Is there a feminist TV station?

[MrScorpio]

Don't give me Lifetime... They're only good for sappy melodramas

Where is good TV for and by women?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not the "O" Network I guess, right?

[Captain Hilts]

2. Tough call. Wait for a Davis or Hepburn festival on TCM.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. and

Rosalind Russell!

[Hello_Kitty]

6. Don't forget Barbara Stanwick! eom

[Captain Hilts]

8. You just beat me! I still associate TCM with MGM. I thought I was being inclusive in

naming Davis.

Kudos to Barb!

[Kahuna]

13. You got that right. Hepburn and Davis are good. But they have nothing

on Stanwyck. And, I find Stanwyck more entertaining.

[DJ13]

4. Oxygen?

Discovery Health is also targeted towards women, but child birth is their main focus.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. Who the hell unrec'd this? eom

[ismnotwasm]

7. Hell no

Of course not. Folks are too busy watching reruns of "Law and Order SVU" to bother with anything that doesn't involve hot (but dead) chicks.

[rug]

9. Spike.TV.

Or that channel that runs "Snapped".

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. Oxygen runs Snapped

Again and again and again and again....

[Kahuna]

12. "Spike?" Do you really think a station for women would be called, "Spike?"

:eyes:

[rug]

19. D'oh! I was thinking of Crochet Hook.TV.

My bad.

[Gwendolyn]

10. If women want to watch good tv they have to subscribe to a package, same as the men do.

There are good docs on one channel, great flicks on another, cooking shows on yet another, and so on...

I'm not even sure what a "feminist" tv station would offer since the issues and concerns differ from person to person. Would be great if we could get more television geared toward work opportunities for women out there, but maybe there are and I've just missed them.

[ddeclue]

14. I don't know about TV but on XM Radio there's Cosmo Radio.

[lukasahero]

15. I'm having a very difficult time thinking of Cosmo as feminist

but maybe it's just me. :shrug:

[lukasahero]

16. Any TV I've ever seen "made for women"

was so far outside of anything that interests me, it's laughable.

That said, I don't really expect mass media to care about anything more than easy-to-categorize stereotypes - marketing is easier if you don't think of people as individuals.

[seabeyond]

18. i know they have at least one channel, dont know the name and have never watched.... maybe the men

who own and create these channels are truly clueless and only go off what their male brain THINKS a woman wants to watch

[lukasahero]

21. I think the real problem is in defining "women" as a single 'thing'

There are at least a few networks "devoted to women" but I'm pretty sure if you got a dozen women in one room, you'd have at least 15 different areas of interest. Some may overlap (children, god knows what else) but even those wouldn't apply to all (believe it or not, folks, there are women in the world who really just aren't that into children... gasp!)

The problem is, since the default is always male, in an effort to appeal to the female marketers and creative consultants try to grasp on to some generic idea of women's interests forgetting that women are individuals who don't fit some global mold.

[seabeyond]

22. true that.... i stopped watching tv

seemed to be a war against women, sick and tired of sitting there not being entertained at womens expense.

i have seen some shows advertised recently that look interesting, but started reading again and havent gotten to point of turning tv on

stewart and colbert, before bed, is about it.

[Gwendolyn]

23. Guys run into the same issues though. Not all of them are interested in watching...

1000 Ways to Die, or VIP Room, or whatever passes for male viewing fare on Spike or Men. Some like books or the arts, just as women do. Or cooking. Or movies. National Geographic. The male oriented channels are just as bad in that sense. The real marketing scam is that everyone, male and female alike, have to subscribe to 200 channels to get occasionally good teevee combined.

[proteus_lives]

26. Good point.

The good shows, ideas and themes are scattered across the channels.

"1000 Ways to Die, or VIP Room, or whatever passes for male viewing fare on Spike or Men. Some like books or the arts, just as women do"

Or both! I read history and philosophy books before I go to bed but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy Spike's "Ultimate Warrior" earlier that day. ;-)

[Gwendolyn]

27. Lol, yep you're absolutely right. My bad on that one!

Plus I forgot to mention cross-pollination too. There's a reason 1000 Ways to Die came to mind right away. ;)

[salguine]

17. Isn't Lifetime the one that always has movies about

abused spouses who kill their tormentors and usually have Eric Roberts in them?

[Captain Hilts]

28. Yes. Really miserable dross. nt

[Kingofalldems]

20. Bravo?

[Darth_Kitten]

24. W

Here in Canada, at least. Used to be Big F Feminist, now probably little feminist, I suppose.

Great shows, and men like watching it as well.

[mainer]

25. TNT. Full of female-centric characters

The Closer. Saving Grace. Many of these programs are also written by or produced by women.

[phasma ex machina]

29. Some female intellectuals deem Joss Whedon's opus feminist. (Even though he's a guy.)

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Firefly", and "Serenity."

[BlueIris]

30. Plenty of feminists (both male and female) are capable of recognizing a man's ability to make

feminist or feminist-friendly work. Just FYI. The idea that all feminists are women are that no feminist believes a man can be one is a common misconception about feminism (even in the modern age).