“The Unreal World,” by Jennifer Pozner is about how reality tv misrepresents women. She states that reality tv only accepts skinny, dumb, white women, and thus sends a message to it’s audience (which is mostly young girls) that women should be extremely skinny, slutty, and compliant, or else they won’t get the man. By being all of those things, the women won’t have to work for a living or be independent; they can just leach off of their rich stud. Pozner is correct; most reality shows do impose this type of person on the public and the young girls who watch take lessons from it. The Swan is a show about women getting unnecessary plastic surgery to look ‘pretty’, Top Model is a show about dumb women with eating disorders that want to walk and pose for a living, even a feel good show like Biggest Loser is about people who must loose weight to stay on the show. The image is taking over.
This article related to my project more than the others because it also talked about how reality tv likes to show arguments, name calling, and embarrassment. Pozner talked about how the producers choose dumb, ditzy money grubbers because they know they will fight each other, especially over the “rich stud.” My project is about arguments and/or fights because, to me, that’s what reality tv is all about. People want to see controversy, or at least, the producers think people want to see controversy.
Some evidence that the image of women being created by reality tv has had a large impact on the youth:
http://www.missbimbo.com/
…what?! Bimbobucks? Thanks, Paris Hilton…
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