Breeding your way onto a "Reality show"....

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June 07

Breeding your way onto a "Reality show"....

Why do we make celebrities out of individuals, who willingly have INSANE amounts of children?

Why is Hollywood shelling out 7-figure "reality show" contracts to these people? Who are the individuals wasting an hour out of every week, watching these people herd their children from place to place? How does this qualify as "entertainment", when this process transpires daily at daycare centers the world over? I don't see anyone showing up with a big, fat Hollywood contract for these underpaid workers on the front lines. Workers who often do a better job at child rearing, then the actual parents themsleves.

Why should I salivate over these weekly "dog and pony shows"? Who's demonstrating concern for the countless single mothers on welfare, because their children were unfortunate enough to be fathered by a deadbeat? When a woman who's a glorified "attention whore", and defines her self-worth by the amount of children she can bring into this world, decides to have 14 children with no means of financial support to her name, suddenly it's a crisis? Subsequently, the world must come together to save her? And what reasonable and compassionate parent, would willingly subject their children to the 24-hour sideshow that is Hollywood?

I cannot have sympathy for women who pump themelselves full of fertility drugs, without first thinking of the conseqences. Or, subsequently being prepared for such. The doctors who flaunt the regulations around such treatments, should be held criminally liable.

There are abused, unwanted, neglected children the world over BEGGING to be adopted. I fail to see how the trials and tribulations of infertility tugs more on the heartstrings, than a story a child forced to fend for itself by eating our of dumpsters.

I don't know. Maybe that's just my personal shortcoming.

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Dustin Gouldwrote:

Outstanding points.

June 8

Thedosiuswrote:

I've been contemplating this issue for a couple of years now, and have come to the following conclusions:

1. Production companies and studio executives HATE dealing with the writers' guild. I don't mean hate like "Eww, who put mayo on my fucking cheeseburger?". I mean hate like the lone jew who accidentally wandered into a mosque. The writers' guild, like any union, has grown too big and too powerful. They have reached the point where they can shut down the entire television industry indefinitely (as evidenced a couple of years ago during the strike). As a result, "reality shows" (actually a misnomer. Nothing about them is "real") are an appealing alternative. There's no crew of writers, so there's no rediculously high writers' salaries.

2. A woman with 14 kids is far easier to control than some prima dona actor who thinks they are god's gift to prime time. Did you think it was a coincidence that all of these reality shows are populated with dumbass hillbillies and mouth-breathing city trash? For them, it's either a reality show which can pay millions if it's successful, or put on a uniform and go to Iraq. People in that position will do as they are told. Executives like that.

3. The people have been robbed of their ability to critically analyze complex social interactions. Put it simply, they are not taught how to think. Therefore, complex, well-written stories are superfluous. All that is required is filler between the advertisements which tell the people what they need to buy next.

June 8

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