Desperate Housewives debate is an intense one to follow. It is hard to decide exactly where to stand when you can see the points of both opinions and understand that TV is just about entertainment for the most part and should not be taken too seriously. But then it draws me to another point. TV is probably the most influential thing overall and provokes thought and ideas to people after watching certain things. Just like the “SAW” movies that have come out and is basically about torturing humans and all the insane ways to go about hurting people. These types of movies influence serial killers and bad people to commit these types of awful crimes and I can bet my life on the fact that one day the events in those movies are going to be committed in real life because of the ideas that were implanted to their heads. Therefore, It is hard to know where to draw the line in TV and what to take seriously and what not to.
With Desperate Housewives it is a cute show but does have plenty of fall backs. The negative stereotypes placed on women do affect us in a huge way and I think it is important to point out that most women do not lead lives like that anyway. I think that when people take the show as offensive it is probably because it does not show the lives of hardworking women and the measures they have to take in order to pay bills and be successful at parenting and their other callings as well. It grabs the indentity of very few women and exposes the catty problems they face. This is not a good way to represent the females because of the inaccuracy it entails.