In the long run, one thing that we can say for sure is that drama sells. Because it is a major selling point, the marketing of shows like the “Bad Girls Club” becomes easier. This is especially true, if it is combined with sex, attractive women, and the presumption of a good time. Ultimately, you end up with a concoction of something being passed off as main stream entertainment, when it really just resembles borderline pornography. Television offers delicious meals of simple, yet highly compromised philosophy. It is served up with programming that displays the corrupted ideology that is okay for women to subject themselves to being seen as sexual commodities. It disrupts the desire to uphold their own moral code and maintain a sense of self-respect. The collaboration of the media’s ideals repudiates the collateral learning of the young women.
This is what defines the premise of rape culture. It is the idea that women are still responsible for their own actions if they are inebriated or a drug induced haze, the same as if they fully coherent. When
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One of the most powerful things a person can do is to speak out against any Injustice perpetrated against another living soul. Every revolution began with a single voice rallying the many. Maybe that voice could be you? However, the most important deterrent in my opinion is to think critically about the media’s messages on women, men, relationships, and violence. When you get a better understanding of what is going on, you become more aware and less ignorant to the subliminal messages constantly fed to you. You become more adept at making the right choices, and less accepting of what can be perceived as garbage programming. Once we realize how we allow television to dictate to us what is acceptable, we can take back that power. We are lulled in to a false sense of security, from which we must