Wishful Thinking...

[ricardo shillyshally]

Yes sorry, the biggest problem I have is deciding which thread(maybe because I don't start with the thread!). I don't know about the early puberty being down to nutrition; think about pageants, pop singers, programmes, and magazines influencing the way girls talk, dress, think . Of course I'm a Shenny fan, but I also studied culture as a way of understanding human mindsets, so I'm always looking at all the angles, and trying to understand, why they portray men this way in BB(who haven't moved on from their adolescent shows), and also why shows seem to have an agenda, ie: do they explore new ideas and ways of being, or do they just trundle down the same old worn out plots. As he said in the article, a few large corporations (incl:CBS) now control the media, and they are very conservative in outlook. I can now see how Disney took Grimm's fairy tales, and get chidren believing in happy ever after rom coms ie:the fairy tale is extended into adult life(even Penny, A&B dressed as Disney princesses, isn't that strange, but also indicative of a certain mindset[although Penny is always cynical of 'dressing up'!). I suppose what I'm wishing for is that people wake up and stop watching programmes that are a stream of cliches. Let's face it, it seems 98% of BB fans just accept what they are given, we expect more!(rant over)