Very good points. I was actually thinking about South Park earlier, too.
What I find really odd about this is that rape, something also very common, is laughed at constantly on television, but in any serious television show rape is still a big source of shock. Because of that the same people who laugh at rape jokes tend to still take rape very seriously (personal observation over the years), but bring up child molestation, and it's like people don't know how to feel- most dramas barely touch on it, and the ones I've seen focus more on what it's like to be the parent of a molested child than what it's like to be the child or an adult survivor of child abuse. This blows my mind- if you can get so aggravated over rape, how can you not show some shock over child abuse?
I don't think shock-factor shows are really trying to offend or silence anyone- they probably don't even realize how much more unfair it is with child abuse victims, those who are still children especially, because they lack loud advocate voice. They probably don't notice because they've seldom heard it. :(
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Date: 2011-01-25 11:57 pm (UTC)What I find really odd about this is that rape, something also very common, is laughed at constantly on television, but in any serious television show rape is still a big source of shock. Because of that the same people who laugh at rape jokes tend to still take rape very seriously (personal observation over the years), but bring up child molestation, and it's like people don't know how to feel- most dramas barely touch on it, and the ones I've seen focus more on what it's like to be the parent of a molested child than what it's like to be the child or an adult survivor of child abuse. This blows my mind- if you can get so aggravated over rape, how can you not show some shock over child abuse?
I don't think shock-factor shows are really trying to offend or silence anyone- they probably don't even realize how much more unfair it is with child abuse victims, those who are still children especially, because they lack loud advocate voice. They probably don't notice because they've seldom heard it. :(