I admit, vacation isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when you're from an arctic climate, and the mean temperatures of the state you're visiting are in the high nineties. Naturally, I've been spending quality time with the free cable and air conditioner. While flipping through the channels, I ended up on Oxygen, and my jaw hit the floor. Apparently, there's this show called "Bad Girls Club", and it features these model-esque women who's beauty really is only skin deep. Fights, name-calling, drama, and personalities as fake as the noses on their faces. After the turn of the century, reality television has become a fixture of primetime entertainment, but I have to wonder what we've become as a society when we promote shows such as this? There's no content, no substance, nothing. Just women acting like spoiled whores, and doing so with the whole world watching.
Harsh opinion, I know, but think about it. What kind of message are we sending young women and girls by promoting a show featuring shallow, manipulative, socially inept, and surgically/chemically altered women who spend most of their time fighting and drinking? Sorry but these women are not role models, unless you want your daughter to grow up, and become the middle-class version of Nichole Richie or Paris Hilton.
I realize some of my more hard-core feminist sisters would argue that these are women who are in control of their sexuality, but exploitation is exploitation regardless of who's in charge of it. Instead, they should be working on their natural, God-given talents that requires more of what's between their ears than what's between their legs in order to get ahead in this world. Looks don't last, but skills do.
If anything, we should be airing shows featuring women in roles typically reserved for men such as law enforcement, medicine, science, armed services, and the like. Yes, I know, there is that one show about female police officers, but that is ONE program out of dozens that are based on the objectification of women. Why? Because, of that old adage that sex sells, and for some reason we like watching self-destructive nymphomaniacs in HD.
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Harsh opinion, I know, but think about it. What kind of message are we sending young women and girls by promoting a show featuring shallow, manipulative, socially inept, and surgically/chemically altered women who spend most of their time fighting and drinking? Sorry but these women are not role models, unless you want your daughter to grow up, and become the middle-class version of Nichole Richie or Paris Hilton.
I realize some of my more hard-core feminist sisters would argue that these are women who are in control of their sexuality, but exploitation is exploitation regardless of who's in charge of it. Instead, they should be working on their natural, God-given talents that requires more of what's between their ears than what's between their legs in order to get ahead in this world. Looks don't last, but skills do.
If anything, we should be airing shows featuring women in roles typically reserved for men such as law enforcement, medicine, science, armed services, and the like. Yes, I know, there is that one show about female police officers, but that is ONE program out of dozens that are based on the objectification of women. Why? Because, of that old adage that sex sells, and for some reason we like watching self-destructive nymphomaniacs in HD.
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