[quote] (12-03-2013 03:09 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
[quote='KorbenDallas' pid='592996' dateline='1386077520']
Most Hollywood movies and television shows are full of patronising lectures that teach toxic fantasy messages, and since women have an unhealthy relationship to fantasy and are highly-suggestible to both imitating fantasy behaviour and basing their expectations upon it, I find 'entertainment' a large part of the problem we're dealing with,[/quote]
Funny, because one of the only shows I like is HOMELAND, which features a crazy bitch who's a CIA agent. She gets pregnant from some barfly she seeks shelter with while on the run, and I've only seen her fight in an extreme situation on the street where she had the advantage of surprise and temporarily disabled a male attacker. They never have her king-fu-ing healthy males, which I agree is usually very unrealistic.
She accomplishes what she wants to do with her social skills and sexual appeal, and I find it fairly realistic except they'd have fired her long ago for being so crazy. But fiction generally has to have some unreality or it would really be crushingly boring like real life is for most people.
Imagine being a CIA agent watching a house all day. All fucking day, sitting in a car watching for someone going in or out of a house. How can you have more than 4-5 seconds of that 8 hours in a TV show without losing the audience?
[quote='KorbenDallas' pid='592996' dateline='1386077520']
Most Hollywood movies and television shows are full of patronising lectures that teach toxic fantasy messages, and since women have an unhealthy relationship to fantasy and are highly-suggestible to both imitating fantasy behaviour and basing their expectations upon it, I find 'entertainment' a large part of the problem we're dealing with,[/quote]
Funny, because one of the only shows I like is HOMELAND, which features a crazy bitch who's a CIA agent. She gets pregnant from some barfly she seeks shelter with while on the run, and I've only seen her fight in an extreme situation on the street where she had the advantage of surprise and temporarily disabled a male attacker. They never have her king-fu-ing healthy males, which I agree is usually very unrealistic.
She accomplishes what she wants to do with her social skills and sexual appeal, and I find it fairly realistic except they'd have fired her long ago for being so crazy. But fiction generally has to have some unreality or it would really be crushingly boring like real life is for most people.
Imagine being a CIA agent watching a house all day. All fucking day, sitting in a car watching for someone going in or out of a house. How can you have more than 4-5 seconds of that 8 hours in a TV show without losing the audience?