Starting Over: Damn right we need that!
July 13, 2005
As if our local production is not enough we decided to import this garbage called Reality TV from the west. The latest show is called Starting Over in which a constantly changing group of women who were experiencing some psychological and social problems and joined the program in order to start their lives all over again after getting rid of all the problems they used to have. In the show you’ll see them crying every episode for the lamest reasons ever, most of the times trying to show their best performance on the camera, sometimes its the mere thought that they are women and hence they HAVE to be sensitive and delicate just for the heck of it. On many occasions you’ll see them fighting! arguing about the un-arguable, blabblering about whatever and disagreeing with each other also for the heck of it. After watching the series many men started to wonder if this is what women are all about, cat fight and weeping.
I can’t grasp the idea of this show, Interviewing those women every episode and asking them to talk about the other women which is an indirect invitation to back-stab them is freaky. Video taping them all the time (or most of the time) specially in awkward moments is disgusting as well as degrading to those women. If the intention behind this stupid show is to help those women they could have helped them without making them sound like monkies in a cage, without abusing them and taking advantage of their problems.
However, I don’t blame mbc I blame those women and their families for allowing such thing to happen. Its an insult not only to those women but to all the women of the Arab World. I can’t believe we’re going down, blindly mimicking American Reality Shows which are ironically attacked and rejected by many people outhere who consider themselves conservative, who believe that their lives and their privacy are more valubale than that. Even by ethical codes abusing people like that is not acceptable!
So…whats next?
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