Sunday, October 16, 2005

Generation IPod Part Deux

I haven't broached the subject of my favorite fuck up generation in a while, so let me please digress- I tried. I really did. I figured maybe I was being unfair, I thought maybe not everyone is a helmet wielding retard. And I did pretty well. Until Friday.
See, I don't watch MTV. The only way anybody could ever get me to watch it would be to pin my eyes open and tie me to a chair in a Clockwork Orange fashion. But I have a friend who does, and she told me a whopper that still has my head whirling.
There's a show called "Made." Maybe you've heard of it- people (mostly girls) go under the knife so they can look like their favorite celebrities. They also get new clothes, new hair, and training to be as similar as you can get. For example, if you wanted to be Serena Williams, you would get her hairstyle, her clothes and makeup, and train at tennis. You also can get plastic surgery, which is the part that whigs me the most.
So there's this girl, and she's been living with this guy for 2 years. She is absolutely gorgeous. The guy she's been living with won't officially date her because she doesn't look like Carmen Electra. She "isn't perfect yet" (His words.)
And instead of telling this.........this, this dude I have no words for to go fuck himself what does she do?
She decides to become Carmen Electra. So she has plastic surgery on her already beautiful face, and liposuctions the non-existent fat out of her thighs.
And now the guy will date her, saying "she's finally perfect!"
Happily ever after.
Okay, I've said it once, and I will say it again:
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU MORONS!!!!!
Does anybody else see the problem with this? And who are you idiots who watch this shit enough to keep it on the air?
I'm normally all about the free speech. But this is simply ridiculous. I just want to say that it will not be the violent video games, or the sex in movies and TV that will ruin the generation, it will be shit like this. A TV show that advocates to young girls not only that you are not good enough, but that the guy you want doesn't think you are good enough either. Don't you think we chicks have enough problems already?
This is just going to fuck some minds up in a serious way. Who lets their kids watch this crap? And who the hell came up with it? Let's do a show where we change kids into mini celebrity look-a-likes, sometimes permanently, and for what? So we can teach them that the only thing that matters is how you look? Did a woman come up with this? I hate to think that, but guys just aren't that smart by nature. I oughta track this woman down and lipo her brain. What the fuck are you thinking?
That episode just shocked the hell out of me. It still does, because what kind of self esteem would it take to do that to yourself simply so the guy you like will finally date you? What kind of self esteem does it take to watch that show and silently agree with what happened? It's unbelievable to me, because we would never see a show where a guy gets surgery to look like Orlando Bloom simply because his girlfriend doesn't think he's "perfect." This, to me, exposes serious flaws in the way we are looking at things. What's important to us? The clothes we wear and the things we own and the way we all look? Is that really all we're going on here? Because if we are, then I need a new generation.