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I am now on iteration six of "why did you delete my yahoogroup". The emails keep getting longer as I include all the paragraphs about how their response has once again completely failed to answer my question.
I honestly no longer expect an explanation, I'm just curious to see how long we can keep this up.
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One of the differences between exercising at the Y' and the community centre where I currently work out is the big honkin' television in the weight room. Since I go there during the day I am now regularily exposed to the visual and auditory treat that is daytime television programming.
It's very blatantly targetted to women, which I kinda knew already without really thinking about it. What I hadn't realized is just how condescending it is. Holy crap. It's all I can do not to punt a water bottle through the screen some days.
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I've also been force-feeding myself reality television for the last couple of months and that's been really educational. I found the Amazing Race really engaging, but so far that's the only one that's had any appeal at all.
I caught the episode of America's Top Model where they actually had the women painted up and posing as victims of violent murders. At one point I was standing up in the living room and yelling at the judges, "What the hell is WRONG with you people!"
I also watched a couple of seasons of Big Brother and I found that one really interesting. The show itself is actually really dull but I get fascinated by watching the changes I could see in peoples' personalities over the three months of the show. I think because I was viewing the whole thing condensed into one or two sittings it became much more obvious what effect the environment had on the participants.
The people who live in the Big Brother household live in a total lack of privacy but at the same time they are completely isolated from the outside world. So they completely lose any sense of perspective. It was like watching one of those old brain-washing experiments where you could witness the obsessiveness and paranoia growing with every interaction.
I kept wondering what would have happened if they left the house and discovered some major event had occured while they were in there and isolated - what effect that revelation would have on them. Like if they had been in there during the events of 9/11, say.
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Today is my first day of bringing my bike to work. Wheeee!
I honestly no longer expect an explanation, I'm just curious to see how long we can keep this up.
One of the differences between exercising at the Y' and the community centre where I currently work out is the big honkin' television in the weight room. Since I go there during the day I am now regularily exposed to the visual and auditory treat that is daytime television programming.
It's very blatantly targetted to women, which I kinda knew already without really thinking about it. What I hadn't realized is just how condescending it is. Holy crap. It's all I can do not to punt a water bottle through the screen some days.
I've also been force-feeding myself reality television for the last couple of months and that's been really educational. I found the Amazing Race really engaging, but so far that's the only one that's had any appeal at all.
I caught the episode of America's Top Model where they actually had the women painted up and posing as victims of violent murders. At one point I was standing up in the living room and yelling at the judges, "What the hell is WRONG with you people!"
I also watched a couple of seasons of Big Brother and I found that one really interesting. The show itself is actually really dull but I get fascinated by watching the changes I could see in peoples' personalities over the three months of the show. I think because I was viewing the whole thing condensed into one or two sittings it became much more obvious what effect the environment had on the participants.
The people who live in the Big Brother household live in a total lack of privacy but at the same time they are completely isolated from the outside world. So they completely lose any sense of perspective. It was like watching one of those old brain-washing experiments where you could witness the obsessiveness and paranoia growing with every interaction.
I kept wondering what would have happened if they left the house and discovered some major event had occured while they were in there and isolated - what effect that revelation would have on them. Like if they had been in there during the events of 9/11, say.
Today is my first day of bringing my bike to work. Wheeee!