Play or Be Played by Tariq “K-Flex” Nasheed

Author:Tariq “K-Flex” Nasheed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A FIRESIDE BOOK
Published: 2004-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ironically, these three entities are the main ones that claim to look out for the best interests of women. Let’s break them down and analyze the real effects they have on women’s issues.

Media Capitalism and Commercialism

(Television shows, magazines, videos, and commercials)

Major media corporations are, first and foremost, businesses for profit. They understand that women are major consumers, but they also realize that women are “emotional spenders.” And one of the most pervasive rules of business is that “the customer is always right.” Since women are their most reliable customers, these media outlets have a vested interest in telling women that everything they do in life, no matter how nonproductive or even destructive it may be, is perfectly fine. If you look at daytime television, especially talk shows, you see that they are very careful not to offend or even criticize the female viewing audience. And they always keep the underlying front of “empowering” women. But if you take a good look at daytime television, are they really trying to empower you ladies?

Check out some of the themes on these popular talk shows, and ask yourself, what’s really empowering about this. Telling a mother that her drug-addicted, out-of-control teen daughter just needs a makeover is not empowering.

Telling women who are extremely overweight, and who have obvious eating disorders that may lead to severe health issues in the future, that they are “fat and all that,” is not empowering. Encouraging three- and four-hundred-pound women to perform striptease routines on a daytime talk show is not empowering.

Ladies: You can’t be a four-hundred-pound stripper. You might start swinging around on a pole, and mess around and have a heart attack.

Other daytime shows let young girls think that it’s OK to sleep with ten guys, and not know who their baby’s daddy is. This is not empowering. Daytime commercials that tell women that the best way to predict their financial future is to contact the psychic hotline are not empowering. Telling women to have a spirit medium contact a dead relative so they can tell you if you are going to get married soon is not empowering.

See, there is profit in dysfunction. It’s not in the best interest of these media outlets to tell women the truth.

Because the truth is empowering.

And if women really became empowered, these media outlets wouldn’t be able to sell women on all the BS that’s splattered across television each day. These outlets promote dysfunctional behavior, then turn around and provide their solutions to remedy the problems that they themselves help perpetuate.

So instead of telling women who are obese the truth—that overeating usually stems from emotional or psychological issues that they need to deal with—they tell women that they need to try the “forty-eight-hour miracle diet,” or any other one of the quick-fix weight-loss remedies that contribute to the $50-billion-a-year diet product industry.

If you look very closely at those paternity shows on TV, you’ll see they never promote birth control for women. You will always hear them say, “If the man wore a condom, he wouldn’t be in this situation.

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