How Egyptian women are portrayed on their TV shows

This is a must read to help us  understand how Muslim men view their women and how the women are brainwashed by shows on TV to make them think that the treatment meted out to them is not only just, it is accepted and is a norm in society at large.

Nadine El Sayed writing at EgyptToday (I wonder how long writers like her will  be able to voice their opinions  ... freedom of the press has already been curtailed on political issues, social issues are not far behind.)
.....But then the eldest wife makes a mistake and Hag Fawaz summons her, and of course, she comes running down the stairs to wait on him hand and foot. She stands there like a five-year-old in front of a principal and actually kisses her husband’s hand to apologize. Err, I thought this was the 21st century.

I was frustrated with the show already and spent the entire 40 minutes cursing at the TV.  Then it happened: I found my husband’s five-year-old niece glued to the screen watching it. She is a dedicated follower of Fawaz and his wives, but she doesn’t really understand those are wives; she thinks they are his daughters.

How can we blame her? Even the five-year-old can see how the relationship dynamics work more as parent-child than as spouses......

..........Now as if things weren’t bad enough, the scriptwriters decided to add a little bit of action to the show — and for me, this was the final straw. In Tuesday's episode, the fourth wife announces she is pregnant, something Hag Fawaz is strongly against because God forbid she has a child that will tie him to the marriage and prevent him from fulfilling his urge to divorce her for a brand-new wife. So during the last 10 minutes of the episode he takes a whip — yes, believe you me, a whip like those animal rights activists fight against — and lashes out at his four wives, literally.

I know abuse and violence are common, but what amazes me is how it is portrayed. This isn’t a tragic scene about domestic abuse that highlights the trauma women suffer when subjected to physical abuse. No, this is a comic scene. The women are actually laughing and running around and taking the lashing very, very lightly, like it’s a pillow fight at a sleepover. Next thing we know, they will be portraying domestic rape as lightly as a wife-whipping scene. 

How can this be comic? How can inflicting pain on one’s spouse be something to laugh about? This is taking humiliation and degradation of women to a whole new level.......