Posts by stephen walker
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sooooo, this sample of USAers is about as intelligent as a sample of the cream-of-the-crop-of-NZers offering their wisdom on heraldyourviews...quite surprising reallly
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hey, wait a minute.
you can't just start talking about sex and cricketers on a thread that doesn't have "upfront" in the URL!!! -
Obviously I do not think your indication of availability constitutes harassment
i do not like name calling, but you seem to have moved well over the line of really boring troll-like comments.
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nice comment, James.
maybe the best yet, not taking anything away from Mr. Parks, et al.
but, i do not see why Occam's razor would suggest the loaded question is not a deliberate ploy. also, you say "PR masterstroke", i say "Propaganda wins hand down, assisted by tabloidised media".why wasn't it called the "on a hiding to nothing referendum"?
;-)
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1. violence is legitimised in the media*, constantly.
2. killing in the name of a.k.a. capital punishment, seems to be quite legitimate in most states of the US and countries like Japan. quick----block your ears! mixed messages!* tv, music videos, films, manga, video games, books, magazines, radio, newspapers, billboards, commercial web sites.
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but I really don't think ithey're as deterministically successful as you seem to think.
that's right, all those fashion choices are just a huge fucking coincidence. no conspiracy theories need apply. it's all just a cock-up.
Might want to work of being less of a douche if you want to continue this conversation.
ah, fuck it?!? LOL!!!
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I'm not saying there aren't issues or that what you say is wholly untrue, but I really don't think that words like brainwashing and programming are very accurate or helpful. Socialisation and personal growth are enormously complex, to think that advertisers can somehow direct that process means giving them way too much credit.
LOL!
brainwashing and programming = bad
conditioning = ???
semantics, eh?so you seriously think that constant bombardment with images from early childhoold through adolescence does not constitute an extremely strong and pervasive form of programming?
media images strongly affect the conscious actions and subconscious attitudes of people constantly exposed to them. the media is big business, in case you didn't know. advertisers do not spend billions as a hobby. they do it because they know it has a high probability of successfully boosing profits. how? by convincing people to buy xy and fucking z, every day.
and you are trying to argue that thefashion statements that Cecelia was referring to (re her sudents) were not largely due to the factors i listed?
LOL!!!
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Dude, you did read the stuff upthread?
yep, all of it.
Positioning young women as perpetual victims in their relationships with media seems both inaccurate and unhelpful.
can you show me where i positioned young women as perpetual victims in their relationships with media? being subjected, from a very young age, to media brainwashing (conditioning) does not constitute "victim" status. it means we are all being constantly programmed, with varying levels of success, to the advantage of advertisers and their lackies. you seriously dispute this? we are all being conditioned, all the time. how we deal with that conditioning reflects a very large combination of individual factors. adolescent women are particularly likely to conssciously or subconsciously absorb and internalise these messages, about their bodies, sexuality, being "cool", etc., etc.
Like most of us, they construct social identity more actively than you seem to believe.
of course they do. but it doesn't come out of thin air. and the media doesn't do its image conditioning on us as a charitable exercise. follow the money.
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you mean you're all not wistful 90s e-clubbing men?
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@Isabel:
interesting. i have a very small theory as to why most Japanese teenage girls until recently wore their school uniform like they were about to walk onto a pr0n dvd set. power. i think that they believed that dressing like that gave them some power. over males. but from there, it all gets quite dodgy, quite quickly, a la violent manga...