Series such as The Fall are “designed to reel in a mainly female audience”, according to Germaine GreerFemale viewers’ fascination with the victimisation of women is to blame for the prevalence of sexual violence and rape on television, Germaine Greer has claimed. Crime dramas criticised for gratuitous depictions of attacks on women are only trying to satisfy the desires of their audiences, according to the feminist writer. “Female victimisation sells. What should disturb us is that it sells to women,” she said. The final series of the Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge, that starts on BBC Two this month, opens with the discovery of…

Source: The Times April 30, 2018 23:01 UTC