Ok I’m not sure what people have been blogging about, but if I’m correct I have yet to explain the comparison between Spiegel’s book to present day TV. The similarities are extraordinary, someone could easily look through women’s magazines and suggest they’re TV shows based off the material in them. From all the how to programming of today’s TV ranging from cooking to creating, I’d go so far as to say present TV is based off women’s magazines. Sure there are “guy friendly” stations, but compared to all the women based stations/shows, it’s not even close. Epley talked about the saying “from the angel in the house to the heaven of suburbia,” and how it dealt with the beliefs that women’s beliefs are more important than men’s, and I an honestly say a lot of TV these days beliefs that too. Women are all over TV telling men about everything form how to romanticize your lover to even sports interviews! There are shows all over TV about how to lose wait, how to find that special one, and also how to dress to impress. Basically, it all can be read about in women’s magazines, making me assume TV can be studied this way and Spiegel had the right idea. If I really think about it, companies advertise to women really hard because if a women is persuaded to believing she really needs the product or whatever, she’s going to get her significant other (who happens to be a guy) get it for her. Win over the women, the man with slowly but surely being coming along for the ride. The episode of Honeymooners was a great example of how a woman is convinced she needs something and to get it she needs to persuade her man to get it for her (typical women…). But anyways, Spiegel’s opinions can be seen in today’s society and like Epley said the book is timeless.
PS we should watch more Honeymooners episodes…
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