Cop shows are not appropriate for children
While it’s cool that we have a program getting young girls interested in the hard sciences, I wonder if CSI was the right model to use. For one, have you ever seen that show? A tad grisly. Which, I get it: blood is just not such a huge deal. But the other thing usually is; in an interview at Salon, author Lisa Jean Moore expressed it this way:
These shows have semen as their very special guest star. The sperm gets billing above the dead woman’s body, which the sperm is sort of tossed out upon. In the transcripts for some of these shows, the discussion about the semen is actually longer than the discussion about the victim: how voluminous the man’s semen is, where it is in the room.
They use their goggles, turn off the light and there’s just sperm everywhere. You’re just like, "Wow! I didn’t know that was possible!"
There’s crazy scenarios where guys mix their sperm with ketchup and put it in the refrigerator.
I don’t know what junior high was like for you, but at my school there was one excessively hot girl who knew way more about semen than I did. She was so educational! Ah, the wonder years.
[Source: K-State Collegian]
