Feminists have long complained about negative portrayals of women in the media and popular culture. Yet feminists are not in the least concerned about the negative portrayal of men and boys. In fact they actively encourage it.
Concerted contempt for men now seems to have become pervasive in popular culture, from advertising to political talk-shows. This has very largely been as a result of negative depiction of men by the media.
The things the media present and the manner in which they are presented - notably on television and in Hollywood films - obviously have a powerful effect in the public mind. When viewers are constantly being bombarded with images of men being put down, subjected to snide 'asides', slapped around, generally treated as idiots or otherwise abused, viewers eventually come to perceive of this kind of behaviour as being normal and permissible. How do you feel?
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2007-10-17
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