Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Blog Post for December 2-8


Over thanksgiving break I came across an article that outlines these tweets from a guy named Elan Gale about his Thanksgiving plane ride.  He goes on a back and forth fight with this woman named “Diane” and he documents the whole thing via twitter.  I read it and I thought it was funny.  Diane was being rude and obnoxious about the flight being delayed and not being able to spend Thanksgiving with her family.  He spends his entire flight being snippy with her and being kind of rude.  After that I found out the whole thing was fake and I came across this article.  


He is a reality tv producer who made it up for entertainment.  This article pointed out something I was not thinking about while I was laughing, “what’s reality TV but endless humiliation of women so distorted by editing as to be basically fictitious versions of themselves.”  I think this has defiantly impacted how I view reality TV.

2 comments:

  1. I definitely agree with you! These producers edit things so much to the point where all the human aspects of people are not shown and instead these people are fake terrible versions of themselves.

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  2. They are absolutely right! Reality tv is all about the humiliation of women. I never even realized that.

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