Yeah. It’s especially bad in media targeted at youngsters—I think Family Guy has made prison rape jokes more than once.
Ohhhhh. That I can believe. Not to say laughing at prison rape is okay, it isn’t, it’s just that when you made that comment, I envisioned people finding all male rape funny.
:/ I wouldn’t be surprised if some people do. So that still bothers me.
What have you gotten out of quitting TV? In addition to obvious things like more time for learning and self-improvement, it also helped my self-esteem to stop exposing myself to commercials designed to make me feel like I need a bunch of products to be “good enough”.
In addition to obvious things like more time for learning and self-improvement, it also helped my self-esteem to stop exposing myself to commercials designed to make me feel like I need a bunch of products to be “good enough”.
That was never really a problem for me. I’d say the time thing is the problem. Watching anime or movies on my laptop isn’t as enjoyable as on a TV, so I do less. (I waste a ton of time on IRC and websites, absolutely, so it’s not as if I replaced “watching TV” with “making the world a better place”—but I’d say those’re a better waste of time than TV.)
Ohhhhh. That I can believe. Not to say laughing at prison rape is okay, it isn’t, it’s just that when you made that comment, I envisioned people finding all male rape funny.
:/ I wouldn’t be surprised if some people do. So that still bothers me.
What have you gotten out of quitting TV? In addition to obvious things like more time for learning and self-improvement, it also helped my self-esteem to stop exposing myself to commercials designed to make me feel like I need a bunch of products to be “good enough”.
That was never really a problem for me. I’d say the time thing is the problem. Watching anime or movies on my laptop isn’t as enjoyable as on a TV, so I do less. (I waste a ton of time on IRC and websites, absolutely, so it’s not as if I replaced “watching TV” with “making the world a better place”—but I’d say those’re a better waste of time than TV.)