I have actually seen a couple of episode the show. The show is standard fare for MTV. I don’t find anything particularly titillating about it.
It’s sort of like “The Bachelor” with a twist. There a lot of young women in skimpy bating suits and women do make out with each other, but to the typical MTV viewer, it’s nothing new. I cannot be manipulated in watching it because it is kind of boring with all of the childish behavior.
My only complaint about the criticism of the show, it that it is no worse or better than what has already been shown on MTV.
The “Real world Vegas” was worse than this. Would I want or let my 11 year old niece watch this show, no I wouldn’t.
I think this is the problem. Kids think nothing of this behavior. They should. We should. susie
The sad part of "reality" TV is that it creates its own "reality" by convincing the confused that this is something other than scripted hype. I say "the confused" because puberty is a temporary insanity all its own.
Young viewers start believing what they watch is reality, their expectations shift to conform with the new mass broadcast "reality" and another impressionable group is manipulated into believing they are behaving normally--unless it is pointed out that these are actors, and this just is not real, nor is it desireable.
The kids who will lose worst are the ones whose parents won't ban or decry this crap.
No MTV allowed in my house.
Because, you assert such filth only may have a negative effect on the individual who watches it.
Yours is the classic "Just Turn The TV Off" if you don't like it argument.
The problem is, whether or not we who do not want this stuff rammed down our throats do elect to turn it off, "it still POLLUTES, it still CHANGES the larger sociological and moral society around us which we still have to live in" which we then have NO choice over.
There is erosive effect on the popular society at large--take a walk through a mall some time. Read the statistics, too, on teens today.
It is not as simple or easy as a non-complex, libertarian personal decision as you seem to outline.