So, “Glee” did a school shooting episode. My first reaction was “Of course it did.”
glee
pop culture
“The Simpsons” has had staying power – 500 episodes worth of it – more than almost any other television show. And that says something both about “The Simpsons” and the people who are watching it.
sexual assault
If I never see the words "seduced," "had sex with," "affair," "forced her to have sex," and so on in a headline about a rape case again, it will be too soon.
pop culture
A question I get asked a lot as someone who talks about pop culture from the perspective of a critic who roots my work in social issues, namely: does pop culture (and television in particular) have a responsibility to educate the audience?
british tv
Keep your So-Called Life. The character I most identified with as a teen was unrealistic, dead, and thoroughly awful.
grimm
There’s a lot of violence against women in the show, and it’s specifically violence against helpless, hapless women who need to be rescued by the nice police officers. I get quite enough of that sort of thing in my pop culture, thank you.
