Parents Television Council Women in Peril

[ShyGuyInChicago]

The Parents Television Council released a study last October called Women in Peril that says that between 2004-2009 depictions of violence against women and girls have increased 120% while overall violence jumped 2%. They also found that there was a 400% incrase in violence agaisnt teen girls as well an increase of violence against women portrayed as funny in shows such as Family Guy and American Dad. Is any of this a cause for alarm or should people just choose whether they watch such shows or not?

[Amnesiac]

TV violence =/= actual violence. The shows they're citing are popular comedy shows. The humor may be degrading, but it's just a show and nobody really cares. Except them, of course, because they have no sense of humor.

They pretty much contradicted themselves by saying that overall violence went up only 2%. Television isn't the cause for violence against women, it's mainly due to women being considered the weaker gender and men having power go to their heads. It's a social issue, not an entertainment industry issue.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

TV violence =/= actual violence. The shows they're citing are popular comedy shows. The humor may be degrading, but it's just a show and nobody really cares. Except them, of course, because they have no sense of humor.

They pretty much contradicted themselves by saying that overall violence went up only 2%. Television isn't the cause for violence against women, it's mainly due to women being considered the weaker gender and men having power go to their heads. It's a social issue, not an entertainment industry issue.

So you don't think that portraying such things can desensitize people or cause people to think that violence against women is normal and acceptable. I think that depending on the context that is possible.

[Ender]

So you don't think that portraying such things can desensitize people or cause people to think that violence against women is normal and acceptable. I think that depending on the context that is possible.

99.99% of people will tell you TV is fake. Just cuz on CSI a murder is solved in an hour, is that how it always happens? NO!

Very few things on TV can be portrayed to real life.

[Amnesiac]

So you don't think that portraying such things can desensitize people or cause people to think that violence against women is normal and acceptable. I think that depending on the context that is possible.

Well, they're using Family Guy as an example. Almost everything in Family Guy is impossible to reproduce in real life. Only a child would become so intimidated by TV that they would believe something is "right" because they saw it on there, which is why it's the responsibility of the parents of the PTC to get off their asses and monitor their own children.

No educated adult would try and reproduce something they saw on TV, and it's rare when someone actually does.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

99.99% of people will tell you TV is fake. Just cuz on CSI a murder is solved in an hour, is that how it always happens? NO!

Very few things on TV can be portrayed to real life.

Well most people such as children and teens can be influenced by TV.

[Ender]

Well most people such as children and teens can be influenced by TV.

Not really, most are able to tell right from wrong by the time they even understand whats happening on the TV.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Not really, most are able to tell right from wrong by the time they even understand whats happening on the TV.

Not always. Some studies have found teens who watch TV shows with sex are more likely to have sex at a young age and be involved in a pregnancy.

[Amnesiac]

Not always. Some studies have found teens who watch TV shows with sex are more likely to have sex at a young age and be involved in a pregnancy.

Teenage sex is more about hormones and peer pressure than some erotic TV show.

[Ender]

Teenage sex is more about hormones and peer pressure than some erotic TV show.

^This

[Disco Jones]

That's probably because domestic abuse is hilarious.

[Sith Lord 13]

Not always. Some studies have found teens who watch TV shows with sex are more likely to have sex at a young age and be involved in a pregnancy.

Is it not possible that teens who are more likely to have sex are drawn to watching that kind of show? Correlation =/= causation.

[Delusion15]

Not always. Some studies have found teens who watch TV shows with sex are more likely to have sex at a young age and be involved in a pregnancy.
Your right i never wanted to have sex before Family guy came along. I was skipping down the road one day and i heard gigity gigity goo and I was at that moment a terrible person . Thank you PTC for trying to save the future generation

but seriously i really doubt TV will really influence kids that much.

it is up to the parents to decide what there children watch and even though some will still watch those shows without permission I doubt they will go out and beat women just cause they saw it on family guy

[huginnmuninn]

the fact that family guy is a cartoon usually means that people are less likely to try the stuff on there. family guy has been accuse of insulting or discriminating against almost everybody its the way the show works. get over it if you dont wanna watch it it DONT

[Sage]

I fear the PTC missed the memo a few decades ago that correlation does not equate to causation.

[Raptor22]

That's probably because domestic abuse is hilarious.

lol!!! :P :D

I love the deadpan sarcasm... :P

[Disco Jones]

I fear the PTC missed the memo a few decades ago that correlation does not equate to causation.

This depends powerfully on peoples' personal biases.