The guest blogs were alot of fun. I'm going to leave that invitation open for people. If you want to guest blog, just e-mail your entry to me at witmerm@comcast.net. Like I said, I don't care what you talk about. And don't feel like you need to be outspoken or controversial. You don't always have to hit a nerve to be entertaining.
On that note I wanted to talk about my favorite subject: Reality TV: The Fall of Western Civilization
Most of you know that I pretty much dont do anything. I am working hard at the art of doing as little as I can...does that make sense? In my persistance, I watch a lot of TV. I try to steer clear of the networks (except for maybe the Simpsons and a couple other choice programs). But my better half LOVES the reality shows. So in order for me to spend time in the same room as her, I get stuck watching said reality shows.
The shows that fall in the reality category are bad enough. Its always nice to see beautiful people (who are subsequently fucked in the head) fight and backstab to reach a goal, whether it be staying on an island or marrying a goat or the opportunity to juggle midgets. But there is one show that completely drives me crazy.
The Swan
And i can't remember if i talked about this before but the show was on last night and I decided that I'd say my peace anyway. The Swan is a show that takes "Ugly" women and attempts to make them beautiful. If it were just that, I could appreciate the effort. But no. NO nononono...that's too easy. They "repair" 2 women a week. They dice and slice and chop and lipo these women and at the end of the show they bring them out where they can finally see the results. So here are these newly beautiful women, feeling great about themselves for the first time in howmany years. But here comes the catch...out of the two, one woman will be sent home and one will be entered into the Swan Beauty Pageant.
Does anyone see the evil in this. Hey, you were ugly with no self-esteem...we fixed your horrible nose and teeth and whatever and now you feel pretty good, right? Not so fast...not good enough, go home, you're not going to the pageant.
First off, me being the father of young women, I feel like this is sending entirely the wrong message. Now granted, some of the women that come on this show are busted. Dead ugly...bad teeth and giant noses. I can appreciate them wanting to get that stuff fixed. I TOTALLY understand. But a perfect example of the wrong message was the woman on last night. She was fine. I don't mean fine like HUBBA HUBBA, but there was nothing wrong with this girl. She had a little bit of a humpnose but it wasn't noticeable until she pointed it out. Her problem was self-esteem. She was carrying around the hurt of being made fun of when she was in third grade. THIRD GRADE!!! This bitch was 25 years old and nuttier than squirrel bowels.
What ever happened to uniqueness (is that a word)? The image of the "perfect female" has gone way too far and I think it creates a dilemma for young girls. They're not all built to look like 105 anorexic waifs. But does that mean they're not beautiful? So the young girls are watching this show and saying "man if I only had a nose job...or lipo...or tummy tuck...or porceline veneers..." I guess I just think that's a dangerous path.
I think the best reality TV show would be a survivor-type show where they drop 15 deathrow convicts on an island with a pack of matches and a knife and the last one out is the winner...that would take care of that nasty little inmate overpopulation problem.
posted by Michael Witmer @ Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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