Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people don’t seem to notice or care how p*rny “normal” tv is. Like if you are a relatively unknown actress, you must either agree to go topless or simulate sex (even in roles playing teenaged girls) in order to land a part on an HBO show, among other similar examples. It’s such a gross industry but people just seem not to see that part of it—just the celebrity and glitz and money, impacting attitudes, fashion, and culture “on the ground”. I know no man is an island and I can’t pretend to be immune to these trickle-down influences, but I wish I could find more people who feel the same way as I do who are neither super religious nor super crunchy because I don’t fit well into either of those groups. So much misogyny and other violence towards women just totally normalized, infiltrating our screens and frying our brains.
Hard agree! I'm not a prude but a lot of shows feature pretty graphic sex scenes for no discernable reason, story wise. It's like how a lot of streaming shows have characters swearing a lot because they can get away with it, whereas on broadcast and basic cable you can't. I'm not clutching my pearls, I just think it's lazy. It's like these shows are being written by 13 yr olds who are just so excited to be able to get away with using the f-word and showing boobs.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people don’t seem to notice or care how p*rny “normal” tv is. Like if you are a relatively unknown actress, you must either agree to go topless or simulate sex (even in roles playing teenaged girls) in order to land a part on an HBO show, among other similar examples. It’s such a gross industry but people just seem not to see that part of it—just the celebrity and glitz and money, impacting attitudes, fashion, and culture “on the ground”. I know no man is an island and I can’t pretend to be immune to these trickle-down influences, but I wish I could find more people who feel the same way as I do who are neither super religious nor super crunchy because I don’t fit well into either of those groups. So much misogyny and other violence towards women just totally normalized, infiltrating our screens and frying our brains.
Agreed. Bridgerton would have been just as good without being so sex-positive that my kids were giggling with their friends about their weird old parents watching porn.
Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people don’t seem to notice or care how p*rny “normal” tv is. Like if you are a relatively unknown actress, you must either agree to go topless or simulate sex (even in roles playing teenaged girls) in order to land a part on an HBO show, among other similar examples. It’s such a gross industry but people just seem not to see that part of it—just the celebrity and glitz and money, impacting attitudes, fashion, and culture “on the ground”. I know no man is an island and I can’t pretend to be immune to these trickle-down influences, but I wish I could find more people who feel the same way as I do who are neither super religious nor super crunchy because I don’t fit well into either of those groups. So much misogyny and other violence towards women just totally normalized, infiltrating our screens and frying our brains.