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Rape comes to mind. Men cannot get pregnant from rape, and rape of men is played for laughter on TV. Hence it is that men are raped more often than women in the USA, and no one cares.
Really? blink (I quit watching television over a decade ago with the resolve that I was going to make my own life more interesting.)
I care. :/
I have met at least two men who have been raped. They were both raped by women, though, and not while in jail. This will probably immediately raise questions about how such a thing is possible. This page explains. (See the second and third points from the bottom.)
I'd have a hard time feeling bad for a serial killer being raped, but there are a lot of people in jail for things like drug possession and the idea of those guys being raped really bothers me.
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.)