My goodness, even Labour’s FOOD SHOW has to be saturated in sex with objectified women
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November 5, 2014 at 4:01pm
And they’ve called it Gaxin. Do they even know what gaxin was? Or is that a reflection on the kind of food they’re going to teach their viewers how to cook.
“We shall soon enjoy Rebecca…” – revolting. Really progressive and liberal, I must say. And completely chauvinistic: obviously written by a man thinking all others watching are either straight men or lesbians. Do they want straight women to watch or not?
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One show for men who can’t boil an egg.
Fakkarni fir-riklam li jġibu fuq it-Taljan…Hot Time. u ajma ma…b’hekk iridu jiġbduhom it-telespettaturi! Ħamallaġni tal-prima kwalità flimkien ma’ tagħsida tat-tiġieġ għax hekk jgħidu li kien ikun qisu il-gaxin, dak l-ikel li jifdal wara li jieklu tas-servizzi mħallat flimkien biex jagħmlu soppa jew gaxin.
The Labour Party insults the memory of dead poor Maltese people that had could not afford wholesome fresh raw food and had to buy British Army and Navy dinner plate leftover swill for their daily sustenance.
May I point out that gaxin was not plate leftover food but cooked food left over in the pots and pans.
It is a wonder how a small detail can be used to change perception.
Yes, mizbla being the other one.
Apparently in Malta it was plate left-overs most of the time.
No, It was left over food for the plate scrapings of canteen dinners from the British armed services, sometimes combined with pot leftovers, sold to Maltese contractors as supposedly “pig swill”.
It all was thrown into large metal containers with a lid that resembled English milk churns.
The contractors sold it by weight to poor Maltese people, who would queue up at certain known times in the day to buy this wretched stuff, piled on newspaper sheets with the odd smoked cigarette butt thrown in.
The choice stuff was selected by the contractor and sold for a higher price by weight, but realistically, day by day, the customer never knew what he was getting for his money.
This choice “gaxin” did not come along too often, usually Christmas dinner or the Easter plate special when servicemen mostly ate in restaurants and omitted the service food, hence the greater quantity of choice canteen pot leftovers.
I got this information about “gaxin” many years ago from my late father, who was there in person witnessing all this first hand.
Like me, my father was what is known today as a “foodie”, and cooking and perfectly describing the food of Malta was his passion.
Perhaps Gaxin refers to the PL MP’s and the whole Partit tal-Labour.
This is very offensive for post-war Malta
“Women as Objects” was the intended title for a book.
Sorry Daphne, but I don’t see this as objectifying. There is way much worse stuff out there. No need to go that far, take a look at some of Italy’s shows from a few years back.
[Daphne – Exactly. Of course it is objectification. Would a man be portrayed like this? No, not unless he were super-effeminate (natch). And quite frankly, I don’t think you should speak unless you know what sensible women are up against on a daily basis because of the drumming-home of this culture and attitude.]
“And quite frankly, I don’t think you should speak unless you know what sensible women are up against on a daily basis because of the drumming-home of this culture and attitude.”
I don’t know. Care to elaborate?
[Daphne – No, I wouldn’t care to elaborate. I have been writing about this subject for 24 years. And I live it on a daily basis. As does every woman in this country who refuses to go through life metaphorically cock-sucking every man she has dealings with. So wouldn’t it be easier to be like the women who do? No, it would be terrible. No wonder so many women on this island can only get by on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills.]
Well I have been alive for only 20 years, and I started reading the stuff you write just a year ago when one of your posts about Norman ‘psycho’ Lowell caught my eye, so excuse me here.
Oh, and that made me realise that there is at least one person in Malta who is more open minded than most of the population and isn’t afraid to speak the truth, even though some people wouldn’t think twice to call her names in public just because they don’t agree with her.
But yes, I understand you now and you’re right, except maybe the last bit, that seems a little exaggerated to me, but hey, I’m only 20, I’ve yet to meet half of the type of people we meet in society so my knowledge on some things is limited by the fact that I wasn’t around to experience them when they were happening the most.
[Daphne – Apologies, then, because I thought you were older.]
Getting back on topic, PL does seem to use this ‘cute lady’ tactic just like in this video though. Perhaps to be more ‘liberal’? Because I see it as a tactic to obtain cheap views from sex-starved creeps who want to learn how to boil an egg.
With that being said, nothing tops ‘Fil-Kċina ma’ Farah’. Compare it to the other cooking shows in Malta and you’ll see why.
Yes of course Painter, and the keyword now is ‘deberlusconizzare l’Italia’.
Why everyone fell for reality portrayed in his channels as something to emulate and aspire to is, making them the prime political instruments, remains a phenomenon to analyse.
It’s still not clear whether the bling is a direct result of sets and costumes designed to distract or vice-versa.
Judging by the size and expense concentrated on certain programmes airing on ONE this season, Kalamita not being one of them, they’re going post prime time viewing.
The intention is to mix and blur reality and glamour. Render politics boring. Unless we subscribe to this soonest, Labour’s here to stay.
Risposta f’waqtha, Daphne. Prosit.
Bhal ma jaghmlu t-Taljani.
She probably heard the joke about men’s blood supply only being capable of servicing one driving force at a time. Since she will not be offering much for the area between the ears, she had to elicit some response from the nether region.
So the Italians do it don’t they? Not to insult the Italians but I seem to recall reading that the Benny HIll show was a flop in Italy before someone had the ‘bright idea’ of putting slots with ample bosomed ladies in beween the clips. It then did well in Italy. No wonder Berlusconi managed to cling to power for so long if they have to see some bosom before they can laugh at a joke.
That was his recipe for Drive In, satire and boobs. The show launched Italia 1.
To think its equivalent targetting the same age group today is Le Iene, scathing, ironic, self deprecating and whose prototype of the showgirl is Illary Blasi, whose fans tear her to shreds if she doesn’t manage the look.
I’ll say one thing – they talk to the camera as though they are addressing toddlers or mentally challenged children. And in a lot of ways, they are.
She forgot another verb at the end: Trid tkun taf tilghab, tidhak, tiekol u T*NHEX*
What is this story with local women thinking that scanty whoreish looks are neat or sexy?
There is only so much you can stretch iced buns, for the masses we are offering the promise of flesh.
Wasn’t it also the Labour Party newspaper which started featuring ‘interesting’ photos some time before the election.
If they had reproduced ‘the scream’ they would have been more spot on but you could not expect their readers to appreciate that could you?
My late father who was in his thirties during the second world war always spoke about the gaxin with a certain fondness. He loved it (as he loved food in general), though in his days there was nothing like the variety we now take for granted.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/11/05/joseph-muscat-jichad-rapporti-li-se-jkun-qed-jaghmel-reshuffle/
Mghadux cool u jilqa lil kulhadd kif kien qabel lelezzjoni
Any person attracted to follow the programme by such exhibitionism must be very hard-up or with the IQ of an immature adolescent.
“Objectified women”? Really??!!
It’s a game show… presented by Rebecca
Rebecca is the host because she is capable of entertaining a crowd. Just because she’s sexy doesn’t mean the program is full of sex. Last time I checked she’s not hosting with nipple tassels.
Why don’t you host a tv show Daphne maybe you’ll become the next sex symbol which we could objectify? :D
[Daphne – You don’t know much about sex if you think it’s all nipple tassels. I’m 50, Illuminated, and when I was 25 I had pretty much the same attitude I do now, even though I laid them all flat in my hotpants. It worked like a charm, and I never had to pretend I liked anyone. You see, the thing you girls don’t understand is that in a sea of simpering young women, it’s the young woman who doesn’t simper who stands out, and you can best your last cent that she’s going to be the one the men are interested in, while the others bitch about and wonder why. You should try it some time.]
I’m sorry, but Rebecca isn’t sexy.
There’s this vulgar assimilation between explicit soliciting and the word sexy.
A woman is sexy when she doesn’t feel she has to do all that. And that’s invariably when she’s at ease with her intelligence and its exercise.
Makes the game intrepid.
Sorry then if Rebecca isn’t sexy how is the program sexy?
Everyone has their own style.
Rebecca like dresses and heels while I prefer cigarette pants and a pair of brogues – I also wear heels mind you.
Who is the sexiest of us two?
There is no answer. And she should be free to wear whatever she is comfortable in.
There are men who like girls with dresses and there are men, like my boyfriend who points out if I am wearing to much eye-liner.
A lady doesn’t ONLY have to wear dresses to be sexy.
ANYONE can be sexy.. because it’s all about sex appeal.
[Daphne – Yes, that’s what Rita Spiteri the Desert Princess thinks too.]
In my childhood, immediately after the post-war years, I could come across a small gang of poor men waiting on shore for a barklor and his pots of ‘gaxin’ straight from the naval vessels in Marsamxett harbour.
The messy, nasty and unsavoury concoction would sell for 3 pennies for a bowl, plus a few more for a slice of bread pudding.
Later on in life, during Mintoff’s regime, I remember the old creature lamenting his own childhood days when the Maltese were so poor and ill-clad as to be daily living on dollops of ‘gaxin’ while the British servicemen lorded it over them.
Is that what One TV is trying to re-create?
One TV should show how following 16 years of Mintoff power, the Bormla area where Mintoff lived remained in the very bad state that it was.
Mintoff never upgraded his own but instead left them in a state of poverty because that was the best way to get votes, from the poor.
Ahna partit tal-fqir. So Mintoff’s aim was to keep us poor.
Immediately after the war, when Mintoff was Minister responsible for reconstruction, the Cospicua area was thoroughly re-built. My father had property there, and it was to the Minister that one had to resort for assistance.
Mintoff decried the lack of Marshall Aid moneys which were denied to Malta (read differently, please) and left his hometown people (read differently, please) even poorer than before.
Zejziet… Chris Fearne, take note.
I guess they’d go straight into Cyrus-type revenge and jealousy mode if the rage had to switch to outrageous swinger instead.
How would they handle that? as in, the whole posse of them at Super One?
I so don’t want to know. But the type is so – you know – suited.