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 July 9 - InfoPorn and Boys on TV

I don't spend a lot of time watching TV. I've got out of the habit. But I got stuck watching it tonight.

At least on this night, on this channel (9 july, channel 3) it's a boys world out there baby.

There was a new sports programme. SportsTalk. Sponsored by a beer. I watched, entranced, by it. Wondering:

why anyone might make it?
why anyone might spend money promoting it?
why anyone might appear on it?
why anyone might watch it?

It seemed to consist of men sitting around on couches talking sports talk - which for those who are unsure, consists of taking the piss out of each other, slyly boasting, making inane but strongly expressed comments, and showing ignorance - and then periodically getting up and trooping en masses to the games room to play sports trivia quizzes, pool, and video games.

Seriously. Prime time tv, and they had two grown men playing a video game. Oh, and there was a token woman on the show. They struggled hard to understand how a woman's experience of sport might be different from their own.

It depresses the shit out of me that sport is trivialised and exalted in this way.

The two main ads in between shows were beer commercials and anti drink driving campaigns. The real beer for real men ad showed two boys out on the town, visiting the girlie clubs. Yes, and having a fine time ogling until they realise the prettiest girl is a transvestite. They don't take her up on the offer of a bed for the night. Fuck that boys, I say explore your sexuality to the fullest.

The anti drink driving one showed teenage boys. Drunk. In charge of the car on their way to the party. They crash and burn and die. Bold letters on the screen:

If You Drink And Drive
You're A Bloody Idiot

What the ad makers don't realise. New Zealand's better off without them.

Then, a programme billed as the besteversex show. InfoPorn Deb called it. Go here to view the online site. Guaranteed to improve your sexuality. Except the fine print on the site says:

Any medical or other advice provided in our Sex/Life website is strictly for information purposes only and should not be relied upon or substituted for medical or other relevant professional advice. No information provided on our site should be used for self-diagnosis or treatment, and you should not act upon such information without seeing a medical practitioner or other relevant professional first

A part of the show had two models simulating sex, while they intercut a woman commenting on what they did. Dispensing pearls such as "savour the total experience", and "you'll want to consolidate and anchor the experience", and "remember to thank your partner at the end". Deb thought the model scenes were kinda gratuitous to what they were trying to inform us about. I thought the talking head woman was the gratuitous element.

Anyways, for all you men out there, confused about what a '90's woman wants in bed, they want, and I quote verbatim from the show:

men to be men, we love being dominated;
a man with primordial sexual urges who'll drag us into his cave and have his way;
we like the animal magnetism of a caveman;
chicks adore being pampered.

TV is usually crap. Be worried.

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