The following are just a few of the countless fictional bullies:
Ironically, psychopathic or bullying characters are very common in soaps (such as Eastenders and Coronation Street), and other popular dramas (Bad Girls for example). But the general population still fails to correctly recognise and handle psychopaths or bullies they encounter in real life.
The TV viewers seem to have a crime fixation. So many programs concern crime in some way, detectives, and action movies for example. Few dramas don't have a baddy to spice up the program. These baddies are often unrelenting evil people and therefore psychopathic.
The BBC has a Test the Nation series. It would be excellent if they did a program on EQ. Isn't it about time the TV channels found space for at least one program on EQ ? Maybe the media bullies don't want people to know about EQ. Leading family therapist, Chauncey Hare, says "They [the media] want to keep this entire thing [work abuse] a secret. They're aligned with the top management of these corporations because they are funded by them. So they don't dare call attention to work abuse."
The schedules are full of countless mindless makeover, comedy, celebrity gossip, quiz and soap programs. It ought to be in the TV companies' charter, as a top priority, to strive to raise the viewer's EQ consciousness, not to dumb down with mind-numbing mush, therefore perpetuating or even lowering EQ levels.
Just to give an example, Saturday morning children's television is truely mind rotting. It consists mainly of people constantly pouring gunge over each other in different contexts interspersed with awful pop records. All this has wild enthusement from the studio audience. I think I would serious consider banning this stuff on the basis of depraving and corrupting young minds. It must help to turn young minds into mush.
Greg Dyke, ex-BBC Director General, was accused of having a low EQ. But he did start the "Cut the Crap" campaign and actually sent some top managers on EQ training courses. But really he should have given all BBC employees EQ training, and he should have removed all BBC employees who could not come up to a minimum EQ standard probably because they have psychopathic or narcissistic traits. Then the BBC would truely be EQ friendly. Helen Reed said "His [Greg Dyke's] response was that management would be sent on a leadership course, but you can’t train the bully out of the serial abuser."
- Ralph Fiennes (playing a Nazi general) in Shindler's List
- Jack Nicholson in the film "Five Easy Pieces" (a typical narcissistic character)
- Michael Douglas in the 1987 film "Wall Street"
- Bette Davis in the film "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ?" (a serious psychopath)
- Major Major in the book and film "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
- Dirty Den and Grant Mitchell of Eastenders
- Ena Sharples and Mike Baldwin of Coronation Street
- Inspector Barlow of Z-Cars and Softly Softly
- The recording Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles described a psychopathic character called Maxwell Edison.
Ironically, psychopathic or bullying characters are very common in soaps (such as Eastenders and Coronation Street), and other popular dramas (Bad Girls for example). But the general population still fails to correctly recognise and handle psychopaths or bullies they encounter in real life.
The TV viewers seem to have a crime fixation. So many programs concern crime in some way, detectives, and action movies for example. Few dramas don't have a baddy to spice up the program. These baddies are often unrelenting evil people and therefore psychopathic.
The BBC has a Test the Nation series. It would be excellent if they did a program on EQ. Isn't it about time the TV channels found space for at least one program on EQ ? Maybe the media bullies don't want people to know about EQ. Leading family therapist, Chauncey Hare, says "They [the media] want to keep this entire thing [work abuse] a secret. They're aligned with the top management of these corporations because they are funded by them. So they don't dare call attention to work abuse."
The schedules are full of countless mindless makeover, comedy, celebrity gossip, quiz and soap programs. It ought to be in the TV companies' charter, as a top priority, to strive to raise the viewer's EQ consciousness, not to dumb down with mind-numbing mush, therefore perpetuating or even lowering EQ levels.
Just to give an example, Saturday morning children's television is truely mind rotting. It consists mainly of people constantly pouring gunge over each other in different contexts interspersed with awful pop records. All this has wild enthusement from the studio audience. I think I would serious consider banning this stuff on the basis of depraving and corrupting young minds. It must help to turn young minds into mush.
Greg Dyke, ex-BBC Director General, was accused of having a low EQ. But he did start the "Cut the Crap" campaign and actually sent some top managers on EQ training courses. But really he should have given all BBC employees EQ training, and he should have removed all BBC employees who could not come up to a minimum EQ standard probably because they have psychopathic or narcissistic traits. Then the BBC would truely be EQ friendly. Helen Reed said "His [Greg Dyke's] response was that management would be sent on a leadership course, but you can’t train the bully out of the serial abuser."