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The first point we have to make is that while there are more depictions of female promiscuity, violence and aggression on television now, these behaviors have been well documented throughout history. We can accept that women can kill, they can assault, they can abandon their children, and they can commit serious acts of cruelty. What we can assert is that the kind of behavior we often see now on television is not an instigator of feminine aggression, but a representation of it and, perhaps in some situations, an inspiration for it. Researchers have long asserted that viewing violence can make a person violent. So can being abused as a child, being sexually assaulted, and being bullied

This seems to support the justification for putting programs like E!s The Girls Next Door, on the air. We were happily surprised that the core viewers for Girls Next Door were women 18-34,' said Berger [Executive Vice President of Programming for E!]. 'Women viewers respond to The Girls Next Door because they love, laugh and make mistakes. It's women simply showing different facets of themselves. It's okay to be emotional, driven and sexual. I think a lot of our programming captures this, (Clark,

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