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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]
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== Straight Examples ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* A variation of this can be found in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' in the story arc of Rosemary Almond, a gentle and demure housewife whose husband, Derek, just can't wait to get home every evening so he can get beat her up and get drunk to vent off his everyday frustrations. Derek is then killed by [[One-Letter Name|V]] himself, making her a [[Widow Woman]]. She is then hit on by one of her husband's co-workers whose sole purpose is to sully her husband's memory by fucking his wife. He is also killed by V later on. She is then expelled from society and is forced to become a showgirl to support herself. Eventually she snaps {{spoiler|and assassinates England's dictator}}.
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* The Mexican shows ''Mujer: Rompe el Silencio'' ("Woman: Break the Silence") and ''Lo Que Callamos las Mujeres'' ("What us Women Keep for Ourselves"), broadcast by Televisa and TV Azteca respectively, are pretty much Latin-American versions of Lifetime shows in a one-hour TV series format. Stories about females in peril or distress that claim to portray how women live in modern society? Check. Men portrayed as selfish, cruel, one-dimensional, perverted and/or abusive unless they throw themselves at the Lead-Du-Jour's feet and kiss her ass? Check. Women caricatured as weepy, whiny little victims who are [[Too Dumb to Live]] to an egregious degree? Check.
** The predecessor of both two shows mentioned previously was the long running ''Mujer: Casos de la Vida Real'' ("Women: Real Life Cases") with former Mexican young actress Silvia Pinal (known to younger people as the old lady in "Mujer..." and to film buffs as the protagonits of [[Luis Buñuel]]'s ''Viridiana''). The show actually started as a charity show (i.e., every peso we get by the viewers watching this Lifetime Series goes to the charity) to help the people affected by the 1985 earthquake. It eventually got a [[Full Circle]] when in 2005 at the 20 year anniversary, ''Mujer: Casos de la Vida Real'' transmitted an entire hour about [[
** And continued by ''[[La Rosa De Guadalupe]]'' ("The Rose of Guadalupe") and ''[[Cada Quien Su Santo]]'' ("To Each His own Saint", transmitted by Televisa and TV Azteca respectively, which is about [[X Meets Y|the same but with religion played in]].
* More than a few episodes of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' fall into this, not helped by Olivia being sometimes portrayed as a borderline [[Straw Feminist]].
** One episode ''brutally'' deconstructs this when Stabler suddenly finds himself being treated as if he was "the evil man" in this sort of drama, ''despite'' him ([[Designated Hero|for once]]) genuinely doing everything he can to help the female victim. (As in, really trying to help instead of wanting REVEEEENGE)
** Another didn't so much deconstruct it as show how absurd making the massive leaps in logic these movies do can be in real life. A woman claims to be "stalked" and "burned" by her ex-husband, and after a confrontation with the cops he gets killed. Turns out she burned herself and did it because she was resentful of him leaving her. Olivia "fought" for her the whole way, and was rewarded with the woman looking right in her eyes and saying "[[Thanatos Gambit|I sure showed him!]]" as she lay dying after revealing her scheme. In short, [[My God, What Have I Done?|Olivia's own prejudices helped a woman kill her husband by proxy]].
* The Oxygen series ''Snapped'' tries to promote itself in the same vein as the Lifetime movies by being about women who have suffered terrible abuse and decide to kill their abusers.
** Occasionally, there are women featured who killed/tried to kill their significant other for no clear reason. That, or completely unsympathetic reasons, like trying to collect insurance money/inheritance, or they had a love interest on the side and [[Murder the Hypotenuse|needed the first guy out of the way]].
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* Morning TV shows in Chile have some sketches about supposed [[Real Life]] stories, but said "stories" are not only very badly acted and planned but also pretty much Lifetime Movies in 20-minute format.
* ''[[Human Trafficking]]'' counts, but unlike most Lifetime films it was well received. The fact that it's inspired by actual events might have helped though.
* There used to be an Indonesian version of this program in one of the local TV channels called "''Oh, Mama. Oh, Papa''" (or something like that) based on a [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|true story]] segment from a magazine with the same name.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
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=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Her Married Lover]]'' looks like a straight example, but notice that the flashbacks tend to have more of this style than the scenes in the present? It turns out this is a [[Deconstruction]].
* ''[[Saved!]]
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Skewered by ''[[The Onion]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100314112545/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33436 here.] They also pointed out the absurdity of the premise by doing a [[Gender Flip]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100218234101/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/empowered_man_murders_controlling in this article.]
* Similarly parodied by [[Something Awful]] [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-movie-database/cynthia-strauss-story.php here.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111203115310/http://mothermayisleepwithlifetime.blogspot.com/ Mother, May I Sleep With Lifetime?] is a blog dedicated to reviewing movies in this genre. It is ''not'' kind to them.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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** Another episode featured ''Raped By a Clown'', starring Meredith Baxter-Birney (who voiced herself).
** The episode "The Story of Brenda Q." subverts this. It's '''[[Cerebus Syndrome|NOT]]''' [[Darker and Edgier|a parody]].
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** An episode
** In another episode, Dr. Hibbert gives Marge a DVD of a Lifetime movie called ''The Woman Who Couldn't Leave Her House'' to help her cope after being robbed at gunpoint.
** Then there was the time the babysitter thought Homer was trying to grab her butt (he was actually trying to pull off a piece of candy that was stuck to the seat of her
** In "Bart The Murderer", Bart is accused of apparently killing Skinner and soon, there's a TV movie titled, ''Blood On The Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story''.
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