WOMEN IN PERIL: A Look at TV's Disturbing New Storyline Trend

WOMEN IN PERIL:

A Look at TV's Disturbing New Storyline Trend

PTC President Tim Winter Discusses New Report

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Women in Peril: PTC Report Finds Increase in Violence Against Females on Television

In a new special report, the Parents Television Council® found that storylines depicting violence against females are increasing and being shown more graphically and in ways that have not been seen in the history of television.

The PTC’s report, Women in Peril: A Look at TV’s Disturbing New Storyline Trend, examined fatal and nonfatal female victimizations on prime time broadcast television and found that there was a significant increase in all forms of female victimization storylines; an increase in the depiction of teen girls as victims; an increase in the use of female victimization as a punch line in comedy series; and an increase in the depiction of intimate partner violence.

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