It appears TLC is quite aware on which side its toast is buttered. Look what they were airing a couple weeks before the Duggar scandal broke:
Feminists beware: the new TLC special “Submissive Wives’ Guide To Marriage” is sure to stir a hot debate by showing marriages in which the woman caters to her husband’s every need and allows him to be the king of the castle.
And that means he gets plenty of sex, too—even when she’s not in the mood.
sigh… anybody remember when it was The Learning Channel, and showed actual educational programming?
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June 10, 2015 at 3:52 am
Reneta Scian
That show is so ludicrously misogynistic that I’m actually appalled… What does “Submissive Wife’s” have to do with learning, unless they’re trying to insinuate that this is the appropriate way for a wife to behave. And under what grounds do people think this is okay? The fact that they show this from the perspective of the wives supporting their mistreatment seems highly suspect, since people tend to assume “It’s okay if the women agree with it”, when in fact it’s totally not. Further, the fact that some of this programming speaks directly to fundamentalist religious teachings. Yeah. This has no place on television. If it was the men forcing and expecting that treatment, then the reception by others would be totally different. I’m just… Incredibly shocked that such retrograde nonsense would be shown on a channel that’s supposed to be for and supporting learning about the world. I do not think that channel, or any channel should be running that sort of programming.
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June 10, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Sedate Me
I remember!!!
I used to watch The Learning Channel quite often, back when you could learn something other than how money grubbing network execs of minuscule, niche market, networks could be and how brain dead the viewing public is.
One day, I was watching the finale of a documentary series on the Spanish conquest of The Americas. After the credits rolled,
Next on TLC…midget Mormon sister-wives argue over which toddler beauty pageant to send their 16th child to.
It was amazing how fast & seamless the transition was. One friggin’ commercial break and every mg of value was stripped out of that network. Similar things happened to other channels like A&E, Discovery and even The Nashville Network. (They went from attempts at positive Southern culture to a network for stoned hicks who’d be frat-boys, if only they could ever graduate Grade 8.)
Worse yet, the dumbing down “worked” for all of them, thus causing a domino effect across the TV spectrum.
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June 10, 2015 at 6:31 pm
bleatmop
I really don’t remember TLC being anything other than vapid reality show B.S. My first memory of it was that Trading Spaces show and it hasn’t got any better than that. I think that it still calls itself The Learning Channel without any sense of irony or comedy is a commentary on our societies that embrace it’s programming.
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