Really? blink (I quit watching television over a decade ago with the resolve that I was going to make my own life more interesting.)
Yeah. It’s especially bad in media targeted at youngsters—I think Family Guy has made prison rape jokes more than once.
(I don’t watch much TV anymore either; there’s a long list of reasons, starting with apathy and torrenting, but somewhere on it appears ‘finds male rape amusing’.)
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.)
Yeah. It’s especially bad in media targeted at youngsters—I think Family Guy has made prison rape jokes more than once.
(I don’t watch much TV anymore either; there’s a long list of reasons, starting with apathy and torrenting, but somewhere on it appears ‘finds male rape amusing’.)
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.)