Kardashian Kraze

After watching the Kardashians today in class, I really started to think about the traits in a person that make them so appealing to the general public. I then started to become angry at the fact that they are so famous for really nothing at all. They are not good people doing good deeds around the world and got fame from it, they are rich spoiled girls (not women) who enjoy living the rich lifestyle of a celebrity. Although it is sad that people want to watch this families lives and that people actually paid to see Kim get married, it is even more sick that the Kardashians are willing to put themselves in fake situations and have a fake love life just to be famous. These people will never truly be happy because no one will ever truly want to be with them. Kim is the only one who truly banks on fame and money, the others just follow along and enjoy Kim's ride on fame. In ways they are celetoids because they continue to make publicity stunts such as sex tapes, having children, getting married and now even making money off of a divorce? It is unbelievable that our society supports this. She is not a celetoid or a celeactor, she is a pretty girl who made bank off of her looks and ridiculous actions. I am actually glad that people watch the show and I can admit that sometimes I do as well, but as most people sit there and watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians, they mock and make fun of the family and hopefully the Kardashians will one day learn that people are not laughing with them, they are laughing at them.

Tough Guys or Girls? American Horror Story

In a recent episode of the FX series American Horror Story, they look back at the first owners of the house the new family lives in. It was a doctor and his wife and their new born baby. Back in the times of the 1920's in which this family lived, men were supposed to be in charge and "wear the pants in the relationship" and it was even acceptable for the man to disrespect his wife. But in this case it was the complete opposite. The wife was extremely verbally abusive to the husband, constantly calling him names and mocking him, making him feel completely useless. This in turn lead to him having a serious drug problem. This women was pure evil and no one would do anything about it because the man was supposed to be the one in charge. We look at the roles men play when they are the bad guy but we rarely ever look into how women can be just as abuse, just not in a physical manner. Words can be just as harmful and lead to just as much pain as physical abuse and men are not the only ones to blame. Although it is more common for the man to be abusive we should not look past the fact that sometimes women can do just as much damage with their powerful words.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding: Grabbing

In the reality TV show, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, it is about Irish, English, and Scottish traveling gypsy's who get married very young and how their lives are much more than unusual. They get married around 16 or 17 years old and go on to move into trailers with their husbands and start a family. The man is always in charge and is the breadwinner in the family, the women's or should i say girls, responsibility is to get pregnant and take care of the "home". The young guys and girls begin to interactive at out age 13-15 years old. The one thing that truly disturbed me about this show was a typical ritual that these young kids deal with called "grabbing". It is when the boy grabs and almost hurts the girl, until the girl gives him a kiss. It is apart of their culture but at the same time it is just another example of how guys think they need to be strong and forceful to get respect and girls. In the show they interview the girls about the grabbing and many of them say they hate it and do not like it but they put up with the grabbing because that's how they find a mate. It is a sad and unfortunate event that goes on in the youth of the gypsy culture and one of the many reasons that men think they must have power and physical control in a relationship therefore allowing abuse in the relationship. Much like we saw today in Jackson Katz documentary that these types of ideas and practices that we have in different cultures are what leads to the problems we have in our gender war over power.

do you have to be hot to be famous ?

Last night I got very caught up in watching the show Why Am I Still Single? It is a show that helps single people become more attractive inside and outside to the opposite sex in order to find them a significant other. Although it seems as if the show helps these people be happy, I find it to be very fake and almost sad. The show has twins who restyle the awkward single and make them "hot" and the other part of the team help find people who can help these people break their bad dating habits by going on dates with them and pointing out flaws. In my eyes love is supposed to be the idea of loving someone for everything that they are, whether it be good or bad. After reading Beltran's article about J-Lo's butt helping her become famous, I realized that there is so much superficiality in our media that it is hard to get recognized unless you are attractive. In this show these people only started getting dates after they got a makeover and were now considered "sexy". As the article said J-lo got noticed one people saw her assets, if you will. It is confusing to me why people on TV must be attractive to get attention, when half of the population of Americans could barely be considered beauty queens. This type of media attention is what forces people to be insecure and want to change themselves. The real question is, are we being blinded by beauty and being tricked into thinking these people are talented because of looks?

Big Bang Theory

I had never watched The Big Bang Theory until the other night when one of my room mates had it on. I never chose to watch it because it seems annoying and cliche, and I was right. The show is about a bunch of "nerds" and their "hot" blonde room mate who happens to be a girl. They play so harshly on stereotypes in the show that it is hard to enjoy it or even take it remotely seriously. All of the dorky, nerdy room mates where glasses and un-stylish clothing. Aside for the stereotypical look that they are given, all of their interests are in things such as math, science, theories, and formulas. They have no sense of what to do when talking to girls or even other men who are not like them and it actually kind of sad. Not all people who are intelligent don't know how to dress of communicate with the outside world, the creators of the show bring it to an ultimate extreme to the point where the characters are unrelatable because they are trying so hard to be the vision of what people think of when they think of nerds. Aside from the male roles on the show, the females are no better. The blonde female room mate is everything you would expect out of the only blonde girl on the show. She is ditsy, clueless and the complete opposite of all the dorky men she lives with, yet some how they get along. This show is supposed to break from the norm and create a show with a slight hint of intellegance but instead it completely backs up every stereotype of smart people and how blonde girls are supposed to act. It is not witty or amusing, but more so insulting and overplayed. They need to downplay the roles so people can relate to them and not find them so irritating.

Workaholics: Hot Women in the Work Place

Tonight on the new episode of workaholics on comedy central, the episode was based around a new girl that comes to the work at the office. All the people in the office want to get to know her because she is a pretty blonde woman from Australia. As the episode progresses you see how the three main characters, Blake, Ders, and Adam treat this woman differently around the office because she is so beautiful. She suddenly becomes the most popular person in the office solely based off of her looks. There are so many scenes where they will focus in on her different body parts and there is even a scene where she trips and falls over and everyone refuses to help her up because her underwear is sticking out and all the guys do not want to stop looking. Even though I love this show and I found much of the episode very hilarious, it got to a point where it was almost obnoxious that they were treating this woman a certain way and even the woman in the office place were treating the pretty Aussie differently because of her looks. After what watching Private Practice today in class and seeing how woman were portrayed in that show and then watching a completely different genre and almost seeing them the same way, it's a little sad that so many shows play woman out to only be good for their looks. Although in Workaholics case it was for the purpose of humor and she was still a smart and sophisticated woman, even the fact that they just pay attention to her because she's pretty on her first day is a bad impression. They knew nothing about the woman and still they were fighting to be her boyfriend. I enjoy these types of shows but it does not help the stereotype that women have to be beautiful to be liked in the television world.

Dance Mom's

I've recently gotten very into a show called Dance Mom's, it is a show about these little girls who are trained for beauty pageants by this large miserable woman who treats the girls like they are 25 years old instead of 6 years old. Although this woman is terribly mean to these young girls the mothers do nothing about it and continue to let their children be treated like prisoners. I find this show interesting because these little 6 years old are taught very provocative dances where they look very inappropriate for their ages. I know that it is wrong of myself to be watching the show, but I watch it almost because I feel sorry for these little girls. This show teaches people that it is okay for their young children to be acting slutty and that its okay for parents to force their kids into these pageants and dance classes, even when it is obvious that these girls are completely uninterested and very upset by how their teacher treats them. She tells them that they "suck" and that they won't do anything with their lives if they don't do every dance step correctly. It is sickening that this show is even on television because it gives America an image that is disgusting and cruel. That is what entertainment has come to now a days on TV. As we saw in class last Thursday when we watched Real Housewives, people like to see other people upset and act ridiculous. I, myself watch the show because it breaks my heart and I feel for these young girls and I find myself talking with my friends during the show judging the dance teacher and the horrible mothers. It is strange what is now considered entertainment in our world and I find myself repulsed as well as intrigued by these heart wrenching shows. It makes me scared for what might come out next as a big TV series.

Latest Episode of Breaking Bad: Kelsi Rohrmann

While watching the latest epsiode of Breaking Bad on AMC I realized a lot of dominant ideologies that television shows put into their programs that follow the usual hegemony of the world we live in. In this episode they investige the spanish cartel and there are so many stereotypes put onto this group. Even though many people do know that any cartel is not something to be messed with but they show the men all doing drugs, drinking excessively, and have pretty women hanging all over them. Aside from this part in the episode the creators did a very unusual plot line, the other drug dealer in the show is actually a very well respected chemistry teacher who is white, lives in the suburbs and has a wonderful family, where even if they have their problems everything some how works out in the end of the day. We need TV shows like this to show both sides when it comes to ideologies and hegemony in our world because it lets viewers decide for themselves what they see these people as.