The Unreal World

Since Survivor, reality has kept spiraling out of hand, taking mankind and exploiting its problems for other viewers enjoyments."Why woman on reality TV have to be blind desperate and dumb" can only further support this idea that reality tv isn't quite reality. We are all aware the celebrities have quite the impact on how people act in society, they look up to celebrities, wear their products, dress like them, and reality celebrities are no different. They get to serve as the temporary model representing the rest of their sex. For women in this case, their gender is being exploited as "blind, desperate and dumb" as well as selfish, catty, gold-digging whores just to name a few. What i found to be the worst part about this is that even when a woman challenges this stereotype, they are shot down for it. The article talked about the model on Tyra's show who was told that her intelligence was intimidating. It seems like reality TV is all about conforming imagery to something that no normal person is. Black women have been told to fix their hair, Asians to soften their eyes. Producers even use tactics to make everyone seem a bit different, like cutting off individuals from society and filling them with liquor to promote outrageous behavior that will support the stereotypes they fall into.
I had looked into the effects of reality television in the past and came by something that I thought was astonishing. I was reading a piece on how America is entertained by watching the suffering of other individuals, this source of entertainment was then compared back to when people didn't have radios or television, back to the days of ancient Rome and the Colosseum. It was speculated that America might be heading back in the direction of the gladiator death match. Think about it, as far as suffering goes, we get no better than the death of a fellow human being.