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HelpRe: Don't these people have ANY imagination? (m)
in reply to a message by Billina
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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