Television
So over the course of the holidays, I watched a little TV. Real shocker, there, isn't it?
Anyway, after scrolling through "Spike TV: The Network for Men", "The Man Show", "Movies for Guys who Like Movies", and the like, I begin to wonder exactly what kind of man I am. Sure, I like a pretty girl as much as the next guy, and I do enjoy a good action movie now and again, but I wasn't really into a whole lot of their stuff, which seemed a little sophomoric at the time. All style and no substance, perhaps.
Anyway, having noticed this, I've also noticed a recent (to me) deluge of "women's TV". WE, Oxygen, Lifetime. . . All of these channels supposedly showing what women want to see on the idiot box. So I'm forced to ask the ladies out there(not that I think I'll get a broad response or anything) what they think of this. Are these channels, in fact, catering to a feminine television aesthetic? Or are they just trying to carve out a niche for "girly-girls" the same way Spike is marketed at "manly-men"?
Anyway, after scrolling through "Spike TV: The Network for Men", "The Man Show", "Movies for Guys who Like Movies", and the like, I begin to wonder exactly what kind of man I am. Sure, I like a pretty girl as much as the next guy, and I do enjoy a good action movie now and again, but I wasn't really into a whole lot of their stuff, which seemed a little sophomoric at the time. All style and no substance, perhaps.
Anyway, having noticed this, I've also noticed a recent (to me) deluge of "women's TV". WE, Oxygen, Lifetime. . . All of these channels supposedly showing what women want to see on the idiot box. So I'm forced to ask the ladies out there(not that I think I'll get a broad response or anything) what they think of this. Are these channels, in fact, catering to a feminine television aesthetic? Or are they just trying to carve out a niche for "girly-girls" the same way Spike is marketed at "manly-men"?