i know at least three women who are obsessed with CSI shows

[datasuspect]

and they all irritate the living fuck out of me.

simply because of that. and plus, then they start talking about going to school to become a CSI (an evidence technician, basically a police officer), and i have to be all supportive and pretend like i am interested.

i don't have the heart to tell them that their local police department doesn't look like the bridge in a Federation Cruiser or Imperial Warship and that police aren't all sexy models who use "scienceticity" to find solutions in dark rooms with a techno beat in the background.

and the one woman has become increasingly morbid, actually buying every possible book about serial killers, wants to work on a cadaver farm, and writes poems about albert fish.

jeez.

[mitchum]

1. I have sold hundreds of true crime serial killer books, and, 95% of my customers have been women

I always joke that my interest in serial killers is how I stay in touch with my feminine side

[datasuspect]

2. your joke is right on target.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

3. Albert Fish was one demented mother fucker! nt

[dimbear]

4. No matter what episode, there's always a scene in a strip joint.

Reinforces feminist values.

[madmom]

5. So you would rather they be enamored with the mindless reality shows? They

find these shows interesting and if they are using them as a springboard to learn something new, what's the problem?

Besides don't guys watch shows with hot women (football?) We like to see hot guys too!:silly:

[old mark]

6. Our local PD's Mobile Crime Lab is a rusted late 1970's Ford plumber's pickup truck

with a camper top on it. TV ain't reality. And, FWIW, most times they don't even look for fingerprints unless it's a murder scene...


mark

[mnhtnbb]

7. There's a line about CSI shows in Ben Affleck's "The Town". Funny.

[Bucky]

8. Well let me ask you this...

are any of them single?

[ismnotwasm]

9. You mean the dead chick shows?

That's what I call them. Yeah, I know it's equal opportunity dead people, but so many of them involve dead women, specifically dead female sex workers, that those shows started to piss me off. I don't watch any of them anymore.

I used to read a lot about serial killers, and I didn't understand my own fascination, until another nurse told me "It's because nurses are targets" I thought, "oh". Fascination ended once I understood were it came from.

[Odin2005]

10. My mom loves CSI, and wishes she were a Forensics specialist.

[Initech]

11. I stopped watching when CSI became "let's find the weirdest sexual fetishes we can".

[Demoiselle]

12. I have inadvertently watched the Miami version and I was fascinated by

all the women investigating crime scenes in spike heels, tight skirts, and decolletage. (however you spell low cut tops and poofed up boobs.) Plus a lot of big hair, even in the laboratory. Shouldn't they wear hair nets? Hell, they have to wear hair nets at the butcher shop. All this plus Michael Caruso's rim-shot comments guarantee that my watching will always be inadvertent. (Ie: I can't get to the remote fast enough.)

I do admit a fondness for NCIS and Burn Notice, though.Everybody dresses appropriately for work in those shows.