Reality TV Crap
Dec. 21st, 2009 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxAnyone else offended by the way that reality TV (well a lot of TV but in this particular case I'm talking about Survivor) glorifies misogynist assholes? I've found it truly appalling the way that Survivor has showcased its egregiously sexist asshole. Entertainment Weekly has host Jeff Probst doing a blog that has done nothing but praise and prop this misogynist troll. And today EW's recapper had a hissyfit because OMG the misogynist asshole got pwned! How dare they vote against the guy?! He's (supposedly) the most brilliant strategist ever for, y'know, having people around him vote in their own self interest.
It truly bothers me that the show relentlessly propped this asshole, that EW relentlessly propped this asshole, and to read all the comments on EW and on TWOP defending this misogynist asshole. I particularly 'like' the folks who post "We don't know he's a misogynist". Oh, really? The fact that he goes around calling every female contestant a "dumbass bitch" isn't a clue? The fact that he sat bragging how he'd beat that 'useless little girl' to an adult woman's face and discounting her so much that he said to her face that the best man would win when it was just him, another guy, and her. Because, it was inconceivable to him that a woman even stood a freaking chance against his Machiavellian awesomeness. The fact that today he's done multiple post-show interviews whining, pouting, and being a blatant asshole about how the "blonde bitch" beat him isn't a clue? (And yes. In a press interview he called her a 'blonde bitch')The fact that he sits on Good Morning America saying that she didn't deserve her win, isn't a clue? The fact that he was so STUPID that he thought that openly targeting every woman that his tiny penis was threatened by, ousting them and GLOATING over having manipulated 'the dumbass bitches' and giving self-congratulatory speeches about how he was so much more intelligent than "dumbass bitches" isn't a freaking clue?
He was so blinded by his misogyny that he could not IMAGINE that gloating about ousting and manipulating "dumbass bitches" might be a bad strategy and that maybe, just maybe they wouldn't vote on him to win a million dollars and instead give it to the last standing dumbass bitch. And he was shocked and offended by this outcome because OMG the jury wasn't fair! Or objective! Because he ran the best game strategy ever!!!11!! CBS, Survivor, and EW actually likes to play this as the most valid POV without pointing out -- he was a sexist asshole that lost the freaking vote because... he was an obnoxious sexist asshole! How was that 'great strategy'?
And it bothers me. It really does, that so many commentors on TWOP and EW are willing to just go "well maybe he isn't really a sexist jerk". Really? What does it take? Being smacked in the face? The guy constantly refers to women as "dumbass bitches" both in show and in post-show interviews. How is it not obvious that this is a misogynist pig?
It truly bothers me that the show relentlessly propped this asshole, that EW relentlessly propped this asshole, and to read all the comments on EW and on TWOP defending this misogynist asshole. I particularly 'like' the folks who post "We don't know he's a misogynist". Oh, really? The fact that he goes around calling every female contestant a "dumbass bitch" isn't a clue? The fact that he sat bragging how he'd beat that 'useless little girl' to an adult woman's face and discounting her so much that he said to her face that the best man would win when it was just him, another guy, and her. Because, it was inconceivable to him that a woman even stood a freaking chance against his Machiavellian awesomeness. The fact that today he's done multiple post-show interviews whining, pouting, and being a blatant asshole about how the "blonde bitch" beat him isn't a clue? (And yes. In a press interview he called her a 'blonde bitch')The fact that he sits on Good Morning America saying that she didn't deserve her win, isn't a clue? The fact that he was so STUPID that he thought that openly targeting every woman that his tiny penis was threatened by, ousting them and GLOATING over having manipulated 'the dumbass bitches' and giving self-congratulatory speeches about how he was so much more intelligent than "dumbass bitches" isn't a freaking clue?
He was so blinded by his misogyny that he could not IMAGINE that gloating about ousting and manipulating "dumbass bitches" might be a bad strategy and that maybe, just maybe they wouldn't vote on him to win a million dollars and instead give it to the last standing dumbass bitch. And he was shocked and offended by this outcome because OMG the jury wasn't fair! Or objective! Because he ran the best game strategy ever!!!11!! CBS, Survivor, and EW actually likes to play this as the most valid POV without pointing out -- he was a sexist asshole that lost the freaking vote because... he was an obnoxious sexist asshole! How was that 'great strategy'?
And it bothers me. It really does, that so many commentors on TWOP and EW are willing to just go "well maybe he isn't really a sexist jerk". Really? What does it take? Being smacked in the face? The guy constantly refers to women as "dumbass bitches" both in show and in post-show interviews. How is it not obvious that this is a misogynist pig?
