I feel as though Jennifer Pozner is stereotyping reality TV as she is discussing the flaws in this form of entertainment thus making her article a very hypocritical statement. Now I am not saying in anyway that reality TV as a whole is quality television, but not all of it is degrading women and creating this “unreal world” she speaks of. There are those cases in which we see the evil in our society; however, this is not true for all reality TV. The idea of a reality show is to be entertaining and in most ways they succeed in that. The amount of women that watch these reality shows would not be there if they felt as though they were being bashed. The fact is that our society loves to see chaos and people in trouble. Show such as the ones she speaks is exactly what people want to watch and like I said they definitely entertain most of the viewers that watch them.
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Kev- Interesting comments on reading. You bring up an important point - that of critic vs. audience. You critique the writer's assumption that the audience tends have a sheep mentality... there's a supposition in her essay that people, and specifically women, don't really know what's good for them. Your point of view supposes that the audience is instead, quite aware that these shows have little to do with reality and therefore can easily detach from representation.
Nice job.
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