So. I just watched the last half hour or so of the new reality dating show More To Love and I am feeling a little bitchy about it. There are some really pretty women on that show and they totally seem to hate themselves! Why?? I mean, I know why, it is just sad.
I can’t help but feel that this show is exploiting women with self esteem issues even more than your average reality show fare does and that does not impress me at all.
What I don’t get is why how much someone weighs has to be the hook for the dating show. Obviously heavier people fall in love and are loved by others so why not just put women
I saw a commercial last week, not sure if it was for this show or another new one coming down the pipeline, but it said that the average woman takes a size 16 dress and the average reality show woman is a size 2. Why not just change that? Why do all the other shows have to be populated with skinny chicks? It would make more sense to (and be less insulting) to simply have regular sized women on all the shows instead of having to have one special one for them? To me, it’s implying that “regular” men don’t want “normal” sized women.
And why did the guy they chose have to be heavier too? What, thin men don’t like women with some meat on their bones?
I think this is a shitty attempt for producers and the network to capitalize on the plight of the overweight people of America and it is just plain insulting. On so many different levels.
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July 31, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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August 3, 2009 at 1:18 am
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August 3, 2009 at 4:30 am
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August 13, 2009 at 9:32 am
Don’t all reality shows exploit people? It’s not only women who have issues with their self esteem that are being used for so-called entertainment. Take a look at the whole ‘get rich and famous in instant’ scene with shows like Big Brother using peoples urge for fame to ridicule them in the name of entertainment. Looking back, my comment seems a bit harsh. I’m not saying you’re wrong, simply that the media seems to have latched onto peoples desires/distress as a new form of ‘entertainment’.