Never really thought of Jersey Shore and other trash reality TV this way
Why shouldn’t kids watch reality TV? Because kids need better role models, right? But that’s assuming kids are stupid.
This from the New York Times on reasons to like MTV’s over-stereotyped Italian-American reality show, Jersey Shore:
3. YOUNG PEOPLE NEED BAD EXAMPLES. Too many children today are reaching their teenage years armed only with a Disney definition of “bad person”: it’s someone who talks cattily about your wardrobe behind your back, maybe copies a few answers off your math quiz.
They have no idea how much ignorance, narcissism, predatory sexism and hair-gel abuse lurk out there in the real world. Unless they watch “Jersey Shore.” From that perspective the show is a sort of public service.
This is the kind of thought that would never occur to most parents. Instead, they would exhort their kids, “Why are you watching this garbage?”
