After the onslaught of news reports and news feeds about "Jersey Shore", MTV's most controversial show since Beavis and Butthead, I decided to see if the show was as terrible as many people are making it out to be.
My brain lasted ten seconds. My disdain might last a lifetime.
The show, which is pretty much The Real World with Italians, puts eight housemates together on the Jersey Shore, where they are do odd jobs, such as selling t-shirts while partying up a storm. The housemates pride themselves on their Italian heritage, but they do so by constantly repeating a word that I refuse to repeat here out of respect to those who find it offensive. I found it offensive and I'm not even Italian!
[Clarissa: I'm Italian, so I'll say it. At no point have I ever heard an Italian male in Canada refer to themselves as a "Guido". "Gino" yes, but never "Guido". So unless this is some stupid new word that these guys are making up, then I have no idea what the heck they're talking about. I also have several male cousins in the age range of the people on this show. If they ever behaved like this - nevermind on national television - my grandmother herself would beat them silly. So let's please not take them as a representation of Italian culture].
They also love to show off their bodies and tans and hair product...and this is from the guys. When one guy says that girls flock to him like flies to a pile of crap, I couldn't help but think that he doesn't know how much that analogy befits him to a "T". The constant barrage of Italian stereotypes (the house has posters of movies like Scarface and Carlito's Way all throughout the house) and overt sexuality is like a sugar rush to a diabetic. It's demeaning and sad, and I wonder if the cast members are even phased by all the negative attention.
Domino's Pizza and American Family Insurance have pulled ads from the show, while more are expected to follow. UNICO, the prominent Italian American service organization in the nation, has called for a complete boycott of the show. The show's producer, Tony DiSanto (an Italian-American) is flabbergasted by the backlash that the show is getting, he tells TV Guide. "To be 100 percent honest, no, even as an Italian-American," DiSanto states. "[...]It never crossed my mind this would be offensive."
Um... Really?! Stereotypes tend to do that, man.
But the funny thing is that while all of the negative attention is kind of warranted, I really can't blame DiSanto (or MTV) for what they produced. Why? Because it was bound to happen due to the constant rise in people looking and worshipping the next reality show and/or TV star. When I wrote a piece on the decline in soap operas, I was shocked to come across a comment that people consider reality TV the new "soap opera" and would rather watch Vinny D flexing than anything scripted show on daytime TV. The problem is that most of the reality shows are scripted to a sense and are not in fact "reality", but this is what society wants and the networks provide what is in demand.
So is Jersey Shore completely inane? Of course. But it's what America wants at the moment and the old saying goes: "Be Careful What You Wish For... You Might Just Get It."
Source: TV Guide
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