"John Templeton"  wrote in message
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>
> howldog wrote:
>> On 21 Mar 2005 06:52:09 -0800, "bluesmama"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >howldog wrote:
>> >> Sandra Bullock to Matt Laurer this morning:
>> >>
>> >> "I needed you to play a guy who was man enough to
let a woman beat
>> >him
>> >> up".
>> >>
>> >> gag. no more of your movies, ever, Sandra.
>> >>
>> >> Shame on you.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >What a truly disrespectful thing to say.
>> >
>> >Another name to add to the list beside Jennifer Lopez.
>>
>>
>> Laurer is such a pansy. Anybody with a functioning set of nuts might
>> have shot back, are you woman enough to play a character who lets
>> herself get beaten up by a man?
>>
>> of course the hate mail would start instantly and Laurer would be
>> fired three minutes later.
>>
>> thats the extent of double standards in this country. women hit men,
>> its ok, its entertainment.
>>
>> whacked beyond belief.
>
> Yeah, it's seen as funny when a woman causes something bad to happen to
> a man (in commercials, say), but when it's the opposite, the writers
> are misogynistic.


It's interesting that the two Doug's, JWB and Bill in C.O. have no comment
though, isn't it?




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