T V - characters shown...

a cold put me down for few days, so stayed at home with a family i was with during this phase of travel and there was nothing else but watch lots of TV... whatever the kids, elders, everyone there watched. 

there were serials, movies, advertisements, chat shows, talent shows... everything you can imagine with TV...

everything had lousy stereotypical characterizations..  worst of all, the way women are shown in visual media..  as having low EQ...

in almost all TV visuals, they are clingy, caring to the level of suffocation, self-sacrificing, religious, with blind beliefs on one hand..  and

on other hand, negative women characters are shown as  - jealous, aggressive, cruel, self-centered, psycho-paths.  

the overdose of such images keep repeating in all the forms - movies, serials, adverts and so on..   its almost as if, they are self-sacrificing goody-goody person, or the other extreme, of morally corrupt, evil personas...


mythological serials among these stand out in terms of discrimination.  women gods (godesses) are shown as dependent, cry-babies or uncontrollably aggressive...  and every time need a sensible male god to guide them... if even women gods are shown like this, what can be expected from mere mortal woman?

'taming of the shrew' is another popular concept, which keeps repeating (especially in south indian movies), and at times shocking dialogues (against female equality) are mouthed by most popular hero's..  these hero's are worshiped and their posters adorn every nook and corner of big and small towns of these areas..  


i could not find even one single level headed, assertive, balanced female character... from small kids to grandmothers are spoon fed on these visuals day and night...

and i guess there is no end to this kind of cribbing against TV..  i had been away from TV for almost 3 years and i had to go through a few days to realize why its called 'idiot box'... 

i fear to imagine, a future generation, brought up in this idiotically low EQ personalities.. 

i have no idea what can be done.   but, if censorship is used, it will be argued as against creative freedom.  but what can be done about such trash? there must be some way.. ??