{"id":2271,"date":"2010-02-02T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/bozos-in-heat\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:33:06","slug":"bozos-in-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/02\/bozos-in-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bozos In Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/arts\/television\/31sexes.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: black; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\"><nyt_headline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \">Damsels in Distress, Bozos in Heat<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n<p class=\"image\" id=\"wideImage\" style=\"padding-bottom: 1px; margin-top: 12px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/01\/31\/arts\/31sexes-span\/articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" style=\"border-width: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; border-style: none; margin: 0px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; color: #909090\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Chris Gash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px\"><nyt_byline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \"><\/nyt_byline><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/search\/query?ppds=bylL&amp;v1=NEIL%20GENZLINGER&amp;fdq=19960101&amp;td=sysdate&amp;sort=newest&amp;ac=NEIL%20GENZLINGER&amp;inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More Articles by Neil Genzlinger\" style=\"color: #000066\" target=\"_blank\">NEIL GENZLINGER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE television landscape is a universe of opposites. The Travel network (get up and go someplace!) is the opposite of HSN (sit on your couch and buy stuff!). Syfy (fantastical things that haven\u2019t happened yet) is the opposite of History (moderately interesting things that have already happened). The Golf Channel (sedentary activity watched by sedentary old duffers) is the opposite of Nick Jr. (frenetic activity watched by frenetic young children).<\/p>\n<p>But one pair is more striking, more revelatory, than all the rest: Spike versus Lifetime. Guys versus Gals. XY versus XX. And with each channel offering new fare this month \u2014 Spike introduced the gross-out comedy \u201cBlue Mountain State\u201d; Lifetime fired up a new season of \u201cProject Runway\u201d \u2014 it seems a good time to compare and contrast these two cable franchises. What do their programs tell us about the sexes? What deep-seated yearnings drive the male of the species? What hopes and fears motivate the female? Is one smarter than the other, and if so, by how much?<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/arts\/television\/31sexes.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Times Damsels in Distress, Bozos in Heat Chris Gash By\u00a0NEIL GENZLINGER THE television landscape is a universe of opposites. The Travel network (get up and go someplace!) is the opposite of HSN (sit on your couch and buy stuff!). Syfy (fantastical things that haven\u2019t happened yet) is the opposite of History (moderately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}