Post: #1

Abstract: This study ...explores the associations among relationship variables and measures of both television viewing and belief in television portrayals by analyzing data collected from 392 married individuals. Results revealed that both heavier viewing of romantically themed programming and greater belief in television's portrayals of romantic relationships were associated with lower marital commitment, higher expected and perceived costs of marriage, and more favorable perceptions of alternatives to one's current relationship.

Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...ode=hmcs20

This is one of those findings that any player could've told you. The manosphere is full of guys saying how chick flicks raise girls' standards to ridiculous heights. But if you said that to your typical Western chick, or even your average married doofus, they'd write you off as a paranoid misogynist. People ask why studies like these matter when they demonstrate something that's obvious. Well some people have their heads so far up their ass, they're so blinded by ideology, that they need several studies like these to influence them. Even then, these might have no effect.

I'd write more, but I'm on my phone.

Post: #2

Yep. When chicks see how some pussy pedestalizes a chick in a movie or tv show, deep down they're thinking, "How come MY man doesn't do/say that." Their real-life man will always come up short.

Post: #3

I'm not sure what does more damage--movies/TV shows, or the BURGEONING "Romance Fiction" market. My ex-wife churned through that crap like an International Harvester downing crops. I read a couple as our marriage was deteriorating... riiiiiight. Amazingly, I had not turned out to be a fantastically wealthy Scottish lord with lands, a brooding nature that turned out to secretly be vulnerable and sensitive, and a knowing touch which secretly ignited all her inner desires without her ever having to do a goddamn thing.

It's as mythical as the male fantasy of attractive women who actually enjoy sex and... no, hang on, I've met a few of those sense. Scratch that.

Post: #4

The proper term is "emotional pornography".