IsabellaLinton wrote:
I'm tired of rhetoric that suggests women secretly enjoy violence.
Perhaps we should switch it up:
Do some men prefer violent women? Think of Lorena Bobbitt or Fatal Attraction ...
I think definitely.
Here in the UK soaps are always trying to attract male viewers.
There is a general moral rule in soaps. No murderers get to stick around. Justice is done, either the murderer dies or the murderer is sent to prison.
Tracy Barlow who was physically attractive, young at the time and known at the time for going about in red crop tops and denim short shorts killed her boyfriend Charlie Stubbs. It wasn't manslaughter. She plotted to kill him in cold blood over months and months of planning and placing clues to make it look like self defence. Then she did a lap dance to subdue him and whacked him over the head with a heavy metal ornament. Not because he was abusing her (as she made out by self harm) but because he was cheating on her.
Anyway, she went to prison for 2 years before they brought her back because she was such a popular figure with male viewers... Normally murderers are sent to prison and never seen again. She's still on the soap over 10 years later and it gets joked about.
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