Man, what the hell? Seriously? Most people are completely stupid. Utterly lacking in both intelligence and education.
While this has been a long-running gripe of mine, there is one specific example that I wish to highlight today.
Online Interviews, Self-Guided:
If you are a member of the media, responsible for sending information to a market, you want to wrap that information in an appearance that your market will respond to. In this case, 93X's Hot Chick of the Day. You want me to listen to your radio station, so that I will hear your advertisements, and buy the products that have paid you for more revenue. One of your marketing techniques to get me to listen to your station is the Hot Chick of the Day. Every morning at 9:00am, you send me an email that has a single picture of what you consider to be a Hot Chick. Whether or not this is an accurate title for the lady depicted is a topic for another blog.
As part of this gimmick, you include the models interview answers, perhaps to blow smoke up feminist asses that say, "This is objectifying to women." While I don't have an opinion one way or the other when it comes to this particular objectification of women, I do actually read the interview. Here is a sample:
How about ambitions? What are your goals? Gosh so many goals! I guess on that im currently working on is getting hired on to the fire department. I just finished my EMT Basic now working on my Internediate. Thats were you get to stick people with needles! Ha ha, scary thought huh. After I finish my "I" then it begins the hunt to test for fire.
I have a problem with this. "I guess on that im currently..." Did you mean, "I guess one that I'm currently..."? How about "Internediate"? "That's where"? "Scary thought, huh?"?
And that's just ONE answer, out of maybe thirty questions.
Some will likely raise the argument that, "When you're that pretty, you don't need to be smart to make money." And they could very well be right. She probably makes very good money. However, beauty is only skin deep. What happens when she's in a car accident that leaves a scar across her cheek, or when she ages a bit and things start sagging? All of a sudden, your primary money-making option has left, leaving you without income or intelligence. You are now unable to earn a living, because you wasted the opportunity to learn something like how to communicate with anyone in a professional manner.
Now, as upsetting as it is that people can be this stupid and get away with it is one thing. The truly reprehensible thing here is the marketing managers at 93X. You fail. Hard.
You piss off the intelligent of us who not only want to see skimpily clad women on a daily basis, but who want to pretend that there might be some brains behind the sultry eyes. It is not hard for anyone with very little education to go into those interview answers, and rewrite them to be accurate, intelligible responses.
By posting this garbage, you're not only propagating the stereotype of "stupid model", but you're sending the message to everyone (models, viewers, listeners) that being stupid and lazy is okay.
It has never been okay. It is not okay. It will never be okay.
While not everyone was given the same processing power, everyone is capable of learning and applying... But they're too damn lazy to do it.
