Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Maybe I'll get cooking questions!

Ecogeoman and I watched this lame game show, Duel, for an hour and a half while waiting for an oil change at Honda tonight (an oil change should not take 90 minutes. they did it for free). We typically wouldn't watch that kind of show, but it was what was on the waiting room television. Apparently, two contestants engage in a duel by answering a series of lame trivia questions. The winner chooses the next opponent from a preselected group. The cool thing was that the first 5 or 6 contestants were all women (we did not see the first 3 or 4 play). The first time we saw someone pick a new contestant, she said how she hoped a woman would win so she choose another woman. This new woman won the duel, then picked a man. When it was announced that this man had a "photographic memory" she said, "uh-oh. well, maybe I'll get a cooking question and win!" WTF? A cooking question? She wasn't a professional chef or anything. Can't she just feel confident as a person dueling another person? By this point there were several nauseating women vs men jokes. I don't think I'll be tuning in to Duel again. Not that I would have anyway.

3 comments:

EcoGeoFemme said...

I'll add that this woman is probably very bright and capable, and may or may not be regretful of what she said on tv. I'm sure that if I went on national tv, I'd say something totally asinine. My commentary was more directed at the pervasive sterotyping that made its way onto this stupid show than at this individual. Sorry Duel Lady.

Unbalanced Reaction said...

But you know, with the writer's strike, what else do we have to watch? I'm going to have to start reading books or something (oh, the horror!). ;)

EcoGeoFemme said...

It's true. Please can the strike be over before Lost runs out of scripts? Please?