It looks like the television network Oxygen has been getting serious shit for a new show that feeds on the whole “housewife gone mad” bit.

The new show, titled, “Snapped” is a true-crime drama looking at cases of women who have murdered their husbands, reports Women’s eNews. Their appeal is to show how “there's often something far more sinister to the fairer sex than sugar and spice and everything nice.” And this is coming from a women’s network too. Tsk, tsk.

During the program, they study cases of women who have either premeditated or lost control and murdered their partner. Their goal is to pinpoint the exact moment when the woman “snapped” and killed her mate. Yet various organizations for battered women oppose the show, saying that it portrays convicted women as monsters, when most of them were defending themselves from abusive partners. “Oxygen is so wrong to exploit people's fears about women and it is not an accurate portrayal of women in prison at all. More importantly this should not be the dialog and focus of intimate partner homicide," says Andrea Bible, project coordinator for the San Francisco-based Free Battered Women.

Sue Osthoff, the director of the Philadelphia-based National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women is fighting the airing of the show as well. “This show sensationalizes and at the same time trivializes the serious realities of many women's lives. How can you take someone's life and shove it into a half-hour?”

The National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women and Free Battered Women have sent letters to over 35 domestic violence and related groups around the country, urging them to join their fight against next season’s airing of “Snapped." Mirian Arias, Oxygen’s communications manager, said that the decision to start a new season will be made next month.

Let’s hope they suck the air out of that one.