Although I am a little ashamed to say it, I am an avid Jersey Shore fan!Live for it, eat it, breathe it, sleep it and most importantly watch it! It has got me hooked! I argue that it's not for the wrong reasons though. In fact it is teaching me exactly how not to live my life. Come on, Snooki sleeping with pretty much every body in the house, all the fist fights that occur in the house, with Pauly D always looking innocent no matter what he does (it must have something to do with his amazing body), whether he's using a woman for sexual gain or in a fight with anyone. Although I have to admit that Angelina is quite a piece of work for fighting a mute man. At least she got him to talk, we had never seen him so angry before and quite honestly it didn't suit him. Let's just say that Pauly is the kind of person that can get away with just being handsome, he doesn't need to open his mouth, there's enough of that already in the house.
But let's not get side tracked, Jersey Shore has to be the lamest excuse for a reality TV show, and do you know what, in our society, it works! It's comforting to know that no matter how screwed up you may think you are, you can't compare to the J.S peeps! Mike, at the age of 28, living with a bunch of kids, using women like objects, and partying like a kid who's just turned eighteen! Must be some sort of inferiority complex.
The Jersey Shore cast!Poor kids, didn't their mothers ever teach them self respect. Not to point any fingers and cast the first stone, but hello it's INTERNATIONAL television! What the hell were you thinking! Doesn't looking at those clips wanna make you sick when you see ...uhum...Mike, how badly you treat women, it's called harrassment just by the way, or Sammy, I'm sorry but Ronnie cheated on you. In the real world that means you break up with the guy, and stop letting the rest of the world suffer for your insecurities!
Enough ranting and raving though, I think it would make me look like a hypocrite for watching it, but as I'm sure most people will agree with me, watching Jersey Shore is a great life lesson. They should include it as part of the Life Orientation syllabus in school and call it "How not to live your life".
Dear Samkelisiwe:
ReplyDeleteI thought you might be amused by this anecdote. On Monday evening after work, my fiancée, who is from Spain, and I sat on our couch and turned the TV on. 'Jersey Shore' appeared. She'd never seen it and asked me, "Is this real? Are there really people like this? What would people overseas think?"
Meanwhile, using my laptop, I'd noticed that someone new was following me on Twitter. It was you. On your Twitter profile, I saw the link to your blog, clicked it, and saw your posting about 'Jersey Shore.' We laughed. We now know, at least, what one person overseas thinks! We got a big kick out of what you wrote!
And we entirely agree with your posting. What were they thinking when they commissioned this reality series?! I guess SABC or MNet is broadcasting it?
These 'Jersey Shore' folks do exists. Indeed, there are several million of them living along the Atlantic shore south of New York City. Yet fortunately not all of the state of New Jersey nor the New York metropolitan area is like that. They are an Italian-American tribe who account for less than one percent of the U.S. population.
By the way, thanks for following me on Twitter. I hope to make it worth your time.
Cheers,
Prof. Vin Crosbie
Syracuse, New York, USA