Sexual Predators’ Propaganda Through Television

What if I told you that sexual predators are, through television, desensitizing us viewers to sexual predation and conditioning us to believe that sexual predation can be an object of amusement?

Whether we want to admit it or not, we are greatly influenced by what we see on television. In fact, if we deny that what we watch on television affects us, our denial only increases the affect. It is only when we become consciously aware of the affect that television content has on us that we can take the steps to mitigate its affects.

Television has the power to manipulate viewers into doing things that they would otherwise not do. This is why commerical advertisements are so effective in getting us to buy products. If they were not effective, the companies would not be continuing to spend millions of dollars making more of them.

The film industry attracts sexual predators

Sexual predators tend to prey on women and children. The film industry is where people go when they want to appear in TV commercials, movies, sitcoms, etc. Hence, many physically attractive women and beautiful children flock over to the film industry for a chance to appear in one of these commercials/movies/sitcoms.

I had seen someone bring up a good point that where the sheep are plentiful, the wolves will follow. Since the film industry is an industry where attractive women and beautiful children are plentiful, it attracts pedophiles and other sexual predators.

Television production, as a profession, is predominantly male as discussed in this article. Former child actors have testified that in the film industry, pedophiles are everywhere. Not only does the film business give sexual predators a chance to be around prospective victims in large numbers, it also places sexual predators into a position of great power as TV producers. In TV production, competition for a part in a movie or sitcom is intense. Many actors and actresses are trying to make it big, and TV producers have the power to make or break someone’s career.

What most viewers are not aware of is that TV producers, many of whom are sexual predators, use their talent and power to put content onto the television screen that presents sexually predatory behaviors as being normal and even comical.

What kind of a world would sexual predators want to live in?

Television producers determine what goes on the TV screen, and what they choose to put onto the TV screen is a reflection of the kind of world that they would want to live in. They are not stupid. They know that what they put onto the TV screen may be fantasy at first, but the more influence it has on viewers, the more the fantasies become reality.

It does not take much more than common sense to figure out what kind of a world sexual predators would want to live in. Below are some characteristics of such a world:

• Sexual predation seen as a normal behavior and even viewed as comical
• Women’s self esteem is dependent on attention from men
• Women are property, specifically public property
• Stigma against feminism
• Blaming the victim
• Oversexualization of people
• Glorification of sexual promiscuity
• Weak family ties
• No behavioral standards for men, only for women

Obviously, sexual predators would like to live in a culture that sees sexually predatory behaviors as being normal, and even comical. In addition, women are easier to prey on when their self esteem is tied to their sexual appeal. Granted, women throughout history have always wanted to be beautiful and pleasing to men. In the olden days, however, a respectable woman would perceive unsolicited physical touching by male strangers as offensive. She would not want the man to mistake her for being a prostitute. Rather, a respectable woman would expect a man to behave as a gentleman and see her as more than just a sex partner.

Sexual predators want a world where women rate themselves solely on their level of sexual appeal. In such a case, sexual advances are more likely to be welcomed, even when they are inappropriate. After all, why would an inappropriate sexual advance be bad if the woman’s self esteem is dependent on it?

Sexual predators want to have as much power over their victims as possible. When women are seen as property, the women are in a position of lower power. However, if women are privately owned by their fathers/husbands, they would be more protected and hence be harder for sexual predators to access. Therefore, sexual predators will have easier access to their victims when their victims are viewed as public property. When women are public property, they serve as a source of entertainment to any men in their vicinity.

In recent years, there has been some degree of stigma against feminism. Indeed, the modern day feminist movement has been bringing across some toxic messages, which will not be discussed here. However, this stigma against feminism can be used as a manipulation tool to get women to be more tolerant of bad treatment targeted at women. At the very least, it could make women more hesitant about standing up to bad treatment targeted at women, for fear of being called the F-word.

Sexual predators are less likely to be held accountable for their actions when they live in a culture that blames the victim. As is discussed in the article Blaming the Victim, cultures that blame the victim essentially send a message to the perpetrator that the perpetrator can victimize people in certain ways as much as they want and can rest assured that they are safe from accountability. While they have a field day victimizing people as much as they want, the victim gets blamed instead.

Culture is not as likely to view sexual predators as the monsters that they are when people are over-sexualized. Oftentimes, culture views people as sexual beings, as if their purpose on this planet is to maximize their degree of sexual appeal and engage in sexual relationships. When people view themselves as sexual beings, sexual predation does not look as monstrous. On the other hand, when people view each other as being spiritual, intelligent, complex and multi-dimensional beings, anyone who preys on people in a sexual manner appears as a monster.

Sexual predators also like to live in a culture that normalizes sexual promiscuity and even stigmatizes celibacy. In a sexually promiscuous culture, people will often have sexual intercourse within hours of meeting each other. In such a culture, when people go for periods of time without engaging in sexual activity, they feel bad, as if they have failed at life. Such a culture is more likely to embrace sexual predation as a normal behavior.

Sexual predators are generally bad people, which means that they will be prone to engaging in other evil behaviors besides just sexual predation, such as bullying. Therefore, sexual predators, most of whom are male, would like to live in a world where behavioral standards for men are as low as possible, but where there may still be behavioral standards for women. In this way, the horrible behaviors of sexual predators will be more likely to be tolerated. In this world, there may still be behavioral standards for women to follow. For example, this world may expect women to always be nice, and to always smile. Women also would be expected to bend over backwards to avoid the remote possibility of hurting anybody’s feelings. Indeed, people who have a fear of hurting other people’s feelings are generally easier to manipulate.

What kind of television content would promote this kind of a world?

To endorse certain behaviors as being okay, it is not enough to just show characters exhibiting these behaviors. Producers need to add to the scene subliminal messages, which state that the behaviors are okay, or at least not a big deal. They can do so by showing the other characters exhibiting little to no reaction to the behaviors. The victim also would not react with outrage, and may even react positively to the bad treatment.

Humor is a very effective means of delivering subliminal messages. You may notice that many of the TV commercials are humorous. Similarly, TV content that shows acts of sexual predation in a humorous light will be more effective in getting viewers to accept sexual predation as normal.

Pedophilia, however, is difficult to show in a humorous light without backlash from viewers. The public is well aware that any sexual relationship or sexual attraction between an adult and a child is abnormal. However, viewers do accept as normal sexual relationships between grown men and grown women. Therefore, sexually predatory behaviors towards grown women can be shown in a humorous light without as much backlash from viewers. Indeed, TV producers can fool viewers into believing that a man is simply pursuing a woman, and just being a man, when in reality the behavior may be sexually predatory in nature.

Television producers have tried to show pedophiles in comedy scenes. This video and this video show clips from the show Family Guy of the character, Herbert, who is a pedophile and is sexually attracted to young boys, including Peter’s son, Chris. The scenes show Herbert actively pursuing young boys with the intent of getting sexual entertainment, and the scenes are made out to be funny. Many fans, however, thought that the show was crossing the line. Evidently, it is hard for TV producers to get away with presenting pedophilia as being funny.

Women serve as the optimal target group for sexual predation as it is depicted on television, especially when this sexual predation is depicted in a humorous light. TV producers can insert content that sends across subliminal messages, which state that it is okay to sexually prey on women — and with sufficiently low public scrutiny. Some messages may attempt to contribute to the stigma against feminism. One way of doing this is by portraying feminists as being eccentric and easy to laugh at. This scene presents an example.

Television producers can easily oversexualize the characters and glorify sexual promiscuity. They could oversexualize characters by dressing many characters — especially female characters — in sexually provocative attire. They could glorify sexual promiscuity by showing characters engaging in sexual intercourse within hours of meeting each other, and having a long line of sex partners over time. Of course television producers can easily avoid showing the spread of disease and the emotional grief that comes with sexually promiscuous lifestyles.

To stigmatize celibacy, a producer could show characters, who have had a “long” celibate period, as being unhappy and feeling like they are failing at life. Meanwhile, the characters with the most sex partners are happy and living “great lives”.

Promotion of low behavioral standards for men also is relatively easy. Nothing promotes low behavioral standards for men like a smart, attractive, kind woman falling in love with, and marrying, a selfish, egotistical man who is an overall mediocre person. Some scenes could even show good male behavior being condemned. A classic example is a scene where a man shows concern for someone’s feelings, and is called a homo by his friends.

If producers wanted to tell female viewers to value themselves based on sexual attractiveness — rather than how high quality of a human being they are — the producers could insert content that shows female characters valuing themselves based on how many guys want to sleep with them. The content also could show the guys only noticing a woman’s level of sexual appeal, and not taking much notice of what the woman is like as a person.

Television content that promotes the ideal world for sexual predators

The following list shows examples of characters in movies and sitcoms that are vessels through which sexual predation is normalized and presented as comical:

• The nerds from the movie Revenge of the Nerds
• Howard Wolowicz from the series Big Bang Theory
• Georgie Cooper Jr. from the series Young Sheldon
• Douglas Reynholm from the series IT Crowd
• Woody Deane and Horse from the movie It’s a Boy-Girl Thing
• Herbert from the series Family Guy
• Austin the flight attendant from the movie Pretty Ugly People

Note that in most of the examples above, we are led to believe that these characters are just men (or boys) expressing an interest in women, and just being men. Television tends to blur the line between men’s natural interest in women and sexual predation. This article discusses some of the above examples in more detail.

If you watch television at all, then you will notice that many characters on television are over-sexualized, especially women. In addition, we see plenty of television content glorifying sexual promiscuity. Whenever a character has had a celibate period, we are led to believe that the character has been overworked or is a freak of nature (e.g. 40-Year-Old Virgin).

You may also recall television content that shows a physically unattractive, selfish, immature, not-too-smart man with a smart, attractive and kind wife. Examples include Family Guy, The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond and The Anchorman. Such material promotes a fantasy world where behavioral standards for men are very low, but where there are still behavioral standards for women.

In the movie The Anchorman, female journalist Veronica Corningstone meets and falls in love with the famous news anchor Ron Burgundy. While Veronica is smart and physically attractive, Ron Burgundy is obnoxious, selfish, immature, egotistical and sometimes outright mean. At one point, he physically attacks Veronica by picking her up and throwing her over a desk. At other points in time, he calls her a whore and threatens to punch her in her reproductive organs. Despite how crappy of a person he is, Veronica still finds him to be sexually irresistable. While he does redeem himself later by trying to rescue Veronica from the bears den, this redemptive deed would only give Veronica reason to no longer resent him. Such redemptive deeds would not be sufficient to convince any reasonable woman in Veronica’s position to fall in love with him and marry him.

These movies and sitcoms bring across the subliminal message, which states that women who expect their men to be decent human beings are asking for too much and have unrealistic expectations. If you are a woman and you are smart, then you will choose the Peter Griffin or the Homer Simpson or the Ron Burgundy. If you want Mr. Right, you may as well expect to find a diamond in your back yard. Are these messages representative of reality? No. There are plenty of good decent men. The sexual predators would rather that women not know this.

How do we spot sexual predator propaganda material?

Once you know what sexual predation looks like, you should be able to spot sexually predatory behavior on television, even if it is presented as funny. For example, any sexual interest an adult shows towards a child is abnormal. Also, if a male character shows an interest in a female character that is shallow and purely sexual, then the male character may be a sexual predator. If a male character shows interest in a female character that is concerned with what she is like as a person, then it is less likely that the male character is a sexual predator.

Another kind of predatory behavior we sometimes see is stalking, which also can come across as comical in the world of television.

Based on some informal research that I have done, sexual predators’ propaganda material is more likely to be in content that comes from major film companies such as Fox Network, NBC Network and Paramount Pictures. Material that does not promote an evil agenda often comes from movies and sitcoms based on a novel and/or from smaller independent film companies.

Is it ethical to watch mainstream television?

With all of the sexual abuse that goes on behind the scenes, one may wonder whether it is ethical to pay for and watch mainstream television. Whenever we decide to view certain content, we are actively supporting it. Television stations keep track of how many viewers watch each of the shows. Whenever we watch content that has been produced in an unethical manner, we are sending the message that either we are oblivious as to what is going on or we do know what is going on, but we don’t care.

It is for this reason that I have recently decided to stop watching mainstream television on a regular basis.