Women on Reality TV

I thought "The Unreal World" was the most interesting because of how ridiculous the women are on reality TV. It described the stereotypes that the women portrayed and how the producers hand picked those people to simulate drama in the show. Just by the fact that they prey on women's insecurities about their appearances based on revealing clothing and weight is ridiculous because those women are perfectly normal in our reality.

What I think is also interesting is that they don't mention one of my favorite reality shows, "TLC's What Not to Wear" because they take average women and revamp their wardrobe in order to make them look beautiful. Although the beginning of the show trashes on the participant's looks, the end result requires nothing like intense diets or surgery. Also, what's really interesting is that a majority of the participants tend to already be comfortable with their personal image and by going through the show, they start to become conscious of what others see as their visual flaws. So is it really their personal change to become more fashionable or others imposing their ideal look onto them?

Then again, TLC also had a show called "Miss America: Reality Check" in which the "standard" of femininity was being "revamped" through a reality show. So if even the most "beautiful" women in America need improvement physically and mentally, what does that mean for the rest of us?