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Voice your Views - TV soaps and stereotyping of women
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The topic for the next Voice Your Views column scheduled for December 30 is “New Year Resolutions.” Send your responses before December 26 by post (The Hindu, Metroplus,859/860, Anna Salai, Chennai-2) or email metro@thehindu.co.in in text format. Your responses should not exceed 100 words.
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TV soaps are a bane to society. Most prime-time mega serials have women playing the central role, which is comforting, as movies hardly offer such scope to actresses. But before we pat the creators of the serials, look at what they have made women in the serials do. Daughters-in-law are either shown as cheating and lying or are submissive. Mothers-in-law are either constantly plotting to do away with the daughters-in-law or are being harassed. As a woman, I protest strongly against this kind of stereotyping as it shows women in a very bad light. Very few soaps have woman playing positive and strong characters. But I can only protest by not watching serials as these mega serials are here to stay and the rest of the world will keep watching.
Madhavi Srinivasan
Nanganallur
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