It's About Freedom of CHOICE!

Published on May 2, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In Current Events

In a recent article, one blogger derided those who watch "desperate housewives".

Now don't get me wrong, I don't watch the show. In fact, when given the choice last night to watch Rosie O'Donnell as a retard or "desperate housewives", I reached into my cheesy film vault for a 1973 cheesy vampire movie starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and featuring the best wardrobe since "Starsky & Hutch".

But the point is, I HAD that choice. And I MADE that choice.

"Desperate Housewives" is among those shows on television that has ZERO appeal to me; I watched one show early on just to see if it was as distasteful as I thought it would be (it was), and haven't watched the show since. But for those who do watch it, for whatever reasons, I would not begin to suggest that I take away from your freedom of choice. As long as you don't take away my cheesy movies, I'll stay away from your TV choices, deal?

Aaaah, it's great to be an American!

Comments (Page 2)

bakerstreet

on May 02, 2005

Television isn't a sickness, it is a symptom. If people didn't watch the ignorant filth, it wouldn't last past the pilot episode. The slogging, robotic water-cooler drones have to have something to twitter about, and they seem to pick stuff on their level.

The problem is these brainless zombies make every decision based upon hype, and what Entertainment Tonight tells them is good.

Ionolast

on May 02, 2005

The slogging, robotic water-cooler drones have to have something to twitter about, and they seem to pick stuff on their level.

Then apparantely their level has dropped considerably in the last several years. Shows like Fear Factor, Survivor, the one with Shannen Doherty in which people are exposed to phony dangerous situations, etc. The decline of shows which stimulate the imagination. It's TV. How real can a reality show be?
And that damn gossip monger Joan Rivers.

bakerstreet

on May 02, 2005

"It's TV. How real can a reality show be?"

If many of the people who go on these shows tell the truth, not very real at all. I really don't think the viewing public would tolerate REAL reality TV, beyond Cops and all the "World's Most" video shows that seem to draw the rubberneckers with no energy to go and seek out real tragedy to witness.

People make fun of star wars/trek nerds, but damn, at the very least they look forward with a speculative, even positive eye. "Cool" seems to be watching the people you most hate in society eat bugs for cash. I'd just as soon be a nerd.

Ionolast

on May 03, 2005

Just guessing, but I guess reality shows are cheaper to produce because they don't have actors. Or scripts. Or do they? Cutbacks to reduce cost are happening everywhere.

Dr Guy

on May 03, 2005

'Course I watched Friends for 10 years, so I'm hopeless.

There is a 10 step program for people like you!

Gideon MacLeish

on May 03, 2005

Why aren't you posting this on her article?

I did post a response in this general direction on her article. I posted this separately as well, because it addresses the larger point of the push to censorship that seems so prevalent in today's society.

On JU alone, I am becoming VERY concerned with the number of "ban" blogs that have been produced. These opinions are fine, except they ignore some of the basic tenets upon which our country was founded.

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