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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.women
Subject: Stereotyping an entire State in one 30sec commerical
Keywords: this has to end.
Message-ID: <299@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 03:21:55 GMT
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
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[This is cross-posted to alt.flame and soc.women because I think both
 groups care about this sort of thing.]

Goodwrench commercial:

Stock footage of alligators            Louisiana, state of swamps and
running around in swamps, egrets       alligators.  It's places like
taking flight from trees in swamp,     these that make you glad you
long bridge going thru bayous and      took your car to Goodwrench.
swamps.


This is depressing.  The state of Louisiana is *not* (contrary to
popular belief) one huge swamp; no more than Texas and California are
big deserts and New York City is a big place full of drugs and hookers.
In the eight years I lived there, I met many people who had just moved
to the state.  Before moving, friends of theirs had expressed concerns
such as "Isn't Louisiana just a big swamp with a bridge through it?"
This is the same sort of problem that the women's movement is having,
that minority groups are having, that anyone who isn't white, middle-class,
and living in a nice suburb and driving a BMW have:

  The forcing of stereotyped role-models onto a huge cross-section of the
  american public, affecting not only non-members of the groups, but members
  of the group, propogandizing both into believing the 'myth' pushed by
  the ad.
-- 
J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007
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