Degrassi?

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Originally posted by abaici
They said it had to do with the "climate" in the States. Also, your last statement was something they alluded to. They said that their was a case of a teen who "cut" herself after viewing the episode about Ellie

But it's not like the kid wasn't going to start cutting if it wasn't for Degrassi. There are other TV programs that cover the same issues. There are segments on the news about self-injury all the time, as well as in magazines and newspapers. Not to mention websites, books -- more likely than not, the kid has friends who self-injure!

I hate the whole blame-it-on-TV mentality. Anybody who self-injures has serious emotional issues that lead to the cutting (or burning, starving, whatever their pain of choice is). It's not like someone who's perfectly happy is going to say, "Hey, I think it's a great idea to cut myself with a protractor!" If it wasn't Degrassi, it would have been something else that suggested it.

I think it's interesting that a Degrassi episode on the subject of abortion ran twenty years ago in the US but they're considering not running one now. It's possible that the newer episode deals with the issue in a more matter-of-fact way than the original, but we may never know if we don't get to see this one.