Siskel and Ebert Take on Violence Against Women (1980)

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/29/6864379/siskel-ebert-criticism-games

Anita Sarkeesian made waves by pointing out how often the bodies of hurt or even murdered women are used as background decoration in video games, but the argument that the suffering of women is an overdone trope in pop culture isn't new. In fact, Siskel and Ebert made the same point about movies.

They devoted an entire episode to it, in fact. On television. By the time this video was shot in 1980, the show was already airing in close to 200 stations, and was the "highest-rated weekly entertainment series in the history of public broadcasting" according to Wikipedia.

So is this a normal thing? Slasher films? Or a backlash from the Women's lib movement as Siskel hypothesizes?