PTC’s Shocking Report on Gender Based TV Violence
November 2, 2009
by The New Agenda
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This past week, a non-partisan organization called Parents Television Council produced a shocking report on violence against women and girls on television.
You can read the entire report here; but a few of the shocking findings include:
- Incidents of violence against women and teenage girls are increasing on television at rates that far exceed the overall increases in violence on television. Violence, irrespective of gender, on television increased only 2% from 2004 to 2009, while incidents of violence against women increased 120% during that same period.
- Every network but ABC demonstrated a significant increase in the number of storylines that included violence against women between 2004 and 2009.
- Although female victims were primarily of adult age, collectively, there was a 400% increase in the depiction of teen girls as victims across all networks from 2004 to 2009.
- Fox stood out for using violence against women as a punch line in its comedies — in particular Family Guy and American Dad — trivializing the gravity of the issue of violence against women.
- From 2004 to 2009 there was an 81% increase in incidences of intimate partner violence on television.
There is also a rather disturbing video montage of violence against women on television posted on the PTC website. You can find it here (apologies to our readers but video not currently in format where we could embed it onto our blog).
*reaches into her pocket and pulls out her much-worn Lefty Feminist Bingo Card*
It’s just television, and I can tell real from pretend very well, thank you! Even if I complain to high heaven when gay men, black men, or any other kind of men are unfairly, dangerously, and inaccurately portrayed on TV!
It’s like empowerfulating! Some women find it empowering to be dismembered visibly where men can jerk off over it! Are you saying that women aren’t allowed to like sex?
It’s only skinny, pretty, young women! I’m none of those things, and I’m oppressed because I never get to see images of Real Women Like Myself being tortured, raped, and disemboweled on television!
If the actresses didn’t like it, I’m sure they would just quit!
I’m sorry, the bingo card fell apart at this point. It’s been subjected to some pretty heavy use for the past decade or so …
I just saw the video montage and I want to throw up. Everyone should watch this, including Michael Moore who threw women under the bus when he claimed that Hollywood had nothing to do with real violence in Bowling for Columbine. And this has been a line that liberals have been repeating ever since. It’s bull.
Alisin, Michael Moore and most left-wing guys whack off over montages like that. It wouldn’t accomplish anything to show them. That’s what their porn looks like.
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