That's an interesting clip. I can't relate to it as well as women in North America can, since it's legal to advertise prescription medicine there, and it isn't here. We have the same deal with tampon ads though, where it's no longer about your period, but it's about wearing bikinis and white skirts.
I liked the bit about 'non-specific media job'. It always irritates me how women in pop culture are mostly given media and humanities type jobs. The only exceptions I can think of are the women in the doctor/law enforcement type shows, but I don't think that counts as much, since they have no choice there. If there's no show related restrictions on their job, it's always a stereotypical womens' job.
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Date: 2008-08-02 08:58 pm (UTC)I liked the bit about 'non-specific media job'. It always irritates me how women in pop culture are mostly given media and humanities type jobs. The only exceptions I can think of are the women in the doctor/law enforcement type shows, but I don't think that counts as much, since they have no choice there. If there's no show related restrictions on their job, it's always a stereotypical womens' job.