"Men Are Terrible and They Will Hurt You Because This is Lifetime

The joined efforts of Minu Lee and Chong Heup Cho give a little look into the married life of Korean couples in their article "Women Watching Together." The article focuses primarily on the women in the relationships and how sometimes they struggle to find time to watch their shows. Some of the women interview mentioned how they will watch the shows after when their husbands are away, since they would not want to watch that "trash". Other women felt that since the house was basically more of a workplace then a relaxing environment (thank you Confucius), relaxing was looked down upon (as opposed to the men who go to work and relax when they get home). They also talked about how women get together to watch these shows sometimes, yet most of the time they do other things like gossip and such.
The article then went on to talk about a series called The Sand Castle which pointed out a husband who had an affair. The husband treated both women bad, and so the wife ended up leaving. According to the women in the article, the men called this series trash. However, the women felt empowered by the show and actually started questioning their spouses. Oddly enough, some of the husbands actually agreed that men can have affairs.
So, I felt a little weird reading this article. I am so used to soap operas being completely ridiculous. I find it odd how they can actually be empowering to another culture. Though I look at our soap operas and shows of that such and see a culture that has taken the idea of women empowerment and manages to cheapen it. This clip was from Family Guy. I must say that this pretty much sums up the idea behind Lifetime which is notorious for its abusive husband/overall male outlook.

I am sort of curious about how the women interviewed would say about Lifetime.