Comments on: Violence Against Women on Prime Time Up Since 2004

By: Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic

Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:46:56 +0000

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By: jamal toussaint

jamal toussaint — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:42:35 +0000

Violence against women? How about violence against men by women? The single most prevalent trend in movies and television, over the past several years, is the depiction of the 100 lb. hot female punching out a much larger male. In almost every t.v. show-comedy, drama, cartoon, whatever- there is at least one uber aggressive female character who regularly beats up any male she desires to. Female empowerment is fine- but there are no more helpless heroines in our media now. Instead, there are countless scowling, confrontational little girls, teens, young women, middle aged women and old ladies, who delight in physically overpowering males, even when the males are pointing a weapon at them. This is a destructive message to be sending boys and girls; might is right, resolve all disputes with your fists (if you’re female- if you’re male, remember “boys don’t hit girls”).

By: Human Rights Facts (164): Violence Against Women On Television « P.A.P. Blog – Human Rights Etc.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:52:38 +0000

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:25:42 +0000

Interesting. I understand why CBS is in the lead since that’s the channel that shows all the crime scene shows like “CSI” and “NCIS”. Like other commenters I am interested in seeing the stats for crime against men on TV. Just thinking about the shows I watch that are about crime, I don’t recall it being considerably more men than women. I wonder whether this data is indicative of more crime against women being depicted or more crime in general being shown, especially as the popularity of criminal investigation shows grow.

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By: Mariaelena Gonzalez

Mariaelena Gonzalez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:58:45 +0000

Any good sociologist would look at the source of the data and conclude that the Parents Television Council data should be viewed with some skepticism given their right wing affiliation, links to religious groups, and tendencies to make hyperbolic claims. Furthermore, many of the shows rated are judged on promoting “traditional values” (which means depicting lgbt characters is out).

In the past this group has claimed the WWF program led to four childrens’ deaths and that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the worst moral television show (made the top of the list in 2002)

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:25:34 +0000

Is this because the rise of online video is causing TV (who watches TV anymore?) to become more sensational?

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:44:40 +0000

If a female action hero is fighting against a female villian and they are beating each other would this be counted as violance against 2 women?

If so, it may be just because there are more strong women in Television.

Starbucks in the new version of Battleship Galactica gets beaten, shot at and stabbed. if she would be just caring for children, she wouldn´t be. What would you prefer?

By: M Jacobs

M Jacobs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:35:14 +0000

Does anyone have numbers regarding the percentage of violence toward men that is depicted, as opposed to implied or described? I’d really like to know if we get a 92% depiction rate there.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:36:51 +0000

The FBI says that women were the victim in ~40% of violent crimes in 2004, and ~45% in 2008. The PTC finds women to be the victims of ~5% of violent crime on TV in 2004, and ~10% of violent crime on TV in 2009.

Is “normalising” it in this sense preferable to minimising it? Would it be better if television presented only men as the victims of violence? (Though I suppose it’s not far off that now anyhow.)

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:55:19 +0000

Good advice, Anne. Will do.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:41:21 +0000

Next time you link to a bunch of previous posts on a topic, could you number the links? It’s hard to keep track of which link I clicked on last when they’re all “here.”

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Verlinkenswertes (KW 45/09) | Criminologia — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:45:48 +0000

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