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Originally Posted by maleficent
Sometimes it's not so much as what is said -- rather than how it's said - or how it's perceived to be said... I've come across people who say they don't watch television and the way they say it - it's like they are better than you are because they don't watch tv... They instead -- spend their life on the internet (which kills just as many braincells as tv does - if not more). It's not like the time they don't spend watching television they are out do-gooding..I'm not impressed when someone says they don't watch tv... I would be impressed if they said they spend the time they would have spend watching tv out do-gooding...
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That's what I was going to say. It puts people on the defensive because a lot of people who don't watch TV get so self-rightous about it. The school we might send our daughter to is very anti-TV. They have this crap about how their suggested at home policy is to not let kids watch TV except in small doses on the weekends. It's that OMG TV IS TEH EVOL!!11 crap. I'm not going to let her be a couch potato but I'm not going to raise her with the idea that there is something inherintely wrong with it.
It's interesting that someone compared it to vegetarians. Good comparison.