Meaning of pity porn | Babel Free

Definitions

A cinema or TV production designed to elicit great pity from the viewers, but without helping the people concerned

derogatory, informal, uncountable

Examples

“Grimsby doesn’t ever wound quite as devastatingly as Borat or Brüno, but it’s a vital, lavish, venomously profane two fingers up at Benefits Street pity porn and the social division it fosters.”

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