On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote:
> Original-monologue-is-talent belief is probably yet another outcome of the > de-emphasis on arts education in this country for maybe the past 30 years > or so. As opposed to the long high-art tradition of clog dancing. I am trying to get my head around the argument that a beauty contest is the arbiter of high culture. Again, I could literally not care less (I believe that is the literal way to use that phrase) who won Miss America. But I don't think there is any universe in which I could agree that, of all the "talents" on display there, a young woman choosing to communicate dramatically how using her skills as a nurse to reach out to and find the humanity in an old, deteriorating man actually helped her find and value her own voice as a young professional woman deserves to be the one to ridiculed on some silly morning show aimed at middle aged women. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
