{"id":49909,"date":"2012-06-03T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T09:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=49909"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:49:42","slug":"new-tv-heroines-resemble-male-psychopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=49909","title":{"rendered":"New TV Heroines Resemble Male Psychopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Gerald Gilbert \u2013 via henrymakow.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/hei-fi\/entertainment\/cold-clinical-and-ballsy-tvs-new-breed-of-heroine-7777807.html?origin=internalSearch\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">The Independent, May 22<\/span><\/a>)<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">When inmates run the asylum&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-49912\" title=\"H&amp;M\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>In his book <em>The Essential Difference<\/em>, Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University professor of developmental psychopathology, wrote that &#8220;the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy&#8221;.<\/h5>\n<h5>Not on TV drama they aren&#8217;t &#8211; or not any longer. The modern television heroine is increasingly likely to act like an anti-social, obsessive male.<\/h5>\n<h5>Or as Danish actress Sofie Grabol famously said to the writers of <em>The Killing<\/em> when they tried giving her workaholic detective Sarah Lund a love life: &#8220;I am Clint Eastwood&#8230; he doesn&#8217;t have a girlfriend.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>After Lund, there was the self-medicating bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison in Homeland, picking up men in bars for functional sex, a trait shared with Swedish policewoman Saga Noren in <em>The Bridge<\/em>, a seemingly undiagnosed case of Asperger&#8217;s syndrome.<\/h5>\n<h5>It&#8217;s a trend that is taken to its logical conclusion in Sky Atlantic&#8217;s first homegrown drama, <em>Hit &amp; Miss<\/em> (written by Shameless creator Paul Abbott), in which Chlo\u00eb Sevigny&#8217;s Mia is both a sociopath and the owner (albeit reluctantly) of a penis.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/new_tv_heroines_are_like_male.html\">Continues in full\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mia is a transsexual saving up for her gender-changing operation by working as a contract killer, her clinically ruthless day job suddenly messed up by the discovery that she has fathered a 10-year-old boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50056,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49909\/revisions\/50056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}