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HelpDon't these people have ANY imagination? (m)
in reply to a message by JessicaLeigh
Seriously, another large family with all J names? Why? What is the great infatuation with this letter?
Also...I'm getting tired of all these Duggar-type families who have no other claim to fame than spitting out a new kid every nine months. Why is this entertaining? I didn't watch the Duggars' show, and I won't be watching this one, but I honestly don't understand how people are entertained by this. Could someone explain it to me? There is no story, there is nothing at stake, I just don't get it. Maybe it's because I have never been fascinated with babies or birth in general, but just...WHY?
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Also...I'm getting tired of all these Duggar-type families who have no other claim to fame than spitting out a new kid every nine months. Why is this entertaining? I didn't watch the Duggars' show, and I won't be watching this one, but I honestly don't understand how people are entertained by this. Could someone explain it to me? There is no story, there is nothing at stake, I just don't get it. Maybe it's because I have never been fascinated with babies or birth in general, but just...WHY?
Willoughby wolloughby willina, an elephant sat on Billina.
Willoughby wolloughby wirfak, an elephant sat on Mirfak.
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I haven't read any of the other responses to your question yet, so I don't know whether or not I'm repeating anything. But I think the reason that people are fascinated by the Duggars is that there is a part of a lot of people who would like to do what the Duggars have done. Say to heck with it with birth control, to heck with manipulating our bodies so we don't do what nature intended us to do, have as many children as nature dictates, name them all, love them all, have a lot of grown children when they're old, and many, many descendants. It's what people used to commonly, routinely do.
And it's what few do any longer, and few feel that they can do. There are reasons for this, but I'm convinced that concern about overpopulation is a reason for very few. It's the fact that children cost more money than they used to, it's the overemphasis on education, which brings all kinds of headaches, it's the helicopter parenting and the fact that parents who don't helicopter their children are likely to become targets of a CPS investigation, it's the lack of domestic help. I know there's a part of me that would have liked to say "The heck with it" and I will always wonder what the children that I didn't have because I had to limit myself to two for the above reasons would have been like. A part of me that will always envy my mother because she had five children and not just two.
A family who does this in this day and age in spite of all the reasons there are not to, and seems to make it work, and seems to be happy, I can understand why they are a source of interest.
And it's what few do any longer, and few feel that they can do. There are reasons for this, but I'm convinced that concern about overpopulation is a reason for very few. It's the fact that children cost more money than they used to, it's the overemphasis on education, which brings all kinds of headaches, it's the helicopter parenting and the fact that parents who don't helicopter their children are likely to become targets of a CPS investigation, it's the lack of domestic help. I know there's a part of me that would have liked to say "The heck with it" and I will always wonder what the children that I didn't have because I had to limit myself to two for the above reasons would have been like. A part of me that will always envy my mother because she had five children and not just two.
A family who does this in this day and age in spite of all the reasons there are not to, and seems to make it work, and seems to be happy, I can understand why they are a source of interest.
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I find them fascinating just because I wonder how such a large family can function well. Like, with all those kids how do they keep any sense of order and "family"-ness and how do they all live under the same roof and manage their house with all those little kids running around messing it up? That kind of stuff.
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I have no idea either, but then again I really don't like any reality shows. They are so boring to me. I just don't get the appeal.
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just don't get it
just don't get it
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I think the mega-family genre of reality tv is like our politically correct version of the Victorian freak show. We can't look at people who are horribly deformed for entertainment any more - but we can gawk at the spectacle of weirdo procreation-frenzied families. Sometimes with added religion wackiness! It's fun for everyone!
I don't know, I don't watch them either, so I also don't get it.
I don't know, I don't watch them either, so I also don't get it.
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The question is, why are people who do what humankind evolved to do, without resorting to unnatural means to avoid doing it, considered "weirdo"?
This message was edited 5/16/2015, 7:38 AM
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Came for the names, stayed for the seedy underbelly of their religious cult
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Yeah I once so a conference paper on the Duggars and the success of the show was attributed to the "freakiness" of Michelle's constantly pregnant body.
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Speaking of Michelle, WHEN is she ever going to change her hair? It's so dated, I can't see HOW she thinks it looks good.
This message was edited 5/14/2015, 8:17 AM
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I don't watch them either, but my mom and sister do. There's a part of me that likes that there's a tv show out there that's popular and doesn't have to rely on sex, drugs, and/ out of control lifestyles to get fans. But then, it's just another reality show, and formulaic in its own way.
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Oh, but it does rely on sex. Lots and lots of sex. But I know what you mean, so I'll stop being a douche about it.
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hahaha
I had the exact same thought, but was too lazy to write it
I had the exact same thought, but was too lazy to write it
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But couldn't you have something which is neither on sex and drugs NOR on people spouting one kid after the other (and often having dodgy ideologies on their own right?)
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It would be nice, but if you look at what's big on tv, there doesn't seem to be a lot of family friendly stuff outside of Disney/ Nickelodeon. But even most of that is for kids, not the whole family.
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EXACTLY this
I also don't care about watching them, but my mom and sister (and gramma) are fans of the Duggars. I think they're good people, I just don't care to watch their lives.
Another family with pretty much the same "dynamic" as the Duggars, down to the J naming, though? That just seems excessive and copycattish...
I also don't care about watching them, but my mom and sister (and gramma) are fans of the Duggars. I think they're good people, I just don't care to watch their lives.
Another family with pretty much the same "dynamic" as the Duggars, down to the J naming, though? That just seems excessive and copycattish...
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I compared this new family to the Von Trapps when I talked to my sister one day. Large musical family that performs. I guess a cross between the two.
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That is so true!
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This is straying way off topic but I remember my family having a discussion a couple year ago about how networks like TLC are basically modern day versions of freak shows. There's programs about conjoined twins, little people, morbidly obese people, people with strange disorders and diseases etc etc I don't think our society is as far removed from looking at people with disabilities as entertainment as we like to think we are.
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You are so right! Now I'm gonna have a hard time thinking of TLC as anything other than the "freak show" channel. =X
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I'm with you on the "why is this entertaining". I really really hope people are not having kids just for the fame of it. Maybe I'm really judgemental, but I have a bit of a hard time convincing myself that is not the case.
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