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This reality show is wrong on every possible level (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Jun 2012 OP
The term "reality show" accomplishes "wrong on every possible level" all by itself. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #1
This is cruel and insane. n/t Ian David Jun 2012 #2
You have got to be kidding me... zeemike Jun 2012 #3
Straight marriage is destroying America. Bucky Jun 2012 #4
LOL! Politicalboi Jun 2012 #5
100 likes, 2,730 dislikes - priceless! alp227 Jun 2012 #6
Reality TV hits a new low. WhoIsNumberNone Jun 2012 #7
And of course, it tells women (always women) "You're not pretty enough". SwissTony Jun 2012 #10
AKA "Bride Frankenstein" longship Jun 2012 #8
The first thing those women need is psychiatric help. Then only some of them needed RC Jun 2012 #9
TV for the stupid. L0oniX Jun 2012 #11
LOL - this is season two OKNancy Jun 2012 #12
As a woman... WinstonSmith4740 Jun 2012 #13
Very sad. mlevans Jun 2012 #14
Indeed. I call it "video velocitizing" RufusTFirefly Jun 2012 #15
one of the main reasons I dumped cable Skittles Jun 2012 #18
More of the war on women Bozvotros Jun 2012 #16
I love this comment: "When aliens invade and start killing the human race, and we cry out, 'Why?' HomerRamone Jun 2012 #17
LOL above post! 90-percent Jun 2012 #19

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
7. Reality TV hits a new low.
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 03:54 PM
Jun 2012

Of course there is no bottom, but this one comes as close to it as any have dared.

To me it is more shocking that there is an audience for this show than the fact that it was made.

More proof that we are doomed. The Romans had gladiatorial games, we watch pudgy women fight over plastic surgery. It's when you know the empire's in decline...

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
10. And of course, it tells women (always women) "You're not pretty enough".
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 05:17 PM
Jun 2012

Yes, ladies, starve, put your fingers down your throats, get surgery, use botox....

I sincerely wish we could get away with this fascination with some artificial and unobtainable definition of "beauty". Over-importance on the physical, nothing on the intellectual side.

And it's getting worse.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
9. The first thing those women need is psychiatric help. Then only some of them needed
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 04:28 PM
Jun 2012

a diet and some exercise. As far as I could tell, all were fairly good looking, or at least better than average. Looks was not a problem with any of them. So,

WinstonSmith4740

(3,056 posts)
13. As a woman...
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 05:46 PM
Jun 2012

I have to ask. Why, oh why do the men these nut cases are engaged to go through with the wedding? If these women are too stupid to realize that the man they're marrying fell in love with THEM, not some idealized version of who they think they need to be, they don't deserve them. My unsolicited advice to those men is, run!! Get out while you can! If she's that bat-shit crazy now, it's not going to get any better.

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)
15. Indeed. I call it "video velocitizing"
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 07:33 PM
Jun 2012

The phenomenon wherein you don't fully realize just how fast you are speeding toward stupid.

Bozvotros

(785 posts)
16. More of the war on women
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:30 PM
Jun 2012

This show, the Housewives of Whereever, Bridezilla, Mob Wives, the insipidly shallow Kardashians Klan, Bad Girl Club etc etc are all sending the message that it is OK, normal, even attractive for women to be vain, vindictive, selfish, hateful and narcissistic. Jerry Springer started this trend by trapping ignorant, violent and often physically hideous people on a public stage and poking them with sharp rhetorical sticks until they cracked and attacked someone. He was however an equal opportunity huckster who brought the carnival spotlight on both sick men and sick women. Now the trend is to just focus on attractive women who are willing to strut their psychopathy. The men in their lives are basically there to give the women someone to hurt and the audience someone to pity or scorn. This stuff is mainstream femdom pornography. But it sure as hell is popular these days.

HomerRamone

(1,112 posts)
17. I love this comment: "When aliens invade and start killing the human race, and we cry out, 'Why?'
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:31 PM
Jun 2012

they're just going to point to this show, and we'll all nod and quietly say, 'Carry on, then.'"

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