I don’t know about Jerry Springer, but I do get a kick out of soap operas because their target audience is women, and they do not at all paint women in a nice light.

Women on soap operas kill their ex-husbands, have kids with men other than their husbands, drug men into sleeping with them so they can trick their sister’s fiance into thinking he fathered their child but it was really his half-brother who did the deed (Days of Our Lives, anyone?), plot the murder a high school girl along with an old witch who lives next door because the intended victim’s amnesia from the first attack isn’t preventing her from getting back together with the boyfriend she had but the other girl wants (Passions), dump their boyfriend of years to become a stripper and sleep with the strip club owner but forget to tell their boyfriend about all of this because she was reliving the time her mother dumped her ex-boyfriend (General Hospital).

Not that the men on soaps are any less evil, but I wonder why women want to see other women be that devious.