) too but in general the impression one would get is that life, for a white middle class and upper class male, had more value. Of course everyone else was a little less safe but perhaps once the women folk stayed at home and the colourds on the plantation they were okay. Now what we have is that not even the poor old white middle class bloke is safe anymore. What is the world coming to I ask?

So? Have civil liberties gone so far as to be uncivil?

Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:37 pm by Indy11

You are going on about how the past was better, yet this is what your generation turned the world into. It always amuses me to listen to adults talking about how things were better in the past, personaly i feel if your not happy your generation, as a whole has no one to blame except yourselves.

We're certainly not blaming you or anyone younger. We are complaining about what is going on and ... to our great disappointment ... the degree to which the latest things in commercialized "youth fad" exploitation works so well.

If you aren't one of the fad followers, more power to you. If you are, think about taking a reality check.

Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:20 am by realm

@ Indy i am who i am, nothing anyone can ever say or do will change that. I hope im not a "fad follower"

Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:24 am by Locutov

@ Indy i am who i am, nothing anyone can ever say or do will change that. I hope im not a "fad follower"

Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:45 am by druid

LMAO!!!

Loc, the beautyful irony of someone actually copying that line can't possibly escape you can it?

Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:16 pm by Locutov

no it can't

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