There are a couple of those networks on cable, and I get them mixed up... Which one is the "I hate men" network, and which one is the "All men are scum" network? I'm not married, so I'd appreciate it if you'd ask your wife to get them straight for me. Thanks!
Mark
Well, my wife (who really doesn’t watch that much TV either) usually switches between Lifetime and Hallmark. Hallmark isn’t strictly for women — the chickflicks on there are the kind of sweet, old-fashioned romances that you really don’t expect to see anyplace anymore. Rather wholesome, actually. Lifetime has several types of films: the psycho woman — often a nanny/babysitter — who is after someone else’s husband; the psycho woman who steals someone else’s baby; the man who has several wives and households going at once, and it doesn’t turn out well for him in the end; the “my daughter is a tramp” film; and the “disease of the week” film. They are all very predicatable and, if I happen to be watching, at the 10 minute point I will give my prediction about how it is all going to turn out. Usually I am right.
The one I found interesting was called “My Little Assassin”, in which a young American woman in the 1960’s goes to Cuba to help with the revolution and gets knocked up by Fidel. The Cubans sedate her, induce labor, deliver the baby, and ship her back to the U.S. She is told the baby died. Some years later, the CIA gets hold of her, tells her the truth, and recruits her to kill Fidel. She doesn’t, of course; just as she is about to pull the trigger, Fidel tells her: “You cannot keel Fidel. No one can keel Fidel.” That could be a “men are scum” movie. So could the Drew Peterson film.
Lifetime seems to be pretty evenhanded in dealing with the psychopathologies of men and women. To my knowledged, my wife has never watched We, and I haven’t either — so that could be more a man-hating, men-are-scum channel.