Brain Paste
At the gym today, people are still in the January phase and it's crowded as hell. The only treadmill I could get was in front of MTV. Nowhere else to look, nothing else in my eyesight....there I am, watching 4:30 - 5:30 central time MTV. I saw this. Then, astonishingly, I saw this, with Ashlee Simpson as the subject.
The crazy thing about these shows is this: The guys are truly an embarassment to their gender, offensively dumb and shallow. And the girls do not seem legitimately dumb. No. They really don't. But they act dumb, and they act sex crazed and slutty, and I can't speak for women but I'd be surprised if they aren't considered to be an embarassment to their gender as well. What's worse: being truly dumb and shallow, or just acting like it? No one really comes out good here. If it isn't clear, and if anyone is thinking of being offended by my thoughts on this, I encourage you to do two things: 1) believe that the dude I saw on the show was horrifying and horrifying (there is not a second word I can think of, and saying it once is not enough), and 2) watch the show so you understand what I'm trying to describe, so that you don't think I'm casting one gender above the other on the evolutionary food chain. Indeed I am not. Bottom feeders, each and every one of us who is 19 - 26.
Anyway, I was forced into watching this. And slowly, my brain dripped out of my head and landed on the treadmill, eventually ending up in a fine, mashed paste that used to contain the neurons that were previously watching the televised morons.
Hey, look, I watched J. Geils vids back in the day. And in 1992, I watched the first season of the Real World because I had a crush on the chick and it was in New York and I lived there and I was the same age. And throughout the 90s, I secretely watched the spring break shows because every now and then I got to see cute girls in bikinis. And I watched Remote Control because Kari Whurer was unbelievably hot (I recall being 19 at the time, can I have some slack on this?). So I've done the MTV as a targeted consumer bit. But something has changed, and it's probably me, but I'm thinking it isn't all me, and the part that isn't all me scares the crap out of me.
I'll tell you this, chicks didn't used to come up to guys whom they have never met and tell the guys on TV that they would drive them crazy until dawn, and guys didn't used to, 12 minutes after meeting a girl, suck lime juice out of her belly button. What. Is. Happening. What's next?
Do I want to know? Not sure.
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 7:37 PM
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Oh, T. It takes too long for me to download video, but no matter, I get the point. There are a couple of subjects raised here, but I seriously think you - or someone - should do a thesis on what makes people do what they do on TV - and also what it means that sexuality has come around to this GGW thing, because it's sort of understood that younger and younger girls are sort of presexual now - I'm not articulating myself well this am but I know you know what I mean, and having taught preschool six years ago already this was in full bloom then, four year-olds trying to dress "sexy" (and - SMART four year olds), anyway, to answer your questions, Ted, I don't know, but it upsets me just the same. Because it's not like we were raised in the dark ages. But I do sometimes wonder if some of it is just a function of generational changes. Each subsequent one doing things that shock the previous one. Which always makes me wonder - won't there be a point at which that becomes impossible? Oh those crazy kids these days, cutting off their hands! What will they do next?
dude. i JUST watched that 'my own ashlee simpson' thing YESTERDAY. in the second day of what is now a three day depression of not going to work and now probably getting fired.
however, yeah. i was like...hmm. this is wack. he's obsessed with ashlee simpson (eeeew), and now these girls are fine with trying to be another whole human being? like they're fine with trying to just be a carbon copy of someone else to help out this guy's fantasy?
WHA?
not as bad as the show where the people GOT PLASTIC SURGERY to look like someone else.
yet, i keep watching various shows on MTV when needing to have some mindnumbing substance other than weed. sigh. i hate myself.
I don't want to suck lime juice out of anyone's belly button.
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