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For those of you who will continue to watch House next season:
WHY?
This is not intended as an attack, I swear. You know I don't pick fights with my friends (random trolls and evil people on the other hand...). But how are you justifying it to yourselves? Is it just a case of 'I've started so I have to finish'? I mean, I know some of y'all would watch snuff for to Hugh Laurie if you had to, and I can't claim I'm any different when it comes to my women.
But I'm genuinely interested to hear what the defence is to the blatant misogyny (and/or casual racism), sharp decline in writing and all-round character assassination (including, most importantly, that of House himself)? What is it that makes you say that's not how it is or it doesn't matter because. Like I say, not picking a fight but I feel like I've only seen one side of this so far and I really don't know how the people not speaking up about this are rationalising the showrunners' decisions.
I'm putting this public and enabling anon so you don't have to feel awkward about it all. Look forward to hearing any and all sides of the arguments outside of the general comm hysteria.
WHY?
This is not intended as an attack, I swear. You know I don't pick fights with my friends (random trolls and evil people on the other hand...). But how are you justifying it to yourselves? Is it just a case of 'I've started so I have to finish'? I mean, I know some of y'all would watch snuff for to Hugh Laurie if you had to, and I can't claim I'm any different when it comes to my women.
But I'm genuinely interested to hear what the defence is to the blatant misogyny (and/or casual racism), sharp decline in writing and all-round character assassination (including, most importantly, that of House himself)? What is it that makes you say that's not how it is or it doesn't matter because. Like I say, not picking a fight but I feel like I've only seen one side of this so far and I really don't know how the people not speaking up about this are rationalising the showrunners' decisions.
I'm putting this public and enabling anon so you don't have to feel awkward about it all. Look forward to hearing any and all sides of the arguments outside of the general comm hysteria.
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Hm...trying to gather my thoughts on this one.
I would never argue that what one sees (on television, in their personal environment) doesn't affect them, especially children. But how is going to be fairly individual and personal - and personal environment makes the lion's share of that.
Anyone who's using House as substitute parenting/morals development and a 'guide for life' isn't thinking straight to begin with.
And I'm trying to think - this may sound odd, but - the environment I grew up in (and continue to work in) was so 'clean' (being religious and all), that I don't know anybody (any guy) who's a right shithead. I really don't. I can't think of a single personal acquaintance who would fit that category. Because everyone had relatively decent families. Not perfect, but good. And because of that - what we all watched on TV didn't dictate our behavior. We had plenty of other models to look up to. I mean, my father loved Archie Bunker on All In the Family. I find him kind of nasty. My dad loved Benny Hill - I've always gotten an 'ick' factor from that. But my father was the kindest, gentlest man you could know, and most certainly nothing like the characters he liked to watch on tv.
Just because something may include triggers for one person doesn't mean that it should then be 'cleansed' of that trigger for everyone else for whom it's not a trigger to begin with.
I hate horror movies. I don't think they're good for the psyche of those who watch them. Should my local cinema refuse to show them until they bring down the level of gore and violence? Should I picket the theaters that do show them?
It starts getting into dicey territory, when you begin to want to censor what kinds of things 'should' be shown or not in any given program.
Which isn't to say that you shouldn't talk about it. That's how we all learn and grow.
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Unfortunately, I think tv has become our children's babysitter more and more!
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It has, but then we come to *expect* it to be the babysitter, and decide that it needs to be the babysitter according to *our* terms. We try to micromanage it, and bitch it out for failing at what we perceive to be its 'job'....when perhaps, we ought to be supervising our own damn kids. ;-)