I see what you're saying about WW, yes, it does do that and I guess that needs time to build. You're right, my familiarity with the images may have made the difference. With the VM vid though, perhaps because it centers on one woman, VM, and this somewhat exploitative storyline she's had over the 3 seasons, I see it as actually standing in for young women in general. Perhaps that's because I'm more invested in her characte?
And I guess with VM's vid I saw a different point, not women in entertainment, but women in daily life. In that, regardless of what else a woman is in her life, she can nevertheless at any time be a victim (and in a uniquely sexualized way).
Yeah the hospital thing was actually pointed out to me by my mother eons ago. She was noting that soaps in particular revolved around hospitals or had them as a regular setting. She found this bizarre and somewhat distasteful, and attributed it to the general emotional coldness in American life that permitted emotion only in situations involving death and violence.
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Date: 2007-09-09 04:55 pm (UTC)And I guess with VM's vid I saw a different point, not women in entertainment, but women in daily life. In that, regardless of what else a woman is in her life, she can nevertheless at any time be a victim (and in a uniquely sexualized way).
Yeah the hospital thing was actually pointed out to me by my mother eons ago. She was noting that soaps in particular revolved around hospitals or had them as a regular setting. She found this bizarre and somewhat distasteful, and attributed it to the general emotional coldness in American life that permitted emotion only in situations involving death and violence.