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I went to Florida recently to see Bear's family. Our trip included being there on a Monday night, which is when I watch Mr. Personality. Shut up, I don't want to hear it. Anyway, that Monday we were at the house of one of Bear's cousins. Bear's father was in a room watching TV by himself, so I joined him and we started watching Mr. Personality. Poppa Bear got bored and left the room after a bit, which was fine by me. I like him, but felt a little weird sitting there with my boyfriend's father watching a reality dating show. A few minutes later the child of the house wanders in. He's about ten years old. He sits down and announces that he's going to draw for a bit, but he's also watching the TV. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. So I go out and find his mother to find out if she puts restrictions on what kind of stuff he can watch, and she tells me he mainly watches Nickelodeon. I go back and change the channel, and we end up watching Double Dare together while he tries to help me improve on my drawing skills (I have none.) As he's doing this he asks me if I've ever seen Elimidate.
Me: I've seen it.
Him: I watch it almost every day. Sometimes more than once a day.
Me: Does your mother know you watch Elimidate?
Him: Yes.
I gave up. Either he's lying about his mother knowing what shows he watches, or she was lying about the wholesomeness factor of what he watches. Either way, I started to wonder why I'd bothered to switch channels. I'm scared to see how this kid turns out when he starts dating, I just hope he doesn't think that what happens on that show is considered normal.
Speaking of reality dating shows, has anyone else seen the ads for For Love or Money? It's like Joe Millionaire, only it might be even worse. Fifteen women compete for one man, except the catch is that if he picks them they can reject him in favor of a one million dollar prize which he wasn't told about. My question is, what's to stop someone from taking the money and then just going and dating the guy? Is there something in the contract that says you can't see each other or they'll take the money back?
And this may sound wrong, but why must this show (along with Joe Millionaire) make it the women who are chasing after money? Wanda Sykes was right, they should just rename shows like that "Bitches Love Money" because that's the image the media is selling us.
Plus I find the shows where there's one man and a ton of women depressing. Not because of the ratio, but because the women all end up talking about how they're already 27 and all their friends are married and popping out babies and they're scared that they're going to end up alone. Whereas the men end up sounding a lot more rational. I watched the first episode of this season of The Bachelor and couldn't watch any more. The whole thing made me want to scream at people "You're 23 and incredibly attractive! Why are you so worried about whether or not this guy you've never seen before will like you and apparently not concerned at all about whether or not you like him?"
And just so you all know, the reason there are so many links in this post is that I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt that maybe when I mention shows like Elimidate you won't know what I'm talking about and will therefore need an explanation.
Me: I've seen it.
Him: I watch it almost every day. Sometimes more than once a day.
Me: Does your mother know you watch Elimidate?
Him: Yes.
I gave up. Either he's lying about his mother knowing what shows he watches, or she was lying about the wholesomeness factor of what he watches. Either way, I started to wonder why I'd bothered to switch channels. I'm scared to see how this kid turns out when he starts dating, I just hope he doesn't think that what happens on that show is considered normal.
Speaking of reality dating shows, has anyone else seen the ads for For Love or Money? It's like Joe Millionaire, only it might be even worse. Fifteen women compete for one man, except the catch is that if he picks them they can reject him in favor of a one million dollar prize which he wasn't told about. My question is, what's to stop someone from taking the money and then just going and dating the guy? Is there something in the contract that says you can't see each other or they'll take the money back?
And this may sound wrong, but why must this show (along with Joe Millionaire) make it the women who are chasing after money? Wanda Sykes was right, they should just rename shows like that "Bitches Love Money" because that's the image the media is selling us.
Plus I find the shows where there's one man and a ton of women depressing. Not because of the ratio, but because the women all end up talking about how they're already 27 and all their friends are married and popping out babies and they're scared that they're going to end up alone. Whereas the men end up sounding a lot more rational. I watched the first episode of this season of The Bachelor and couldn't watch any more. The whole thing made me want to scream at people "You're 23 and incredibly attractive! Why are you so worried about whether or not this guy you've never seen before will like you and apparently not concerned at all about whether or not you like him?"
And just so you all know, the reason there are so many links in this post is that I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt that maybe when I mention shows like Elimidate you won't know what I'm talking about and will therefore need an explanation.