For those of you who are not familiar with this show, TV Land is hopping the Fucking Stupid Reality Show bandwagon and creating their own lil' dating game. Or, rather, ol' dating game. Vivica A. Fox hosts this average dating show, with the additional SURPRISE element of a plethora of young men, pining for the MILF action of the Cougar.
With the ridiculous amount of problems in this scenario, we'd best get cracking.
1. The most blatantly obvious...
What's with the completely unadulterated AGEISM here?? Creating this show specifically revolving around an older woman (by which I mean not in her 20's and fresh out of her 30's at the ripe age of 40), it assumes that this is an activity that is worthy of noting, which assumes that it is out of the ordinary.
2. The double standard...
As also pointed out by Bust, our TV Guides are adorned with a crazy number of reality dating shows featuring in a similar age range, if not older, than the "Cougar" (who will from here on out be paid enough respect to be called by her name, Stacey.) We've got Flava Flav in Flavor of Love (all 300 seasons, not to mention his show Strange Love, documenting his romantic stint with actor Brigitte Nielsen), Bret Michaels in Rock of Love, Hugh Hefner in The Girls Next Door, and more. So if these shows air with no mention in title OR in content of the age of the male subjects, why now?
3. Vivica...
WHY, Vivica? I thought we had something.
4. Another one bites the dust...
How long can a TV network stay pure in its intentions before sponsors take over and drain it of its substance? There was MTV, originally created to bring attention to up and coming artists, with a strong focus on indie musicians. Now, loaded with middriffs and noobs, MTV does a beautiful job of defining femininity and masculinity for all of us on the absolute most shallow and humiliating of levels. There was Nickelodeon, which was excellent until about 2 weeks ago when they started voluntarily airing Burger King's SpongeBob SquareButts 99 cent kid's meal commercial ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMZ62PsvRM ). And then TV LAND! I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, I switched on TV Land to watch late night episodes of Sanford and Son and watch cast reunions of Happy Days, not watch drooling hornballs crawl after a woman.
So, what the hell is this shit?
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