Comments on: The Bechdel Test and Denise Richards http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/01/the-bechdel-test-and-denise-richards/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Response to the Bechdel post | the Hathor Legacy http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/01/the-bechdel-test-and-denise-richards/#comment-208143 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:29:17 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/01/the-bechdel-test-and-denise-richards/#comment-208143 [...] Seth Roberts, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, suggested a new show you might want to check out in response: I came across this test after spending a pleasant morning analyzing data while listening to the first six episodes of Denise Richards: It’s Complicated which I found on YouTube. (Such as part 1 of Episode 1.) The show consisted mainly of two named female characters — Denise and sister, Denise and friend, Denise and daughter — talking to each other about something other than a man. [...] […] Seth Roberts, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, suggested a new show you might want to check out in response: I came across this test after spending a pleasant morning analyzing data while listening to the first six episodes of Denise Richards: It’s Complicated which I found on YouTube. (Such as part 1 of Episode 1.) The show consisted mainly of two named female characters — Denise and sister, Denise and friend, Denise and daughter — talking to each other about something other than a man. […]

]]> by: mike kenny http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/01/the-bechdel-test-and-denise-richards/#comment-200725 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:32:46 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/08/01/the-bechdel-test-and-denise-richards/#comment-200725 oh that's interesting. i do the same thing when i'm editing (which i don't like doing)--i listen to shows or podcasts. i was doing some editing while basically listening to episodes of dexter yesterday and it makes the editing so much easier. i've wondered if politicians could benefit from having their own reality shows. john mccain seems to get a lot of his likability from making himself very available to journalists. what if he had a reality show while on campaign that ran regularly on his website. would that increase public liking of him? i suspect so, but i'd imagine it would have to be kind of a 'warts and all' kind of show, rather than some idealizing-the-person show. this i suspect would apply to lots of politicians, though perhaps some people are so unlikable that getting to know them makes you like them less--i imagine they are a minority though. oh that’s interesting. i do the same thing when i’m editing (which i don’t like doing)–i listen to shows or podcasts. i was doing some editing while basically listening to episodes of dexter yesterday and it makes the editing so much easier.

i’ve wondered if politicians could benefit from having their own reality shows. john mccain seems to get a lot of his likability from making himself very available to journalists. what if he had a reality show while on campaign that ran regularly on his website. would that increase public liking of him? i suspect so, but i’d imagine it would have to be kind of a ‘warts and all’ kind of show, rather than some idealizing-the-person show. this i suspect would apply to lots of politicians, though perhaps some people are so unlikable that getting to know them makes you like them less–i imagine they are a minority though.

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