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Glad to hear this is no big deal to you. Please consider for a moment: Why was it so easy to believe that the TV station was bombarded with messages criticizing this womanâs dress?
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A beloved friend of mine comes from the real-life New York immigrant family on which Goodfellas was based. She loathes that movie. Itâs important to understand that one personâs entertainment is another personâs pain. Thereâs no shame in acknowledging you hurt someone. There is shame in denying it.
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And this in a county that has a wide assortment of hispanic stations. If you donât immediately get my reference, goog the phrase âHispanic Weather Womanâ⌠Nah, no common features between all of those picturesâŚ
But by all means, letâs get our hackles up about some weather lady wearing something that could be worn quite elegantly to a nice dinner out.
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Seems a little on the hysterical side to you, huh? Not rational?
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Having been on live TV quite a few times, I can tell you that was no joke. The people and producers that work on those shows are EXTREMELY uptight and high strung because their shows are live and everything has to be super scripted but still âfeelâ not so scripted.
This was an example of some dickwad producer yelling from a studio room down at someone with an earpiece to hand that girl a sweater. So the guy handing the sweater was trying to make the best of it by being âfunnyâ.
Granted, KTLA is known for being âoff the cuffâ sometimes. But someone gave the order to get those shoulders covered so as not to offend the peasants watching at home.
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Itâs not so much that it happened, itâs that the cameras were running and that this was going out live. It wasnât an accident, it was deliberate. The show producers believe this is the way the world should work. That is not OK.
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This was the post, and subsequent comments, that finally convinced me to leave BB and not come back. I used to love it here, have been around since almost the first, and have watched it slowly turn into what it is now.
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Swap genders. Is it still a joke? Would it be humorous for a female anchor to hand a sweater to a male weather forecaster while whispering âwe got some emailsâ?
Or, would it seem strange and awkward? Would someone in the room with you at that moment hear you say to yourself, âwhat a fucking bitchâ?
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Actually itâs about ethics in meteorology.
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For anyone who actually thought for a millisecond that this âbombardmentâ actually happened, my answer is that your outrage is out of calibration; your indignation should have its hair-trigger adjusted.
I deleted a slew of nice paragraphs that I couldnât quite edit together into something cohesive. It began by pointing out that this crowd has shown a propensity to mount a witch hunt at the slightest provocation, but â uh, oh, thereâs word âwitchâ in there and I went off the rails trying to find some other term because, you know, maybe thatâs another micro-aggression. Also itâs late and I want to go to bed.
So instead Iâll just say: please slow down, take a look at this incident in the grand scheme of things, and calibrate your outrage accordingly. It doesnât take much to garner huzzahs in the BB echo chamber. But to actually change the world takes care and nuance.
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(Jeez, and I said I was going to bed.)
If weâre playing swap-the-genders here, letâs start with questioning why the women on TV need to look (borderline) sexy, while the men can just look businesslike. This is closer to the core of the issue.
Yes, of course it would seem âstrange and awkwardâ if a woman had handed a garment to a male co-anchor under the pretense of put-this-on-because-you-look-too-sexy. But much of the reason that scenario would be awkward is that men on TV are not, generally speaking, being asked to pretend (at least in part) to be the objects of desire.
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Would you like to take the time to give a reasoned counterargument, or do you just want to mic-drop with a schoolyard âwell you are, too!â.
Reasoned counterargument? Youâre assuming facts not in evidence counsel.
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Women (whether they are on TV or not) are criticized for what they wear and how they look all the time. And if youâre wondering why some in âthis crowdâ are annoyed with you . . . well, I can only speak for myself, but to me your original post read as: âThis doesnât affect me, so nobody else should care about it either.â Keep your own powder dry if this doesnât matter to you, but try to understand that other people feel differently.
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I assume you mean men like this guyâŚ
I wonder if male anchors wear suits so as to be attractive to the opposite sex? Letâs find outâŚ
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+a+man+in+a+suit+sexy
Men are admired for wearing something attractive. Women are shamed for doing the same. Or criticized for not. Or ⌠well ⌠fuck it ⌠the list is just too long.
However, I have no doubt you will continue to tell yourself incredible bullshit to convince yourself that your perception of reality is accurate. You did, after all, write that ludicrous crap above.
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Uncovered hands?! SLUT! Burn the witch!
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It seems it was intended as a joke. Has anybody made the effort to actualy do a little research? No, because it would spoil the fun of viral outrage, I guess.
Here, read this:
http://lifeofliberte.com/personal-thoughts-on-the-sweater-incident-that-went-viral/
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