Comments on: I was partially correct! http://kevinchiu.org/archives/i-was-partially-correct Things are only impossible until they're not. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin Chiu http://kevinchiu.org/archives/i-was-partially-correct/comment-page-1#comment-48 Kevin Chiu Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:05:00 +0000 http://www.kevinchiu.org/blog/?p=198#comment-48 Yeah, it was lighthearted blog post.<br/><br/>Anyways, now that you bring up the issue, we have a chicken and egg problem. Do people like fashionable things because they're told to like them, or do they like things without being told, and then fashion professionals pick up on that? Yeah, it was lighthearted blog post.

Anyways, now that you bring up the issue, we have a chicken and egg problem. Do people like fashionable things because they’re told to like them, or do they like things without being told, and then fashion professionals pick up on that?

]]> By: Chris Govella http://kevinchiu.org/archives/i-was-partially-correct/comment-page-1#comment-47 Chris Govella Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:53:00 +0000 http://www.kevinchiu.org/blog/?p=198#comment-47 your magazine rack observation is partly correct....mass media supposedly reflects the public's interests in their content, ....but also I think there are larger forces at work, such as marketing and advertising, and a general bias towards selling items and selling images of beauty/attractiveness etc. I'm not entirely convinced that by putting women and men on the cover of 'women's interest' section magazines equals 'women are interested in men and women' so much as 'the people who write these magazines think/say women are interested in men and women'.<br/><br/>of course i may be reading too deeply into something that is merely a lighthearted blogpost. your magazine rack observation is partly correct….mass media supposedly reflects the public’s interests in their content, ….but also I think there are larger forces at work, such as marketing and advertising, and a general bias towards selling items and selling images of beauty/attractiveness etc. I’m not entirely convinced that by putting women and men on the cover of ‘women’s interest’ section magazines equals ‘women are interested in men and women’ so much as ‘the people who write these magazines think/say women are interested in men and women’.

of course i may be reading too deeply into something that is merely a lighthearted blogpost.

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