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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Violence against women, female teens, surges on TV
For extra ick factor, check out:
Sexist violence sickens crime critic
I don't always take the Parents Television Council very seriously, but it's hard not to get freaked out about stuff like this sometimes, especially when it's juxtaposed against news stories about violence against real women and girls. What does it do to our minds when we see these kinds of images day after day?
(Subject line from Edgar Allen Poe)
Incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. television has increased by 120 percent in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as victims rising by some 400 percent, the Parents Television Council said in a report on Wednesday. ... The report suggested that violent acts against women and teen girls was increasing at rates that far exceed the two percent increase in overall violence that the study found existed on TV between 2004-2009.
For extra ick factor, check out:
Sexist violence sickens crime critic
She said that when a female corpse recently appeared on the jacket of a crime-writing colleague's new book, the author pointed out to her publisher that the victim in the story was actually a man. Mann said the publisher replied: "Never mind that. Dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don't. Nor do dead children or geriatrics."
I don't always take the Parents Television Council very seriously, but it's hard not to get freaked out about stuff like this sometimes, especially when it's juxtaposed against news stories about violence against real women and girls. What does it do to our minds when we see these kinds of images day after day?
(Subject line from Edgar Allen Poe)