My one cent worth...
Posted by JLSeagull on Tue, 03/09/2004 - 9:41pm.
Regarding the trading cards, the second-runner up will get her own trading card!? That doesn't really speak well for the prestige of the set does it? Not surprised, though, that the story came out of Dallas. When I was living there, they opened a women's history museum. Unfortunately, the reaction most of the people I know that went was that they were previously under the impression that more women had made more such-related contributions to society. Even the news report I saw, covered by a woman reporter, had an aire of disappointment as she read from the names included on some sort of Top 100/Wall of Fame list. On the other hand, a list of world's worst women would be drastically under-sized in comparison as well. It's the need for lists, and therefor playing cards, that might be the problem. Maybe a new approach to viewing everybody, not just women, is necessary...something beyond the idol-worshipping, fame-focused autonomocentric-agoraphilia we use now. Not that praise-hungry mob-mentality isn't good for some things....after all, when award shows win awards from their own award show doesn't everybody win?
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