Comments on: MTV: Sex, Drugs, and (almost no) Rock and Roll… FOR KIDS! (Part 3)

By: Immir

Immir — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:50:38 +0000

People really do forget how impressionable teens are. I’ve only just stopped being one, really- & I’ll admit it. I was an inpressionable dick.

By: Tigress Luv

Tigress Luv — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:44:58 +0000

You rock! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Our poor, young adults of today have this ‘reality’ shit as a measure of how they should think and be. Too sad!

By: Imaginary

Imaginary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:19:14 +0000

I truly hate shit like this. I tried to be honest for a very long time, I really did. I was hardcore into feminism while I was 13 and 14, and then I just decided “fuck it” and wanted to kill myself. I still do, but now I’m trying to get back to my radfem roots if you can call them that, even though the only way I make it through the day is to tell lies about everything I see, repress myself, and manipulate others. Great life MTV; it’s brilliant.

By: isme

isme — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:19:41 +0000

Um…you watched 3 hours of this? I mean, sure, people tend to have a morbid fascination with watching footage of racing cars crash into each other and so on, and will sit through one or two slow motion replays, but 3 hours seems like an awfully long time to watch something you know is going to make you unhappy with your eyeballs.

By: Nine Deuce

Nine Deuce — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:09:47 +0000

I agree that it was sad, but the girl wasn’t right asking her mom to hide her intelligence from the dude. I’m of the opinion that any dude who doesn’t like smart women is a dumb asshole. I’m usually right about that.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:33:55 +0000

“Her mother made a point of mentioning the fact that the girl had an abnormally high IQ and was an academic genius, but the girl asked that her mother not mention that to the date.”

This made me sad.

“Then he told the mother of the smarty-pants he wouldn’t be dating her daughter because all that reading sounded a little too dorky.”

This made me sadder because it suggests the contestant was right to ask her mother not to mention that she was smart. If someone ever made me choose between him and books, I’d dump his ass and then write a novel about it. It’d be a bestseller.

By: Screaming Lemur

Screaming Lemur — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:50:58 +0000

I think I just threw up a little. Not terribly articulate, but accurate. ND, that was painful but fascinating to read, and ye gods I hope you're taking some recovery time after watching all that garbage. (My palliative of choice is usually cartoons- at least I know they're supposed to be stupid.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:13:21 +0000

Y’see, as far as dating goes, I tend to go for people who are smart/talented in ways which I am not. I’m linguistically gifted, my boyfriend is mathematically gifted. I know a lot about cars, have a natural sense of direction…and my boyfriend can keep children entertained for hours. Et cetera. Now, wouldn’t it make sense for someone who doesn’t himself enjoy reading to want to date someone who does? Make up for his deficiency? I mean, sex appeal is nice but it’s not the only thing you need to have a good relationship.

Or maybe I’m the one who’s screwy.

By: Chai Latte

Chai Latte — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:28:13 +0000

Just when I thought we couldn’t sink any lower than “Real World”. (Yep, that’s how long it’s been since I last watched MTV. Thank you, Carson Daly, for driving me away!)

Seriously, I owe Carson. Nine, thank you for your sacrifice. It was worth it to read your commentary!

UGH. Smart girls aren’t sexy? Good to know. Now let me go home, where I live alone except for my nine billion cats.

And yet? Still preferable to dating Mr. “Reading is too dorky”.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:06:58 +0000

What’s great about these shows is the excellent mocking fodder they provide. What scares me though, is that people like your commentators and you and I are fairly rare. I hope I’m not being overly pessimistic when I say that the target audience, teenagers, don’t have the same kind of bullshit detector that would allow them to realize that MTV is totally lame. My mother, horror of horrors, loves to watch shows like these. She, of course, falls into the easy trap of viciously mocking the participants of the show. The only show I’ve seen her visibly upset with the creators is that horrible “To Tell the Truth” thing where they make mostly women confess that they think their husband is fat with lie detectors for money. Thank you FOX.

Shows like this are horrible. Firstly, if you are malleable, you internalize the messages. Don’t be fat. Be promiscuous. Gays are weird, lol. Et cetera. If you’re a bit smarter, like my mom, then you probably sit on the couch and viciously mock every poor shlub who gets hooked into doing these shows. The second group thinks very highly of themselves and their intelligence, and continues to engage in “body sharking” on a regular basis. So and so is a fat pig. So and so has a weird chin. Basically, programming like this (and it’s not just MTV, unfortunately) creates two kinds of people: culturally indoctrinated, and pedantic narcissistic asshats.