Women of TV

What kind of incense are they burning, and are they a true reflection of women today?

I will be honest and say that while I am not the type of person who loves watching television, I do tend to get quite easily sucked into shows that include a lot of drama and chaos.  I think maybe that is because it is so very opposite of the life that I actually live.  While that is the case, I got to thinking that these so-called reality shows are not really reality to anyone I know.  In fact, if the women depicted in certain shows like, Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, and The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, then I am way off.  I’m not the only one though, most of the women I know are nothing like these “real” women.  I am so not sure where they are getting their wholesale herbal incense from, but they just aren’t right.  Is it just me?

On the MTV realty show Jersey Shore, the lives of mostly Italian descended “young people” are followed and recorded.  The girls on the show, or should I say “guidettes” are very out of the ordinary to me.  They dress, for lack of a better term trashy.  The make-up that they put on for one night out would be enough for me for a months worth, and they are completely inappropriate.  Bringing home and sleeping with a large number of men, getting completely drunk and crawling home.  I know very little women who do all of these things on a regular basis.  Maybe one or two of those things at one point in their life, but never all the time, so where do they get off telling me that’s real?

The Real Housewives shows follow around “real housewives.”  These women typically have very wealthy current or past husbands.  Some actually hold jobs, but most are just elite socialites.  Who is this realty to?  I don’t know of any woman who chooses the challenging option of staying home to raise the children and keep house who really just sit out by a pool all day with someone else tending to both the children and the home.  And on top of it all, the cat fights, oh the cat fights!  No woman I know acts like these women.

The Bachelor and Bachelorette shows have a man looking for love out of a variety of women, and a woman looking out of a variety of men.  The women on the Bachelor tend to be disgustingly catty and ridiculous, while the woman on the Bachelorette plays an air head.  A lot of these women are obviously very intelligent, so why are they acting this way?

Apparently no matter what the reality show, we women want to see cat fights, air heads, and trashy women.  Maybe it is because of our insecurities that we do not want to watch real women who are much like ourselves on television.  I’m not really sure, but it is something to think about.