don't believe everything you see on tv
Call me a chauvanist but as of now I am just utterly disgusted with Oprah. And no, the fact that my sis just loves to piss me off watching Oprah whenever there's an important match on has nothing to do with it.
I've never bothered to watch a single episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show, so when I caught about 30 minutes of it today before leaving for school, I have to say I just wished I could reach through the tv and slap that woman as she conspicuously made a profit out of the emotions of her audience. The segment in question was something called Oprah Investigates and the topic of the day was emotional abuse at home. Now I'm not saying that emotional abuse doesn't occur. It does and God knows it should be gotten rid of. But the way that Oprah presented it made it obvious that she didn't care to forward any insights to why this occurs or how. All she wanted was for people to watch her show.
So Oprah had a man and his wife sitting on her sofa and supposedly the wife had had enough of emotional abuse at home and had decided to come out of the closet in the most spectacular of fashions. Now Oprah claimed to have video evidence of this and showed a supposedly damning clip to the world. But the clip turned out to be very heavily edited. Having scenes and dialouge cut and pasted together such that the husband was portrayed to be hurling abuse at his wife every other moment of the day. There was almost no dialouge whatsoever from his wife and thus no insight whatsoever into what could have caused him to be so angry. Or if she happened to be just as angry and abusive. How convenient.
Also, Oprah kept forwarding a claim that an overwhelmingly large proportion of women in relationships were suffering from emotional abuse. However, she never bothered to substantiate exactly where and how she came about her statistics. Even assuming her claims are true, having such a large proportion of males being guilty of emotional abuse hints at something deeper than just your average guy being an arse. It starts to point towards the likelihood that there might be something going on here beyond human ability to control. Is there some sort of trigger for emotional abuse? Were there any similarities between these abusive marriages and how or when this abuse started? I don't know about statistics but I have a feeling most American men marry for far more than the opportunity to hurl vulgarities at their wives whenever they feel like it. If emotional abuse is really happening on such a scale in the US then there is a high chance that there are far more deep-rooted causes than just testosterone.
But of course Oprah didn't bother herself with complications of this order. The whole purpose of her show seemed to be to demonise the husband and boy what a job she's doing. The sobbing, diparate wife, the straight faced and seemingly unrepentant husband and the made-up, big-haired talk show host hurling shallow facts and accusatory questions at the husband. No wonder thousands of women tune in to her everyday.
And I am disgusted.
Makes you thinking where our world is going when some people start to believe eschewing professional help and washing your dirty linen on the Oprah Winfry Show is going to save their marriages.
I've never bothered to watch a single episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show, so when I caught about 30 minutes of it today before leaving for school, I have to say I just wished I could reach through the tv and slap that woman as she conspicuously made a profit out of the emotions of her audience. The segment in question was something called Oprah Investigates and the topic of the day was emotional abuse at home. Now I'm not saying that emotional abuse doesn't occur. It does and God knows it should be gotten rid of. But the way that Oprah presented it made it obvious that she didn't care to forward any insights to why this occurs or how. All she wanted was for people to watch her show.
So Oprah had a man and his wife sitting on her sofa and supposedly the wife had had enough of emotional abuse at home and had decided to come out of the closet in the most spectacular of fashions. Now Oprah claimed to have video evidence of this and showed a supposedly damning clip to the world. But the clip turned out to be very heavily edited. Having scenes and dialouge cut and pasted together such that the husband was portrayed to be hurling abuse at his wife every other moment of the day. There was almost no dialouge whatsoever from his wife and thus no insight whatsoever into what could have caused him to be so angry. Or if she happened to be just as angry and abusive. How convenient.
Also, Oprah kept forwarding a claim that an overwhelmingly large proportion of women in relationships were suffering from emotional abuse. However, she never bothered to substantiate exactly where and how she came about her statistics. Even assuming her claims are true, having such a large proportion of males being guilty of emotional abuse hints at something deeper than just your average guy being an arse. It starts to point towards the likelihood that there might be something going on here beyond human ability to control. Is there some sort of trigger for emotional abuse? Were there any similarities between these abusive marriages and how or when this abuse started? I don't know about statistics but I have a feeling most American men marry for far more than the opportunity to hurl vulgarities at their wives whenever they feel like it. If emotional abuse is really happening on such a scale in the US then there is a high chance that there are far more deep-rooted causes than just testosterone.
But of course Oprah didn't bother herself with complications of this order. The whole purpose of her show seemed to be to demonise the husband and boy what a job she's doing. The sobbing, diparate wife, the straight faced and seemingly unrepentant husband and the made-up, big-haired talk show host hurling shallow facts and accusatory questions at the husband. No wonder thousands of women tune in to her everyday.
And I am disgusted.
Makes you thinking where our world is going when some people start to believe eschewing professional help and washing your dirty linen on the Oprah Winfry Show is going to save their marriages.
posted by isaac! at 10:13 AM
3 Comments:
Dude, you've hit it spot on! I myself have not watched that particular episode, but I've seen some others where similar occurances have taken place. I just never looked at it through your POV before.
well that's tv for you. i like how oprah gives away cars to everyone in her audience though.
try shakk.us.
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