Why one should not watch neighbours or daytime TV
Random thoughts:
1. Watching daytime TV is very depressing. Besides the usual soap operas, Entertainment Tonight and Infomercials, here is the latest ad:
"What if your husband or partner had an accident or had to take time off work?"
my thoughts: well, living on one income would probably be pretty damn hard... the ad continues:
"How would YOU look after YOUR family? How would YOU pay the mortgate, bills, car repayments, and for the necessities, like food and clothing? How would YOU live with no steady income?"
I mean, i know these ads are targetted, but this made absolutely no mention of the fact that anyone other than a stay-at-home housewife was watching. None. I'm not a feminist, quite far from it, but I mean, surely at least some of us in the current day and age *somehow* manage to provide for ourselves/our families as well. And obviously there was absolutely no possibility that the husband could be at home looking after the family, and it could be the wife's income that was lost. I mean, they could have made it at least slightly politically correct with "Losing one income is very hard, how will your family cope?"
2. Watching Neighbours is disturbing. The latest addition is a russian woman (there have been hints at Mail Order Bride, except she's pretty old...) who seems to have been imported from 20 years ago from a Siberian Concentration Camp rather than from Russia. And she far from portrays Russia in a very nice light, its seems like they took the clueless super-prejudiced guys from the above ad and got his opinion on what life and people are like in Russia and made the episodes based on that. I mean, this woman gets taken to a nature reserve or soemthing and wants to buy a kangaroo, and when she's told that she can't, she says "Oh wow, are they too expensive? No? then why not? Oh they're preserved... And noone steals them and sells them on the black market?" I mean, for goodness' sake, who steals animals from forests and sells them on the black market in Russia? And they talk about lack of food and queues and stuff, and again, this was a pretty long time ago. I mean, when I left, which was 10 years ago, a lot of things may have been expensive but certainly all the items she listed, like "bread, eggs, flour, bacon and saussages" were fairly easily acquirable.
I know its only Neighbours, but still...
3. And this is a cool thing, actually: I found a book that my parents have bought, which was published in 1991 about these Australian guys who went to Russia and drove from Vladivostok to Moscow, in 6 weeks. They took photos all throughout the trip, and they took photos of all these kids on the 1st of September. This is actually when I first started school... I don't know, its not that random a thing, but I think its cool that somewhere in a totally random part of the world there were these old men from Australia travelling around taking photos and all this important stuff like the Coup was going on, but we were only tiny little kids in brown uniforms excited and scared about our first day of school.
1. Watching daytime TV is very depressing. Besides the usual soap operas, Entertainment Tonight and Infomercials, here is the latest ad:
"What if your husband or partner had an accident or had to take time off work?"
my thoughts: well, living on one income would probably be pretty damn hard... the ad continues:
"How would YOU look after YOUR family? How would YOU pay the mortgate, bills, car repayments, and for the necessities, like food and clothing? How would YOU live with no steady income?"
I mean, i know these ads are targetted, but this made absolutely no mention of the fact that anyone other than a stay-at-home housewife was watching. None. I'm not a feminist, quite far from it, but I mean, surely at least some of us in the current day and age *somehow* manage to provide for ourselves/our families as well. And obviously there was absolutely no possibility that the husband could be at home looking after the family, and it could be the wife's income that was lost. I mean, they could have made it at least slightly politically correct with "Losing one income is very hard, how will your family cope?"
2. Watching Neighbours is disturbing. The latest addition is a russian woman (there have been hints at Mail Order Bride, except she's pretty old...) who seems to have been imported from 20 years ago from a Siberian Concentration Camp rather than from Russia. And she far from portrays Russia in a very nice light, its seems like they took the clueless super-prejudiced guys from the above ad and got his opinion on what life and people are like in Russia and made the episodes based on that. I mean, this woman gets taken to a nature reserve or soemthing and wants to buy a kangaroo, and when she's told that she can't, she says "Oh wow, are they too expensive? No? then why not? Oh they're preserved... And noone steals them and sells them on the black market?" I mean, for goodness' sake, who steals animals from forests and sells them on the black market in Russia? And they talk about lack of food and queues and stuff, and again, this was a pretty long time ago. I mean, when I left, which was 10 years ago, a lot of things may have been expensive but certainly all the items she listed, like "bread, eggs, flour, bacon and saussages" were fairly easily acquirable.
I know its only Neighbours, but still...
3. And this is a cool thing, actually: I found a book that my parents have bought, which was published in 1991 about these Australian guys who went to Russia and drove from Vladivostok to Moscow, in 6 weeks. They took photos all throughout the trip, and they took photos of all these kids on the 1st of September. This is actually when I first started school... I don't know, its not that random a thing, but I think its cool that somewhere in a totally random part of the world there were these old men from Australia travelling around taking photos and all this important stuff like the Coup was going on, but we were only tiny little kids in brown uniforms excited and scared about our first day of school.