Posted by alexandra_k on May 20, 2018, at 17:45:53
In reply to Re: do know what's wrong, posted by alexandra_k on May 20, 2018, at 17:25:37
I've been thinking a lot about televison as a way of educating the masses.
I knew about people being read their rights from television. That's what you learn off of any cop show - right? That the police need to read people their rights. That you should ask for a lawyer.
And I know about what informed consent looks like (in part) from seeing how doctors explain things to patients (in competence appropriate way e.g., to children, to intellectually impaired people, to adults) from televion.
Only... Other people seem to have watched such shows? I guess they have... But they didn't get these messages from them...
Maybe they haven't seen such shows...
I guess we have a greater proportion of New Zealand shows, now, and less overseas ones. Shortland Street educates our people on how gossipy health receptionists get to be. How you better suck up to people and cajole them on demand or they have the power (and right) to make your life a living hell as a consequence. How arrogant surgeons and hunky cleaners will woo the same nurse and the cleaner will win out because he's a nicer person but the surgeon is an arrogant tw*t with the maturity of a toddler... These are the ways we educate our citizens...
I've been watching Shameless... And parts of it ring home. The way people(?) are about sex. Except they've made all the women agressors... So removed the element of male cooercion that is much (much much) more typical. The emotional manipulation...
And Frank is far too well groomed.
Teeth. That's the thing. And the smell of urine /whacky male feromones... That's not there. The fact that those things bring out a deeply visceral reaction of disgust and recoil in anyone who is presented with that who isn't high or drugged into a stupor. You don't want to kiss people who have foul breath and vomit all over them... You just don't.
The other day there was this guy smoking around my bike. Construction. A lot of the Auckland awful is coming here. I think they sometimes have prisoners (or ex prisoners) working construction. You can smell them. And the way they band together and oggle the passers by while they are waiting for... Whatever. Anyway, I was a bit freaked / intimidated that there were two of them hovering around but then one of them stepped away. And I made a decision to say something politely to the guy and smile so it would be less awkward about the proximity of him being right in front of my bike while I got on it and started the motor.
Anyway... I'm pretty sure he wasn't a constructin person even though he was dressed as them. Probably engineer? I don't know. His teeth were perfect and white, his glasses weren't government issued, the whites of his eyes were white and his whole manner...
You can tell really rather a lot, so briefly...
I'm not sure what is up with the 'Chicago Polytech' thing. The storyline didn't make sense. One minute he's got a funded offer for MIT (yeah, right) and the next he's studying English Literature and Critical Theory at Polytech for a 4 year degree...
Anyway...
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