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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:54 PM Mar 2015

Mexican Mayor Says Women Should Be Watching Soap Operas, Not The News

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/mayor-women-novelas_n_6934894.html

The mayor of the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua is taking heat for urging a crowd of women to watch soap operas instead of the news during a speech delivered Sunday.

During an event to mark the Day of the Domestic Worker, Javier Garfio Pacheco of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party led a raffle for a plasma-screen television and went on to praise them, saying they're the best units for watching soap operas -- or “telenovelas” -- during breaks from work.

“No news -- because the news isn’t so good,” Garfio Pacheco said in the speech, while shaking his finger at a crowd of female domestic workers. “Watch soap operas instead and above all good soap operas."...

“On top of insulting the intelligence of our citizens, this attitude reinforces the national policies established by President Enrique Peña Nieto, by implying that government officials are more interested in offering entertainment than the education that the Mexican people have a right to,” said the PAN’s General Secretary Adriana Díaz Negrete, according to Peruvian daily El Comercio.

Ay, Chihuahua!

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Mexican Mayor Says Women Should Be Watching Soap Operas, Not The News (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP

All the television news I've ever seen *IS* a soap opera. hunter Mar 2015 #1

there's more truth in soap operas then the news lame54 Mar 2015 #2

By George, I think I've got it! KamaAina Mar 2015 #5

The Young and the Voteless lame54 Mar 2015 #6

Did he specify whether said women should be wearing shoes when performing their Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2015 #3

the sad part of such a sexist comment is... Takket Mar 2015 #4

hunter

(38,328 posts)

1. All the television news I've ever seen *IS* a soap opera.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:17 PM

Mar 2015

And not a nice one.

In my opinion EVERYONE would be better off reading the news from trusted sources, thus leaving television to actual soap operas and other forms of entertainment, not the twisted "reality television" and overt propaganda that claims to be news.

lame54

(35,324 posts)

2. there's more truth in soap operas then the news

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:21 PM

Mar 2015

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. By George, I think I've got it!

Reply to lame54 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:53 PM

Mar 2015

Parody news like The Daily Show done in a soap format. "As The World Burns"!

lame54

(35,324 posts)

6. The Young and the Voteless

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:54 PM

Mar 2015

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)

3. Did he specify whether said women should be wearing shoes when performing their

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:46 PM

Mar 2015

"womanly" duties? What in the name of ever-loving fuck??!!

Takket

(21,626 posts)

4. the sad part of such a sexist comment is...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 02:51 PM

Mar 2015

with as bad as "journalism" is these days, you really are better off watching soap operas. Man or woman.

But seriously, a woman is perfectly capable of deciding for herself what she wants to watch. she doesn't need a man telling her. does this guy order for his wife at the restaurant too?

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