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MISSDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 10:36 PM
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Remember the old Starsky and Hutch series? I have all
of the series and as I watched them recently I wondered why they have some of the obviously misognist scenes. They really demean some women who are cast as "not beautiful" Remember. I wonder why they did that. It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the series.
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 10:50 PM
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1. That was from the days of Joe Namath and Aqua Velva...
Edited on Sat Oct-24-09 10:55 PM by parasim
The advertising industry was really into the macho culture that was quite prominent in the 70's and promoted it. It's not too surprising that it showed up in the tv shows of the day.

edited, to add: Remember that show also featured the jive-talkin' Huggy Bear. Another indication of the current thinking in modern culture.
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MISSDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 11:02 PM
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2. But, to me, Huggy (one of my favorite characters)
talks like some guys do today. The only jarring note to me is the treatment of the women whom they present as "not desirable" to the jocks.
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 11:48 PM
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3. Yeah, I know what you mean.
Edited on Sat Oct-24-09 11:49 PM by parasim
Huggy was my favorite character when I watched it as a kid, but when I look back at those old shows I feel that the culture at the time promoted the hipness of pimps and thugs and we still see remnants of that today with much of the rap culture. Huggy Bear was an endearing character, but he really looked and acted like a pimp. I really like Snoop Dogg, but I detest his lyrics. Same kinda thing.

But, yes, I do agree that the treatment of women was appalling and tended to make young girls aspire to be like Cheryl Tiegs or Farrah Fawcett to appeal to the young boys.

My point was that that was the culture in those days and the advertising industry as well as Hollywood capitalized on it, as well perpetuated it.
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Mopar151 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-25-09 01:11 AM
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4. IIRC, One of them was a nasty wife-beater n/t
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