Screaming women

[Miss Chicken]

I have been rewatching series 1 to 4 of Supernatural. Love this show, But I do get annoyed how often they have women screaming and freaking out when they see a random dead body or someone killed. The same thing happens in many TV shows. Rarely do men in these shows react in the same way. Men usually only scream when they are the ones getting killed.

I am a woman. I once saw my young son running towards me on fire - i did not freak out. I handled the situation.

I also had to hold the hand of a 19 year old man (a neighbour) who had been hit by a car. Though I knew this man very well and liked him I managed to stay calm. I knew he was dying.

I must admit that his girlfriend was screaming but she was a stupid bitch at the best of times. Every other woman in the street was handling the situation calmly, calling for ambulance, bringing blankets, trying to calm the girlfriend.

Does anyone else get a little annoyed at women screaming in TV shows like this?

 

[Amaris]

Yes. It annoys me. Most women I have met keep a cool head in emergencies, so why the stereotype of women screaming/fainting/hysterical has survived from the 1950's, I don't know.

 

[Hermiod]

I thought women just screamed at ridiculously overrated male pop singers, not dead bodies.

 

[Deckerd]

But that's real life, Hermiod It has to be said that some stupid bitches (c) Miss Chicken do scream at the drop of a hat but not nearly as many as television and cinema would have us believe.

 

[Roshi]

I've just watched a lesbo clip where this Brazilian 'actress' literally screams (as in pain) every time she's feeling pleasure. Quite unsettling.
I agree with you Miss Chicken.

 

[Deckerd]

That kind of screamer is just a drama queen.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Does it annoy me? Yes, it does. It annoys me to see the stereotype on TV and it annoys me when certain women do it in real life. Although, as others have said, there are relatively few women who do, so its mostly just an odd stereotype with little basis in real experience. It usually makes me roll my eyes, particularly as I see it as an attention-grabbing device and the characters in question do not strike me as attention-grabbing types. I consider it rather distasteful a lot of the time.

Screaming to demonstrate joy or surprise, on the other hand...young women do it all the time, at least in my experience. Real, red-faced, mouth open, screeching at the top of their lungs in a high pitched wail over and over again oh my god oh my god oh my god a minor pleasant surprise!!! There go my eardrums. Why young women do this, I don't know....

 

[Rii]

Screaming would be preferable to the strangled gasping sound one woman I knew would make upon encountering seemingly anything at all out of the ordinary.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Yes the screaming annoys me, but not as much as the "falling down while they run away from the killer" annoys me. Why do they always fall down?

I've often wondered if i COULD scream if i was being attacked or chased. The thought that i might not be able to scares me.

MISS CHICKEN, someday you are going to have to tell us the story about your son. That sounds positively horrifying.

 

[Pingfah]

Yes the screaming annoys me, but not as much as the "falling down while they run away from the killer" annoys me. Why do they always fall down?

It's because terrified victims run very fast, and machete wielding serial killers walk very slowly and purposefully.

If they didn't fall down all the time, they'd easily get away.

 

[doubleohfive]

Really the only time it was noticeable enough that it irritated me that I can recall was in March, at a friend's birthday dinner. We were seated at a row of tables between rows of booths.

One friend who was attending this party was having migraine issues, but as the birthday girl was her room-mate, she couldn't very well stay home. On top of this, it was Saturday night at a bar/club/live music venue/restaurant in downtown Burbank.

So, for most of the night there's a girl at the booth behind my friend with the migraine. The girl in the booth was clearly stupid-ass-drunk by the time we were seated but she was was screaming and talking at the top of her lungs and so for about an hour we just sat through it, hoping she'd simmer down.

Finally I had to get up and say something, so I did. As it turns out, it was this young woman's birthday as well and upon hearing that my friend was having a migraine, she was very cooperative and promised to try to dial it down a bit. Admittedly, I felt a little bad about saying anything, but when her friends started bitching and moaning about it all, any sympathy on that front evaporated.

Luckily it wasn't much of an issue that night and the screaming girl was very nice about it. About the only regret I have is that I didn't ask her for her number, if only to piss off her friends who complained to me.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I've often wondered if i COULD scream if i was being attacked or chased. The thought that i might not be able to scares me.

I sort of have the same fear, really.

 

[FordSVT]

I thought women just screamed at ridiculously overrated male pop singers, not dead bodies.

Not just male ones, have you seen a Miley Cyrus crowd?

 

[Colonel Green]

I also had to hold the hand of a 19 year old man (a neighbour) who had been hit by a car. Though I knew this man very well and liked him I managed to stay calm. I knew he was dying.

I must admit that his girlfriend was screaming but she was a stupid bitch at the best of times. Every other woman in the street was handling the situation calmly, calling for ambulance, bringing blankets, trying to calm the girlfriend.

You may have reacted differently had it been one of your loved ones clearly about to die. Unlike your flaming child, it sounds like there was nothing to be done.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

My mom screamed when she found my dad dead in his chair, which caused me to scream momentarily too.

I don't know if I screamed or not when I was assaulted. I would think not, as I was busy being strangled and running away - needed my lungs for more important things than screaming. I was screaming in my head, that's for sure.

People react differently to sudden trauma and terror, and there's so many mitigating factors that influence reactions that bystanders may be totally unaware of. I wouldn't write someone off as a stupid bitch simply because she reacted to something terrible by screaming while someone else stayed relatively calm in the same situation.

 

[John Picard]

I thought women just screamed at ridiculously overrated male pop singers, not dead bodies.

Not just male ones, have you seen a Miley Cyrus crowd?

 

[doubleohfive]

^
That's great. I've seen it before, and it's still just as true.

 

[Miss Chicken]

People react differently to sudden trauma and terror, and there's so many mitigating factors that influence reactions that bystanders may be totally unaware of. I wouldn't write someone off as a stupid bitch simply because she reacted to something terrible by screaming while someone else stayed relatively calm in the same situation.

I didn't say she was a stupid bitch because of the screaming - I said she was always a stupid bitch. I had known this woman for at least 5 years before her boyfriend died and disliked her all that time. The boyfriend, Dale, I knew for only a year and he was a really sweet guy.

Five days after Dale died she had a new boyfriend. That lasted three weeks and then another boyfriend. Five months after Dale died she married a third boyfriend. He was a real dick and I thought they deserved each other.

I was very fond of this woman's little daughter but disliked her son as much as I disliked his mother. Neither of these children where Dale's kids. They were both from a previous relationship.