Twin Peaks was one of the most popular shows on television during its first season, aired in 1990. The show was based in small town America, and was easily related to by young and middle aged viewers. The series begins with the murder of an American icon, the Homecoming queen Laura Palmer. The entire series spawned from the single image of a young beautiful girl’s dead body that washed up on the shore. This image …showed first 75 words of 3452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3452 total…therefore will take a similar stance on what is feminine and masculine in society. David Lynch said in 1989, “I couldn’t care less about changing the conventions of mainstream television.” Unfortunatly this is true. Lynch did not change, or want to change, the way that women are portrayed in television, and it is this kind of ignorance in our society that lets the desensitization of violence and scorn toward women continue in our mass media.