"Indecent Television"

[calliopeia17]

Forgive me my unnecessarily referential and overly esoteric English major squee/babble.

So, I just sat down to watch the first episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, expecting it to be fairly interested...three episodes later, I had to tear myself away from the computer screen. I probably only summoned up the willpower because I would have had

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[calliopeia17]

(Lol, I know why you call it that, I just think it's funny.)

I think contradictory is a good way to put it. I honestly don't think that you can legitimately call the show anti-feminist because it doesn't provide a cross-section: it's a legitimate point in an argument, but I rarely think that that sort of thing is enough to condemn a work a literature. I think to outright condemn it it would have to be that in conjunction with a lot of other things, and also a lack of recognition that there is a wider range of experience than what is being shown, which I actually think the show deals with nicely, if flippantly, in the first episode: ("I wasn't abused by a relative, I don't have a child to support, I've never been addicted to anything," etc. as well as the fact that she makes it clear that what she's doing is white-collar prostitution and not street-level stuff- but that there is street-level stuff.)

Lol, in what sense could someone even call nymphomania fatal?

[of_polyhymnia]

I feel like having sex to death would need a different name. My personal suggestion? Nymphomania-a-mort. Nice double entendre (almost- or at least if you live in the Renaissance), even.

[of_polyhymnia]

Bibble Piper
I'm sorry, I got to that and had to stop reading for laughing.

My point is that I really like the show. I like that it makes me think, but also that it's fun...because everyone wants to know what it's like to be a prostitute. (And everybody wants to be told that it's sexy and glamorous and exciting, which is probably problematic, but I don't care.)
Yay, pretty much exactly what I thought. I'm not really well versed enough in feminism to contribute further to the discussion, but I'm glad at least that you like the show. :-)

[calliopeia17]

Lol, fixed. This is why I shouldn't write things at one in the morning.

:-)

[bloodrebel333]

Okay, now I need to get my hands on the DVD box of that.

[calliopeia17]

It's really a pretty good show, and quite interesting. I think the DVDs come out in the UK this week- I'm not sure how accessible that makes them for you; I doubt I could get them at all here. I only have downloaded copies borrowed from friends. But you should give it a try, if you can find copies!