This is why I don't watch TV

[Gemini Cricket]

I think I caught someone's cold at Disneyland last night and now I'm in a foul mood.
With that being said, I was surfing YouTube and watched a short clip from a reality show called "The Bad Girls Club". Here it is.
So, I'm watching it and thinking WTF?
What the hell is this?

So, to give it a shot, I watched maybe the first two episodes of this season. (It's on its second season.) And I'm just so pi**ed off I can't believe it.
http://www.badgirlsclubonoxygen.com/
Hookers, porn stars, gangbangers, ex-cons all sharing a house together. Uh, this passes for entertainment now? What the hell is going on?

I haven't watched cable tv or network tv in awhile and now I see this. This country has gone nuts. This is a top rated show on Oprah's Oxygen network. I'm just stunned, angry and frustrated.

This show puts women, minorities in a foul light. Trash. All this money, energy and tv time could have been used showcasing people who deserve to be held on a pedestal.

I mean, I'm not naive, I know why shows like this do well. It's fun to watch a trainwreck. But this show is a great big turd. And I'm as open-minded as the next guy, but I refuse to think that the TV viewing world is this dumb.

I can't wait for the whole reality thing to die, because it deserves to.

[€uroMeinke]

Do they get naked?

[Alex]

It's on Oxygen so keep in mind that it is empowering to women. Or something. I'm sure it makes Oprah proud (is she still connected to the nextwork?).

I've never actually seen it but the occasional clips on The Soup are more than enough to convince me that I don't need to. I hate to cast a pox on the entire house of Reality TV since there really are some good reality shows. But I think I'd be willing to give up The Amazing Race and Top Chef and Project Runway if it would mean never accidentally stumbling across Surreal Life or Big Brother or Local News.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Do they get naked?

Well, of course they do. It's what you do on reality shows when you all move into a house and there's a pool.




Okay, here's more. From what I've seen so far, none of this is a cautionary tale to any of the women on the show or anyone watching. There are no lessons learned, no message to the girls watching at home that these women are people you don't want to be like. So, hey kiddies, if you want to be on TV and make a little money be a druggie, slut, hooker, ex-con... that'll get you on the Oxygen Channel.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So, hey kiddies, if you want to be on TV and make a little money be a druggie, slut, hooker, ex-con... that'll get you on the Oxygen Channel.

Uh, but isn't that the reality?

It's not like good grades and a wholesome attitude will get you on TV

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Uh, but isn't that the reality?

It's not like good grades and a wholesome attitude will get you on TV

Yes.
There are people achieving and making money in this world and they shouldn't be. imho.

(And I cross out the "h" because there ain't nothin' humble about my opinion right now.)

[Gemini Cricket]

So, I've been watching this show.
And it just gets worse and worse.
In the last couple of episodes, these ladies have peed in the kitchen sink, stuck food up their asses, one girl tries to piss in the mouth of her date for the evening and one girl talks about how she stole money from a rich girl at a club because she deserved the money more than her.
Wow.
I'm waiting for the redeeming episode where we learn something. Yeah, not happening so far.

[NickO'Time]

I hear what you are saying here GC. And too be frank, I'm absolutely tired of reality shows.

Was TV really that bad off that it needed to go this direction?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I think it's blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain that being on a show like that isn't a "being rewarded". It's "getting exactly what you deserve". As for getting paid, most of them aren't paid. Even if they are, the awful psyche repercussions from being on one of these insane shows more than make up for it.

Perhaps instead of prisons, we could make "TV shows" that involve putting a bunch of insane people in a house together and filming them. That way they stay out of our hair voluntarily. It even works for non-criminals who are just stupid, full of sh1t and annoying. I'd rather they were in some obscene mansion tearing each other's hair out than serving me fast food.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I think it's blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain that being on a show like that isn't a "being rewarded". It's "getting exactly what you deserve". As for getting paid, most of them aren't paid. Even if they are, the awful psyche repercussions from being on one of these insane shows more than make up for it.

I don't know... I guess I just view people, particularly the ladies on Bad Girls Club, to be in it for the attention. I have found so many times in my life that there are certain people that crave attention, positive and negative, and this fulfills that need for them, even if the need is so deeply embedded in their psyche it's not entirely apparent to them, which was probably damaged far before they made their first appearance on the show.

And then there are the people that love to watch that kind of thing...

BTD - as far as a reality TV channel, I know there's one out there - I remember it was in the FOX family. But, it also has more of the game show-type reality as well. I remember that's how I even saw Temptation Island the couple of times I ran across it. They even had some British and Aussie reality TV.