--- Bizarro7@aol.com wrote:
Nowadays,
with the frantic pandering to the adolescent/teen-age male demographic, many producers can't put enough 'babes', butt-kicking or otherwise, in the forefront. This demographic has proven to have the least sales resistance, so advertisers are clamoring for more vehicles to hawk their products on directed toward this demographic
I agree with you there, and I think there's something else going on too, namely that if they do put in women, they can turn to various focus groups, journalists, and other people likely to start complaining about sexism in the media, and say "See? We're providing positive female role models, so you can't say we're sexist." Leaving aside the question of whether or not a babe, butt-kicking or otherwise, is entirely a positive role-model...
Fiona (I *like* Buffy. I *like* Xena. It's just that I'd like to see a female, non-buff,non-gorgeous, normally attired nerd who isn't either a dork or a best friend. Just once in a while.)
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