Comments on: McGinnis: TLC’s ‘Honey Boo Boo’ sneers at sterotypes http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/21/mcginnis-tlc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98honey-boo-boo%e2%80%99-sneers-at-sterotypes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mcginnis-tlc%25e2%2580%2599s-%25e2%2580%2598honey-boo-boo%25e2%2580%2599-sneers-at-sterotypes Toledo's Largest Sunday Newspaper Sun, 19 May 2013 11:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Toledo Newspaperhttp://www.toledofreepress.com/wp-content/themes/tfp/images/tfp_logo_small.gifhttp://www.toledofreepress.com15746The Toledo Free Press is a weekly newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. It was founded in 2005 by Thomas Pounds. By: Don Lee http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/21/mcginnis-tlc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98honey-boo-boo%e2%80%99-sneers-at-sterotypes/comment-page-1/#comment-496611 Don Lee Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:28:50 +0000 http://www.toledofreepress.com/?p=45061#comment-496611 @Adam: I didn't read the column as disdainful of the family itself, but as disdainful of the show for presenting its subjects simply as the butt of a joke they likely aren't in on. Third-from-last paragraph is key here. @Adam: I didn’t read the column as disdainful of the family itself, but as disdainful of the show for presenting its subjects simply as the butt of a joke they likely aren’t in on. Third-from-last paragraph is key here.

]]> By: Jeff McGinnis http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/21/mcginnis-tlc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98honey-boo-boo%e2%80%99-sneers-at-sterotypes/comment-page-1/#comment-496572 Jeff McGinnis Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:50:55 +0000 http://www.toledofreepress.com/?p=45061#comment-496572 Adam- In what way do you feel the show celebrates the Thompsons instead of mocking them? I saw cynical producers holding up their subjects for scornful sniggering. What do you see that makes you feel otherwise? I felt I made it plain that my disdain was not toward the subjects of the show, but how the show depicted them. They deserve better than this. -Jeff Adam-

In what way do you feel the show celebrates the Thompsons instead of mocking them? I saw cynical producers holding up their subjects for scornful sniggering. What do you see that makes you feel otherwise? I felt I made it plain that my disdain was not toward the subjects of the show, but how the show depicted them. They deserve better than this.

-Jeff

]]> By: Adam http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/21/mcginnis-tlc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98honey-boo-boo%e2%80%99-sneers-at-sterotypes/comment-page-1/#comment-496507 Adam Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:15:17 +0000 http://www.toledofreepress.com/?p=45061#comment-496507 If you have disdain for the resilience, beauty, love, bad choices, and good humor of people who don’t look so promising at face value and instead choose to interpret them through your own biases, then I pity your lack of insight. If you have disdain for the resilience, beauty, love, bad choices, and good humor of people who don’t look so promising at face value and instead choose to interpret them through your own biases, then I pity your lack of insight.

]]> By: Ron Gerwin http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/21/mcginnis-tlc%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98honey-boo-boo%e2%80%99-sneers-at-sterotypes/comment-page-1/#comment-495972 Ron Gerwin Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:14:11 +0000 http://www.toledofreepress.com/?p=45061#comment-495972 I think Mark Twain first said, "you can't underestimate the taste level of the American public," or was it Ed Sullivan? I think Mark Twain first said, “you can’t underestimate the taste level of the American public,” or was it Ed Sullivan?

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