Comments on: Beauty and the Geek Redux http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Trish http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-40857 Trish Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:37:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-40857 <p>I love the show... I think it's funny! I can't wait to see season 2 because I went to middle school with Ankur. We had math class together and I was always in constant competition with him. He was a year younger, so I'll have to admit that he was smarter! hahaha....</p> I love the show… I think it’s funny! I can’t wait to see season 2 because I went to middle school with Ankur. We had math class together and I was always in constant competition with him. He was a year younger, so I’ll have to admit that he was smarter! hahaha….

]]> By: Em http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39903 Em Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:31:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39903 <p>I think it's also worth pointing out that the smart guy/ditzy girl dynamic is probably a lot more entertaining than the smart girl/meathead guy dynamic. Try to picture it, if you will: plain but really smart girls are paired with thick-necked Miller-Lite-swilling "dumb jock" types. Ditzy girls often take the "pity" stance towards nerdy guys ("awww, he's so cute and hopeless, and I'm a nice person if I'm nice to him! ::giggle::"), and the nerdy guys think...well, think the ditzy girls are hot (didn't the nerdy guys in your high school have the weird habit of putting the class hot girl or head cheerleader on this big ridiculous pedestal, wanting to "save her" and all that bs?). On the other hand, the jock guys would probably just mercilessly make fun of the plain girls and the smart girls would basically have no patience for the stupid guys and decide that such idiocy is not worth their time. Neither team member would be remotely interested in pleasing the other, just on the $250,000, and they'd be stuck with the guy thinking she's a dog and the girl thinking he's a waste of oxygen for weeks on end.</p> <p>...actually, I'd watch that.</p> I think it’s also worth pointing out that the smart guy/ditzy girl dynamic is probably a lot more entertaining than the smart girl/meathead guy dynamic. Try to picture it, if you will: plain but really smart girls are paired with thick-necked Miller-Lite-swilling “dumb jock” types. Ditzy girls often take the “pity” stance towards nerdy guys (“awww, he’s so cute and hopeless, and I’m a nice person if I’m nice to him! ::giggle::”), and the nerdy guys think…well, think the ditzy girls are hot (didn’t the nerdy guys in your high school have the weird habit of putting the class hot girl or head cheerleader on this big ridiculous pedestal, wanting to “save her” and all that bs?). On the other hand, the jock guys would probably just mercilessly make fun of the plain girls and the smart girls would basically have no patience for the stupid guys and decide that such idiocy is not worth their time. Neither team member would be remotely interested in pleasing the other, just on the $250,000, and they’d be stuck with the guy thinking she’s a dog and the girl thinking he’s a waste of oxygen for weeks on end.

…actually, I’d watch that.

]]> By: hector http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39380 hector Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:28:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39380 <p>In Vancouver, B.C., where I live, and the vast majority of "East Indians" are Sikhs, nobody, but nobody, stereotypes them as geeks and nerds. The stereotypes (which are decaying, as the children of immigrants become upwardly mobile) are dump truck drivers, lumber mill workers, and gangstas.</p> <p>As for ugly women on TV, seems to me Roseanne did pretty well for herself. It's not that the market isn't there for average-woman content. The problem, I think, is the inculcating of desire. Advertisers want shows that make women think they're not measuring up, so they'll buy the many high-markup products that are designed to make them "feel better about themselves." Advertisers do not want shows that tell women it's OK to be average, or fat, or plain.</p> In Vancouver, B.C., where I live, and the vast majority of “East Indians” are Sikhs, nobody, but nobody, stereotypes them as geeks and nerds. The stereotypes (which are decaying, as the children of immigrants become upwardly mobile) are dump truck drivers, lumber mill workers, and gangstas.

As for ugly women on TV, seems to me Roseanne did pretty well for herself. It’s not that the market isn’t there for average-woman content. The problem, I think, is the inculcating of desire. Advertisers want shows that make women think they’re not measuring up, so they’ll buy the many high-markup products that are designed to make them “feel better about themselves.” Advertisers do not want shows that tell women it’s OK to be average, or fat, or plain.

]]> By: chick pea http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39184 chick pea Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:06:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39184 <p>someone emailed me askign why greys anatomy wasn't real..</p> <p>um.. nobody watches surgeries and fights for them... residents don't go sleeping around with their attendings.. (well they might, but it's not wiht all this drama).. seriously.. all surgical residents care about... is finding enough time to sleep and drink after their work day :)</p> <p>scrubs on the other hand, are seriously the situations we face daily.. the random fights wtih the staff, nurses, and cleaning people... to thinking of random scenarios while checking patients.. that is the true reality....</p> <p>okay, off to the airport... happy holidays!</p> someone emailed me askign why greys anatomy wasn’t real..

um.. nobody watches surgeries and fights for them… residents don’t go sleeping around with their attendings.. (well they might, but it’s not wiht all this drama).. seriously.. all surgical residents care about… is finding enough time to sleep and drink after their work day :)

scrubs on the other hand, are seriously the situations we face daily.. the random fights wtih the staff, nurses, and cleaning people… to thinking of random scenarios while checking patients.. that is the true reality….

okay, off to the airport… happy holidays!

]]> By: sparky http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39168 sparky Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:17:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39168 <p>hmm maybe...though screaming feminists (and screaming people of color, etc)have changed aspects of society that at the time seemed unshakable (slavery, the right to vote)</p> hmm maybe…though screaming feminists (and screaming people of color, etc)have changed aspects of society that at the time seemed unshakable (slavery, the right to vote)

]]> By: Reincarnation http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39163 Reincarnation Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:49:28 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39163 <blockquote>....... I was in post election mind-numbness mode, but the joys of letting your brain melt away while watching this show, priceless.......</blockquote> <p>Excuses excuses</p> ……. I was in post election mind-numbness mode, but the joys of letting your brain melt away while watching this show, priceless…….

Excuses excuses

]]> By: taz http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39153 taz Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:05:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39153 <p>Aww, man. I loved the show. I am embarrassed to say, I don't think I missed one show last season. Mind you, I was in post election mind-numbness mode, but the joys of letting your brain melt away while watching this show, priceless. Plus, I got some sort of sadistic pleasure in seeing pretty girls not be able to spell.</p> <p>There was a desi guy on the last season's show, right?</p> Aww, man. I loved the show. I am embarrassed to say, I don’t think I missed one show last season. Mind you, I was in post election mind-numbness mode, but the joys of letting your brain melt away while watching this show, priceless. Plus, I got some sort of sadistic pleasure in seeing pretty girls not be able to spell.

There was a desi guy on the last season’s show, right?

]]> By: a guy's guy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39146 a guy's guy Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:40:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39146 <p>sparky, it will never be the other way around...don't you know anything about tv? ugly male characters are sympathetic and deserve a chance, ugly women are...well, just unwatchable.</p> <p>case in point, i read an la times article a while back that said nbc was optioning a show called "plain jane" (basically the opp. of average joe) but decided to drop it b/c they realized no one wants to watch a show about ugly girls unless there's an extreme makeover involved, and that's already been done ad nauseum.</p> <p>i think men and women agree with me on this: ugly women don't sell and have no place on tv, but ugly overweight guys like drew carey and that king of queens dude should be given their own tv shows. that's just the market. no screaming feminist can change that. ;)</p> sparky, it will never be the other way around…don’t you know anything about tv? ugly male characters are sympathetic and deserve a chance, ugly women are…well, just unwatchable.

case in point, i read an la times article a while back that said nbc was optioning a show called “plain jane” (basically the opp. of average joe) but decided to drop it b/c they realized no one wants to watch a show about ugly girls unless there’s an extreme makeover involved, and that’s already been done ad nauseum.

i think men and women agree with me on this: ugly women don’t sell and have no place on tv, but ugly overweight guys like drew carey and that king of queens dude should be given their own tv shows. that’s just the market. no screaming feminist can change that. ;)

]]> By: sparky http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39140 sparky Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:08:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39140 <p>so on this show, the women are the "unintellectual" ones while the men are all "brainy"? or are there also geeky women and beautiful men playing?</p> so on this show, the women are the “unintellectual” ones while the men are all “brainy”? or are there also geeky women and beautiful men playing?

]]> By: Pattie Kaur http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/20/beauty_and_the/comment-page-1/#comment-39139 Pattie Kaur Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:55:28 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2764#comment-39139 <p>i'll take Vishwanath Anand. camren is just scray.</p> i’ll take Vishwanath Anand. camren is just scray.

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