"Normal" sexuality?

[felix_numinous]

91. When it comes to the current dominant culture

women often are treated like a minority. What I have noticed is that increased sexism, racism and homophobia--and violence in general-- seem to go hand in hand with a depressed economy. Education loses funding and ignorance abounds.....

Our country, along with too many others, has a paradigm of power that is dominating/hierarchic.. so the result of this is a culture that slips into abusing power, on every level, schools, neighborhoods, in the home, and in films, games and in how stories are framed.

Why,(since the 70s?) has TV been dominated by police/detective/murder mysteries? Why are we seeing so much horror,violence, gore, torture--depicting the many forms of abusing power? When I was a teenager and learned about the Roman Colloseum, it was so obvious that it was evidence of a culture in decline. Presenting gratuitous violence as entertainment, but here we are.

I absolutely am not entertained by watching women being chased in terror, thrown around, then reading it is happening in society and no one calls this out.

I would love to see more peaceful solutions, more advanced social skills, more respect and more discussions on how to handle all the stressed and dysfunctional behaviors we have to face in today's world. Thank you redqueen for bringing this one to light.