Everything about this article - from the writing itself to the situation it describes...

[giandujakiss]

...Makes me want to cry:

Damsels in Distress, Bozos in Heat

THE television landscape is a universe of opposites. The Travel network (get up and go someplace!) is the opposite of HSN (sit on your couch and buy stuff!). Syfy (fantastical things that haven’t happened yet) is the opposite of History (moderately interesting things that have already happened). The Golf Channel (sedentary activity watched by sedentary old duffers) is the opposite of Nick Jr. (frenetic activity watched by frenetic young children).

But one pair is more striking, more revelatory, than all the rest: Spike versus Lifetime. Guys versus Gals. XY versus XX. And with each channel offering new fare this month — Spike introduced the gross-out comedy “Blue Mountain State”; Lifetime fired up a new season of “Project Runway” — it seems a good time to compare and contrast these two cable franchises. What do their programs tell us about the sexes? What deep-seated yearnings drive the male of the species? What hopes and fears motivate the female? Is one smarter than the other, and if so, by how much?

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[ratcreature]

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...I have no words.

Though now I see clearly from what recipe the CSI franchise works, because they always mix crime with strippers, probably hoping for equal gender appeal. (Seriously last CSI:NY episode had murders among a "lingerie football" team, which had me going wtf? the whole time, and then there was that episode with the murder in the naked food play club or something like that, they always have these bizarre settings that involve barely clothed victims in some convoluted way.)

[giandujakiss]

I think that's just straight up patriarchy appeal. You'll notice that Lifetime doesn't show dead naked mutilated women - the women fight their way out of their danger. Dead naked mutilated women is straight up "misogyny sells."

[ratcreature]

True. Though it never fails to amaze me how contrived things can be made just to fit in strippers & co in somehow.

I was left wondering the whole time whether this "lingerie football" is actually something that exists in the US as entertainment or not. Then I checked it out on wikipedia and found out that they apparently did not make this up. I was even more O__o?! after that.