To think EE should not show violence against pregnant woman

[Guzy]

For those of you who watch Eastenders, the character Janine is pregnant she is quite mischievous and manipulative. However slapping, pulling hair and choking a pregnant woman just did not sit right with me. Bear in mind all characters involved knew she is pregnant.
Aibu to think EE should not air such disturbing scenes. As I feel it gives a very wrong message. No one deserves physical abuse especially those who are vulnerable. I feel they are normalising it somehow.

someone close to me threatened to kick me in my belly when I was heavily pregnant it just brought back some horrible memories.
FYI I know it’s not real but people are always influenced by what they watch on tv.

I'd suggest not watching Game of Thrones.

I don’t watch soaps but generally they show real life situations, albeit tremendously exaggerated. Domestic violence likelihood increase massively in pregnancy for any given woman. It’s not a ‘how to’ show either, it’s a drama

Domestic abuse cases during pregnancy are actually a thing. In fact, in some cases, pregnancy can exacerbate an abusers actions.

Putting that into women's living rooms, and providing adequate info on who to contact if needed at the end of the show is likely a help for women who need to know this.

Also in a bit at the thought of a women who aren’t pregnant being more deserving of violence than women who are. There is a special kind of misogynist who only values a woman when she has a foetus growing in her womb.

I thought this was about an EE advert initially

Janine is evil, the other characters were quite restrained, probably because she’s pregnant.

And this

So did I - I thought Kevin Bacon had been upsetting someone

It's not real op! Fgs it's not normalising anything

It was female violence wasn't it....ole Shirley had her by the throat when I glanced up

Game of Thrones is an obvious fantasy show with flying dragons, Eastenders is seen as more “realistic” and they aren’t portraying the violence against Janine as something horrific, it’s being portrayed as someone evil getting their comeuppance, I think that’s the OP’s issue with it.

Not against women, pregnant or not.

Me too

Yabu. Most situations in soaps have happened to someone. They specifically focus on certain things to draw attention to something.

But most things in soaps will have impacted someone. What story line could you come up with that has never impacted anyone?

Maybe Dexter is the show for op to avoid then

@Miss03852 I'm laughing at the thought of Eastenders being more 'realistic'! Janine had been drenched after going off a cliff into the sea in a car then soon after rocked up at the voc ( nowhere near the sea) completely dry with her hair styled....hmm

The way you've written this, anybody who doesn't watch eastenders will imagine some poor vulnerable victim, possibly being assaulted because she was pregnant.

The character is evil, had done unimaginably awful things.

Er...driving off a cliff into the sea and then getting back to the pub completely dry with hair styled?

😆

Yes obviously it’s not real but it’s not the same as GOT which is obvious fantasy 😒 it’s pretty obvious what I meant.

Me too!

@Miss03852 well was game of thrones not loosely based on war of the roses?? A real life event...no?

Whereas poor old Linda's hair seemed to stay wet for at least seven hours..

Pregnant women are especially vulnerable and it can damage the child. So yeah. Awful.

Same