Real World, Road Rules: Bullshit….

Okay, so we’re Reality TV whores junkies here at The Propaganda Sifter. Admittedly, we are more than slightly addicted to the king of all reality programs: The Real World. Face it: the show is teh roxxors! But for god’s sake, what’s with all the frickin’ propaganda?

• For one thing, are we to believe all minorities in the Real World are problematic, like just about every black male that’s ever been on the show?

• Do Asian, Arabic, or Latino males even exist in the real world? Okay, brownie points for putting Jose on the upcoming Key West show. $20 say his roommates call the migra on him before the show is over. But seriously, we know there’s a cool Asian dude out there with manga hair just waiting to represent — Note to producers: we’ll give you Lee’s number if you have the balls to call us. Kanye West shoulda told it like it is: MTV don’t like colored people!

• This season promises to be sexed up to the extreme. All the previews show the girls clad in little more than random flossy bikinis, with the guys all running around shirtless. Our question is: why hasn’t this been moved to a more adult network, where the production doesn’t have to walk the fine line between virginal MTV watchers and the whorishness of its much older audience — people who actually watch the show? We’d definitely tune in to the Skinamax version. Jisela, you whore (NSFW)! We love you, but we’re still pissed how you dissed our homeboy, Malik, on the New York show!

• No fatties? (Okay, Beth doesn’t count, she’s just big-boned) No differently-abled folks? (Alcoholism may be a disease, but it’s not a handicap — got that Derrick?) No poor, white trash with meth problems? Um, nevermind….

• Exploitation seems to be the order of the day down at MTV. Which begs the question: are we all nothing more than C-level micro-celebrities in our own docu-dramas, there for nothing more than good ratings? Maybe we’ll luck out and get to front our own exercise show once the season’s over? Pass the crunk juice and vicodin, the new season’s startin!

~ by Noir on December 11, 2005.