Posts by Sam F
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Quality thread necromancy. Pity nobody cares anymore, or they'd still be here.
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And can I just take a minute to say that I'm really hugely touched by the profound civility of this thread? It's an issue on which I know I can be brittle, and this is without a doubt the nicest domestic violence discussion I've ever been a part of.
I've enjoyed it as well. If only this wasn't basically the only NZ blogsite where a thread on DV doesn't always turn into poo slinging.
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... um, was that actually necessary?
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Only once a week for the ass drivers? That hardly seems fair.
Wow, that could be made into a brutal double entendre.
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From memory, all the male ALAC ads feature a drunk person doing something stupid. The Lisa ad differs because it features a drunk person having something done TO them. That's where it falls off the rails I think, as well as pissing off a section of its target audience.
Which is what I realised very belatedly after having made my post, and not as crisply as you've put it either. Cheers.
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There are the 'if you get drunk you'll get raped' ads, those are great...
My position has long been that ALAC should run an ad showing men in a similar situation - walking home drunk, getting abducted or attacked. I'm sure it's not an impossibly rare situation.
It'd go a long way to emphasising the underlying intent of the ads, which is I'm pretty sure is "if you get boozed out of your mind you're placing yourself at serious risk of [X]". I understand the point Emma makes about the 'Lisa ad' and have seen it made elsewhere, but I still don't subscribe to the belief that ALAC seriously intended women or anyone else to stay off the sauce entirely or suffer the consequences. Any more than they intended for men to avoid boozy barbecues on the pain of Inevitably Throwing Kids at Walls.
Presumably rape was chosen for the ad as a powerfully negative outcome for a risky situation, although perhaps more thought could have gone into whether that specifically was the best choice for the Lisa ad. A lot of awful things including rape can happen to people staggering home in the dark. Unfortunately the only place I can imagine seeing a PSA in which a drunken man gets raped on the way home would be in Eating Media Lunch , which probably says a lot about the social messages I've inadvertently digested. (If you're bored feel free to pick my post about to try and work out the source of this mental conditioning, but don't make too much of a mess or Russell will have to sweep it all up, okay?)
I really feel for the makers of these ads. They are almost certainly highly educated people who are aware of all these representational issues, but through the requirements of government funding they're still faced in the end with having to design the ads to try and produce the greatest reduction in social cost per advertising dollar - and no, I have no idea how in the hell they would work that out either. Don't suppose there's an informed PAS member to help out?
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A few months after Ferrit launched, a PR person asked if I could have a look at the site and perhaps write something. So I had a look, and it was a weirdly desolate experience. I couldn't work out why I'd use this website and what I wrote wasn't positive.
Wot no linkage?
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But are librarians creative enough?
I was looking for Victory over Death, a great eighties Colin McCahon documentary, in the Auckland City Libraries system recently. The Central City library has a copy on VHS. I have no VHS player. Did the library have VHS players, I asked? As it turns out, nope, just DVD systems.
This is going to expose my copyright ignorance, but what would prevent Auckland City Libraries from loading such films onto DVD, a format most people can actually still use? What's the status of copyright with regards to public-good material locked up on a dying format?
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Granny gets down wif the yoof - in a caption for a pic of a telly, of all things:
It's in your living room, sucking your electricity.
I saw what they did there...
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For instance, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus is a good brief read
Hell, that's a great brief read. It might even get me writing again this evening.