Media and the Normalization of Violence Against Women

A new addition to indyblogs, Turtel, in New York, posted a great entry (a while ago, but I guess it showed up on my feedreader now because the blog was just added to indyblogs) about the frequency on TV of depictions of violent acts against women and how that serves to portray those acts as okay.

As Cialdini writes in science-speak, the problem is that

re: Media and the Normalization of Violence Against Women

I'm no expert of any kind... but are they saying that people should be saying that few people are doing this or that no one is doing this so that it doesn't seem "normal?" That seems kind of messed up... doesn't the scope of the problem need to be acknowledged as well? I'm not sure I understand...

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