At the time I am writing this exposition, I am just wrapping up viewing an episode of the acclaimed MTV reality show ‘Jersey Shore’ for the first time, and I have to say, I think I threw up in my mouth at what I just suffered through.
This is what countless friends of mine have become perplexed by and find to be entertainment.
The filming of shallow, pretentious fools has become the new big thing to our society.
Not caring enough to remember names, the men of the series are complete meatheads who focus on nothing but booze, girls and beefing up their bodies.
Seems simple, right?
It probably would be, except for a few small things (no, I’m not going to talk about how their $80 Affliction shirt was probably cheaper than their faux hawk haircut).
For one, these men are about as ignorant as one could ever possibly imagine (and arrogant to boot), and are more likely to punch you in the face than shake your hand. I wish
I had a pen and scratch paper to record how many times I heard derivatives of ‘bro,’ but I’m sure it was brotastically huge, brah.
Throw in the lamest tattoos you’ve ever seen on top of some of the sleaziest and creepiest behavior, and you’re one roofie away from a party.
The women, I’m sad to say, are about as pathetic as the men on this trash of a television show.
Baked enough to be your Thanksgiving dinner and dressed for the next ‘Girls Gone Wild’ video, the shallowness is top notch.
Scouring the beach for steroid-injected gorillas aptly named ‘juiceheads’, these women seem ready to sleep their way to the middle, and probably a fairly bad case of syphilis.
I’d love to see a parent’s reaction to seeing their daughter hook up with as many men as the high number of screwdrivers they had that evening at the club.
Popularizing a new acronym as annoying as the ever-preposterous ‘FML,’ ‘GTL’ (meaning Gym, Tan, Laundry from what I’ve been able to decipher) has given rise to a plethora of irritating tweets and Facebook statuses over the past several months as well, only giving rise to the success of this show.
So now I ask, why in the world do we succumb to this nonsense?
I know for a fact that many of you despise this aforementioned stereotype, and yet you’re allowing yourself to be entertained by the moronic antics of them.
Italian Americans, I know that the word ‘Guido’ is in fact a derogatory term, so why allow it to be an accepted vernacular for a pathetic representation of your heritage?
Those in the Ed Hardy apparel that doesn’t give much guessing to what your personal parts look like are probably already a little offended, as you should be.
All I’m trying to say is that it’s odd for someone to want to surround himself or herself with something they detest.
For example, I hate the Dave Matthews Band, so if you were to find his poster on my wall or his music on my iPod, it would be a little awkward, no?’
I understand that some things are just entertaining, and that the mass-media will feed us riveting things sometimes, but come on, let’s be just a little more intelligent.
We are better than this.
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