by Herbie J Pilato
In the last few months, ABC’s female-geared morning chat-fest, The View, has been experiencing a changing of the guard of sorts (or at least of hosts – i.e. Joy Behar and Elizabeth Hasselbeck have left the show).
All of which has inspired a few questions:
Do men “watch TV,” while women “view television”? Is it more feminine to speak fancier and more masculine to utter opinions in shorter sentences? Is that how that works when it comes to small-screen screening in particular?