Why are there so many rapes on TV?

Maclean's ^ | May 11, 2014 | Jaime Weinman

[bravo whiskey]

Seems every female detective on tv has been abducted or raped.

[2banana]

Why are there so many rapes on TV?

Because muslims have invaded the west?

[cripplecreek]

TURN good solid history based patriotic TV that doesn't make good and evil an ambiguous conceptual thing.

[chesley]

I wonder what the changes in law would be.

Even a rapist is entitled to the presumption of innocence at trial.

On the other hand, a violent rapist should never again see the light of freedom.

And rape has to be rigorously defined. No accusations from regret. And knowingly false accusations should be rigorously prosecuted.

[HangnJudge]

Cause it raises ratings

Game of Thrones is a BIG HIT
and it’s full of unnecessary
sexual encounters, rape, sadism

[dfwgator]

But is it ‘rape’ rape?

[minnesota_bound]

Hollyweird thinks this is normal behavior.

[dfwgator]

Will gays start complaining that there aren’t enough homosexual rapes on TV?

[Alex Murphy]

Seems every female detective on tv has been abducted or raped.

You should see what happens to them in comic books: Women in Refrigerators

[Netz]

All forms of violence in entertainment have soared in the last 40 years. Funny though, how Hollywood with their Pacifism and anti-Smoking Liberalism show enormous tons of destruction and violence by cigarette smoking cool folks.
I can’ see films anymore with a hunk or babe holding a pistol with two hands outstretched (or in futuristic Science Fiction films, Laser gun) blaming away. In the same way, I can't watch Manhattan, Chicago or LA being obliterated by robots, aliens, Godzilla, the fog, meteorites, the cold, Tsunamis etc., just can't stand this death wish Hollywood has for America and her icons (like a sinking statue of Liberty - a real favorite) or the white House blowing up. Just can't do it anymore...

[ifinnegan]

Why does anyone watch any of this garbage.

It’s like drugs.

[IrishBrigade]

TURN good solid history based patriotic TV that doesn’t make good and evil an ambiguous conceptual thing.

...right you are...Turn is indeed very good...

[ifinnegan]

Don’t assume people will know what show you are talking about from the photo.

[rickmichaels]

Yup. This was my favorite growing up:

[PapaBear3625]

Why are there so many rapes on TV?

Why is raping of women on TV a big deal, while the killing of men on TV is not?

[driftless2]

Just another plot device to get ratings. Usually there is revenge on the rapist which gets the audiences juices cooking in expectation.

Reminds me of all the quicksand stories in old westerns and dramas. Whenever the writers ran out of ideas, they'd have an episode where the hero falls into quicksand...which was all over the place, wouldn't you know. Women getting raped is somewhat the same. The writers are getting desperate for ideas. And Downton Abbey has one of the women sexually involved with a visiting black american jazz musician. I bet that happened a lot in England in those days. (snicker)

[dfwgator]

You mean you didn’t cheer when the Martians blew up Congress in Mars Attacks!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Forcible rape should be a capital offense. And if you were to survey the number of women around you, I believe most men would be shocked to know how many have been raped over the years. And the number would be even higher except so many women are too embarrassed and ashamed to admit they were raped.

[longtermmemmory]

not if you are a director of xmen...(btw accused not conviction)