Giving Ideas or Solace?

Class Dismissed : How TV frames the Working Class talked about the television series Roseanne as a rare television series that has more real life depictions of the working class women than other television dramas. Also the scene that showed Roseanne’s confrontation with her boss as a rare event on television, and that it was disapproved because it could give people ‘ideas’. Class Dismissed must have had in mind that seeing such images about a working class woman fighting back for her rights to her superior would give women in an awakening about their own rights. However, I see this as too much of an optimistic point of view, because I think people find ‘solace’ rather than ‘ideas (or awareness)’ from television dramas.

That is, working class women in real life would not be able to confront their boss one handedly just as Roseanne does. They would wish to, and they are already aware of such injustice and unfairness of women in the working place. However, they cannot. And scenes such as the ones in Roseanne act as a solace for them, and a satisfaction they cannot have in real life but can feel through the television images.(Futhermore, do these images give solace, and block people from contesting the authority?)

Also nowadays there are television images about old, single women who enjoy dates with young men. Does this actually give ideas to the women, and liberate them from the society in which 'being young' is so idealized? I think it wouldn't be as easy as some television dramas depict it. In real life, relationships with old women and young men are hard to be attain, moreover be maitained. I think this is also an example where television imagaes work as a solace. Television images can give ideas, but it is hard for those ideas to become real life changes.