Sunday, May 4, 2008
Barkha Dutt calls the IPL cheerleaders "faceless bimbettes"
Barkha Dutt, the Christiane Amanpour of India, calls the cheerleaders of IPL "faceless bimbettes".
A curiosity-
how does she know they are 'bimbettes', any or all of them?
Or is cheerleading by definition something that only(or mostly) 'bimbettes' do?
Does anybody find this tarring of a whole profession offensive, not to say demeaning of the dignity of women?
What if we said that TV 'news' media is full of arrogant scoundrels?
Tempted as we might, we won't say it for, unlike Ms.Dutt, we do not wish to put down a whole a profession even if it gives great rewards to the dishonest purveyor of information and to the sensationalist(see my post below). The cheerleaders on the other hand have to make a honest living by the dint of their efforts and I doubt if they are paid a fraction of what Ms.Dutt rakes in for, among other things, showing a contempt for them.
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I do. My response <a href="http://albernegedanken.blogspot.com/2008/05/barkha-dutt-and-cheerleaders.html
Original comment date- 2008-05-29. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.html
I do. My response
http://albernegedanken.blogspot.com/2008/05/barkha-dutt-and-cheerleaders.html
Original comment date- 2008-05-29. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.html
Emma, you do what?
Your response is quite good.
Thanks Gurmeet. I am a software development architect by profession.
Original comment date- 2008-05-30. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.html
Emma,
sorry but I think I rephrased my question in a confusing manner.I didn't mean to enquire about your profession, though you were kind to respond. I merely wanted to ask what you meant by "I do" in your first comment.
Original comment date- 2008-05-30. See here- http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/drudgery-of-importing-haloscan-comments.html
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