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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: FOW- Mexican Wine AARRRGGGHHHHH |
| Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:13:40 -0800 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Will Harris" <NonStopPop@c...> wrote:
> Oh, good grief. I grew up as part of a generation where Charlie's Angels,
> Daisy Duke, and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were everywhere you looked,
> and I didn't go around thinking that I was going to end up with a woman
who
> looked anything like that, or that I was going to be "settling" if I went
> with a woman who didn't compare to those women. I mean, you've got to
have
> an ego sticking pretty far up in the clouds somewhere to actually believe
> that what you're seeing on TV, movies, and even magazines is ever going to
> be thrown into your lap in the real world.
It would probably take at least two pages to cogently illustrate my point,
but the short of it is that what people see on TV or the big screen can
certainly have a profound effect on their behavior, and there have been
several psychological studies over the years to support this. TV and video
content laced with images of violence and/or sexuality can have an insidious
effect on our unconscious minds, which will impact the way we think and
feel. Having said that, these effects don't happen to everyone, just as
when a group of people become exposed to cancerous materials, everyone in
that group doesn't develop cancer.
As an aside, the fact that merely because one doesn't think something will
be thrown into their lap because he or she sees it on TV doesn't mean that
he or she won't become desirous of such things.
Fountains Of Wayne, or any other artist, is not responsible for upholding
the morals of society, and they have every right to express themselves in
any artistic manner they choose. However, every artist should know that the
image they present in their work may very well be interpreted in an
unhealthy way, even if the artist had never intended for such a thing to
happen.
David
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