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Originally posted by mmm3587
I'm not that bent; there is plenty of reprehensible shit on tv. But I think you underestimate the extent to which tv affects societal behaviour, and this is a show that's otherwise portrayed as kind of wholesome and innocuous; kind of a family show. So Suzy Redstate from Kansas watches it and decides that she should just shut the fuck up and wait to get hit? "After all, that gay guy with the Ferraro even yells at his wife, and she's prettier and a faster runner than I am." Maybe not, but there are some topics our society does a horrendously poor job of addressing, and the fact that TAR might eventually do a little 30-second "domestic violence is bad, mmmkay" piece at the end of the episode they get eliminated on doesn't really make up for the fact that DV is one of them.
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Understood. I consider broadcast tv as akin to the music playing in a doctor's waiting room. White noise. Analyzing it earnestly seems absurd. You're critiquing the brush strokes on a velvet Elvis. The person who might be effected consciously or unconsciously by the moral lessons of reality TV was probably long ago damaged beyond repair from other much more direct negative influences (meth, gas sniffing, kicked in the head at a honky tonk, had the bible drilled into his cranium). A Mark Burnett soap opera is the least dangerous influence in his skull. You're concerned about a non-problem.
